General : Virgin TV (2026)

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Itshim

And if you haven't upgraded?

Self inflicted wounds!

[Media Boy UK]

Clubland TV is now on Virgin Channel 289 (was on Channel 292)

Are Virgin Media making room for That’s Rock, That’s Oldies and That’s Melody to launch on Virgin Media UK?

[Itshim]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Self inflicted wounds!

Sorry , I am a if it ain't broke don't fix it kind of guy. And I still fail to find any reason to change , if I have too then I will cross that bridge when I come to it.
Having looked at a few sites , here , tec radar etc. I can find no reason to change from v6 , there is nothing that I would need that I cannot do at this time. But each to their own

[stann0]

My old Tivo box is on the way out. Breakup on all recordings so I presume the HDD is failing. Question is - will they replace it with a 360 or try and palm me off with a stream box? I'd like to know my position before ringing them. Looking at the relative specs I have absolutely no interest in the stream box - I wouldn't use any of the streaming features and would miss out on everything the traditional box does - mainly recording programmes to watch later.

I gather from a few web searches VM are trying to move people over to the stream box. That would be the end of VM TV for me - a deal-breaker. Would it be grounds to cancel my contract?

Any feedback welcome!

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by stann0

My old Tivo box is on the way out. Breakup on all recordings so I presume the HDD is failing. Question is - will they replace it with a 360 or try and palm me off with a stream box? I'd like to know my position before ringing them. Looking at the relative specs I have absolutely no interest in the stream box - I wouldn't use any of the streaming features and would miss out on everything the traditional box does - mainly recording programmes to watch later.

I gather from a few web searches VM are trying to move people over to the stream box. That would be the end of VM TV for me - a deal-breaker. Would it be grounds to cancel my contract?

Any feedback welcome!

I'm in a contract and don't even want the 360. Virgin seem to be able to force you onto stream with their 'We reserve the right to change your STB' clause in their t&c's.

If you want to carry on recording, Sky still offer Sky Q, but you now have to ring up for this (so that they can try to persuade you to have Sky Stream) as it cannot now be ordered online.

BT have some good deals, particularly if you want the sport channels as per another forum member:

Originally Posted by neil79;c-107542208

Checked with Sky if they can beat the BT offer and they would beat BT for fibre but there seemed to be some confusion on the TV package that I required.
If you take a sky TV package you can't just take the Sport package like on BT. You are required to take a Sky ultimate or maybe Sky Essentials add on and doing the sums the discount on the fibre is lost on the TV deal. The Sky salesperson seemed surprised when I said the Sky TV was more expensive than BT and advised me to double check the BT renewal offer small print which I will do. The Sky person seemed to think I would need to pay BT for the TV box with FTA channels and a recording feature but that is included with the Sport package. The sky Ultimate was offered at £14 for channels I don't require which is cheaper than on the Sky website.
Quite surprised that Sky currently don't seem to be able to beat my BT renewal deal. They have been calling me for the last 2 years about going back to Sky and at one time offered to payoff my BT contract so I could go back to Sky.

Originally Posted by stann0

My old Tivo box is on the way out. Breakup on all recordings so I presume the HDD is failing. Question is - will they replace it with a 360 or try and palm me off with a stream box? I'd like to know my position before ringing them. Looking at the relative specs I have absolutely no interest in the stream box - I wouldn't use any of the streaming features and would miss out on everything the traditional box does - mainly recording programmes to watch later.

I gather from a few web searches VM are trying to move people over to the stream box. That would be the end of VM TV for me - a deal-breaker. Would it be grounds to cancel my contract?

Any feedback welcome!

We had that problem last week - powering it down for 10 minutes, then rebooting it seemed to resolve the issue.

[stann0]

Originally Posted by Hugh

We had that problem last week - powering it down for 10 minutes, then rebooting it seemed to resolve the issue.

Ah OK - will try that first - thanks. It probably hasn't been powered off for quite a few years!

[1701-e]

Originally Posted by stann0

My old Tivo box is on the way out. Breakup on all recordings so I presume the HDD is failing. Question is - will they replace it with a 360 or try and palm me off with a stream box? I'd like to know my position before ringing them. Looking at the relative specs I have absolutely no interest in the stream box - I wouldn't use any of the streaming features and would miss out on everything the traditional box does - mainly recording programmes to watch later.

I gather from a few web searches VM are trying to move people over to the stream box. That would be the end of VM TV for me - a deal-breaker. Would it be grounds to cancel my contract?

Any feedback welcome!

It can be replaced with a TiVo V6 regardless of Richard says.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by 1701-e

It can be replaced with a TiVo V6 regardless of Richard says.

If that is the case, all well and good, but for how much longer when they want everyone on Stream, let alone the 360? Apparently, once in a contract, their t&c's allow them to change the STB without giving one the right to cancel, which is very problematic if you don't want the replacement box and are stuck in a long contract.

[ozsat]

Have you done an entended watch of live tv to ensure thatis OK?

We don't watch much live tv and our recordings were breaking up at times.

Turned out to be a loose coax connection.

Originally Posted by stann0

My old Tivo box is on the way out. Breakup on all recordings so I presume the HDD is failing. Question is - will they replace it with a 360 or try and palm me off with a stream box? I'd like to know my position before ringing them. Looking at the relative specs I have absolutely no interest in the stream box - I wouldn't use any of the streaming features and would miss out on everything the traditional box does - mainly recording programmes to watch later.

I gather from a few web searches VM are trying to move people over to the stream box. That would be the end of VM TV for me - a deal-breaker. Would it be grounds to cancel my contract?

Any feedback welcome!

[stann0]

Originally Posted by ozsat

Have you done an entended watch of live tv to ensure thatis OK?

We don't watch much live tv and our recordings were breaking up at times.

Turned out to be a loose coax connection.

Yes - no problem at all with live TV which makes me think it's probably the hard drive. I'll try a hard restart before ringing VM though. Thanks all.

[Media Boy UK]

True Crime +1 is set to Close on January 31st on Virgin UK Channel 348.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Itshim

Sorry , I am a if it ain't broke don't fix it kind of guy. And I still fail to find any reason to change , if I have too then I will cross that bridge when I come to it.
Having looked at a few sites , here , tec radar etc. I can find no reason to change from v6 , there is nothing that I would need that I cannot do at this time. But each to their own

If you are perfectly happy with your TiVo, that’s perfectly OK, at least for now. I prefer the picture based screens, like Netflix, rather than lists.

But as you say, each to their own.