Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)
19-12-2020, 22:30
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Oh Lanky Lanky.
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Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)
Two weeks in and both of our V6 boxes are working fine on 360. 
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20-12-2020, 00:44
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#452
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Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)
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Originally Posted by KillerCroc1
Got the 360 remote today the upgrade was as simple as you could imagine the remote is fantastic the new UI is impressive and super quick I'm surprised the voice feature understands Scottish �� V6 box now updated to virgin 360 can't complain
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There's many types of Scottish... I'd have said I'll judge it based on my dulcet tones, but I have no intention of using voice controls. 
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20-12-2020, 08:32
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#453
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Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)
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Originally Posted by cheekyangus
There's many types of Scottish... I'd have said I'll judge it based on my dulcet tones, but I have no intention of using voice controls. |
You'll have to try it at least once to see if this happens
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/new...ockney-accent/
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20-12-2020, 10:18
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#454
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Oh Lanky Lanky.
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Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)
It’s a quicker way of turning subtitles on instead of needing 3 or 4 button presses. 
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20-12-2020, 10:43
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Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
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Originally Posted by iadom
It’s a quicker way of turning subtitles on instead of needing 3 or 4 button presses. |
I'm really stubborn when it comes to certain things. Even several button presses ain't going to put me off making it "simpler".
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21-12-2020, 00:38
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#456
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Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)
Can anyone answer what virgin 360 actually is? Is it new software or is it these little v6 boxes which i dont want?
I currently have 3 v6s in my house and i dont want to give them up for mini boxes which leach off the main box.
So my question is....is the whole mini v6s virgin 360 or is the new software on these boxes what is called "virgin 360"?
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21-12-2020, 00:51
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Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)
The new TV 360 boxes are just V6 boxes with the new software I have the V6 updated to virgin 360 had to get the remote to upgrade though the remote is miles better than that peanut thing the UI is what virgin TV needs it is a welcomed change I can't complain about the update at all
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21-12-2020, 10:03
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#458
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Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)
If you look closely at your original V6 boxes it is actually in 2 halves with a thin line around the middle. The mini boxes are essentially just the top half only of the original V6 box with the bottom half removed which contains the hard drive. The idea being that the mini "slave" box receives its recordings and info from the main fully intact box with no need or use of its own hard drive. This system is called TV360 with the new Horizon software on new Humax manufactured boxes.
The alternative system, which is in trial only, is that you keep your original intact 2 or 3 Arris manufactured V6 boxes with the original hard drives on all your boxes still and the 360 Horizon firmware is downloaded to your boxes which are then reformatted replacing the Tivo software, but you retain all your hard drives. However, there is currently compatibility bugs in this trialled system at the moment between the Arris only boxes and the latest 360 (4.28 software) update version. This will be ironed out eventually.
The 360 / Horizon system that's in use in the rest of the European market by the other Liberty Global brands, including UPC, don't even use hard drives at all, as everything is recorded directly to the cloud instead. I guess this might be the ultimate goal here, although a very long way off yet.
Last edited by fox35; 21-12-2020 at 10:35.
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21-12-2020, 19:18
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Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)
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Originally Posted by spiderplant
Richard is correct that only channels 101 to 105 and 113 remain on V+ and V-HD boxes. However, that's all that many users want. We aren't currently forcing these users to move to TiVo, never mind TV360.
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Do you know why ITV have been allowed to give these customers a choice of an SD or a HD feed (apart from Scotland)? I'm assuming that they only have access to their local BBC1 SD channel, BBC2 HD, Channel 4 SD & Channel 5 HD.
Can these customers still record with their V+?
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21-12-2020, 20:27
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Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)
I suspect it's so people who habitually type 113 don't get an error.
V+ can still record.
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21-12-2020, 21:03
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Architect of Ideas
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Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)
That’ll be a complaint to Virgin Media. Someone else gets something Richard doesn’t.
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22-12-2020, 09:16
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#462
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Helter Skelter
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Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)
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Originally Posted by fox35
The 360 / Horizon system that's in use in the rest of the European market by the other Liberty Global brands, including UPC, don't even use hard drives at all, as everything is recorded directly to the cloud instead. I guess this might be the ultimate goal here, although a very long way off yet.
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Why is Britain not getting the cloud recording option as above,instead still ploughing on with the somewhat ancient hard drive system,heck even if we had an ssd version instead of noisy hard drives that would have been an update.
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22-12-2020, 09:25
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Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)
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Originally Posted by jfman
That’ll be a complaint to Virgin Media. Someone else gets something Richard doesn’t.
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What don't I get that someone else does??
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22-12-2020, 09:27
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#464
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Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
What don't I get that someone else does??
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The joke that he just made...
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23-12-2020, 01:29
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Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)
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Originally Posted by KillerCroc1
The new TV 360 boxes are just V6 boxes with the new software I have the V6 updated to virgin 360 had to get the remote to upgrade though the remote is miles better than that peanut thing the UI is what virgin TV needs it is a welcomed change I can't complain about the update at all
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Ah so i can keep my 3 v6 boxes? How do i get the new software? Will it just come next year for everyone? How did you get the new software exactly?
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