Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV
16-11-2010, 18:59
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV
I can't explain how excited I am for this Tivo box, for years now I've heard people say how awesome the interface is in comparison to Virgin & Skys EPG offerings. Now if only VM had an option to register my interest......
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16-11-2010, 19:04
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV
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Originally Posted by Doz007
I can't explain how excited I am for this Tivo box, for years now I've heard people say how awesome the interface is in comparison to Virgin & Skys EPG offerings. Now if only VM had an option to register my interest......
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They will.. very soon 
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16-11-2010, 19:17
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV
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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
They will.. very soon |
I wouldnt mind one but hope Virgin don't release it only in a certain area that really sucks.
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16-11-2010, 19:26
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV
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Originally Posted by muppetman11
I wouldnt mind one but hope Virgin don't release it only in a certain area that really sucks.
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VM have already said it will be done that way. It will be the last phase of testing.
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16-11-2010, 20:36
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV
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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
VM have already said it will be done that way. It will be the last phase of testing.
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Well fingers crossed that it's tested in my area!  
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16-11-2010, 21:32
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV
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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
VM have already said it will be done that way. It will be the last phase of testing.
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Well it wont be tested in Oldham nothing ever does 
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16-11-2010, 21:43
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV
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Originally Posted by mattboothers
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So VM happily state "Our new TiVo® box will be HD and 3D ready, allowing you to get closer to the action". Followed immediately by "It's got a massive 1TB of personal storage – that means you can save up to 500 hours of your favourite programmes"
I think they may be pulling a "marketing fast one" here. By not sating all the facts, they would like you to believe that you can store 500 hours of HD or 3D content on a 1TB HDD - clearly there is some amazing magic in the VM version of the Tivo system to achieve this.
Tivo's own information states 150 hours of HD or 1350 SD on a 1TB disc.
Where lies the truth I wonder?
Can I be first to say "Can I put a larger HDD in my VM Tivo box"?
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16-11-2010, 21:56
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV
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Originally Posted by JayAy
So VM happily state "Our new TiVo® box will be HD and 3D ready, allowing you to get closer to the action". Followed immediately by "It's got a massive 1TB of personal storage – that means you can save up to 500 hours of your favourite programmes"
I think they may be pulling a "marketing fast one" here. By not sating all the facts, they would like you to believe that you can store 500 hours of HD or 3D content on a 1TB HDD - clearly there is some amazing magic in the VM version of the Tivo system to achieve this.
Tivo's own information states 150 hours of HD or 1350 SD on a 1TB disc.
Where lies the truth I wonder?
Can I be first to say "Can I put a larger HDD in my VM Tivo box"? |
1 terabyte will certainly be enough storage for me and most other people forever now (especially if Virgin switch from MPEG2 to MPEG4 which means they'll take up less space on the disk) for the current HD standard, unless somehow my viewing habits dramatically change or we switch to SuperHiVisionDef3DXtraMax, which by then we'll have another new box (hopefully).
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16-11-2010, 22:43
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV
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Originally Posted by VirginMediaPhil
1 terabyte will certainly be enough storage for me and most other people forever now (especially if Virgin switch from MPEG2 to MPEG4 which means they'll take up less space on the disk) for the current HD standard, unless somehow my viewing habits dramatically change or we switch to SuperHiVisionDef3DXtraMax, which by then we'll have another new box (hopefully).
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for SHD we would need anew box so would sky no current box could do SHD, also no salittelle currnetly oculd carry SHD channels even comressed cable probally coulbut you are talkinga alot of transport sreams being used for one channel
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16-11-2010, 23:06
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV
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Originally Posted by JayAy
So VM happily state "Our new TiVo® box will be HD and 3D ready, allowing you to get closer to the action". Followed immediately by "It's got a massive 1TB of personal storage – that means you can save up to 500 hours of your favourite programmes"
I think they may be pulling a "marketing fast one" here. By not sating all the facts, they would like you to believe that you can store 500 hours of HD or 3D content on a 1TB HDD - clearly there is some amazing magic in the VM version of the Tivo system to achieve this.
Tivo's own information states 150 hours of HD or 1350 SD on a 1TB disc.
Where lies the truth I wonder?
Can I be first to say "Can I put a larger HDD in my VM Tivo box"? |
Well based on the current 160Gb V+ being able to store 80 hours SD or 20 hours HD, then a Terrabyte box would be able to store 500 hours SD or 125 hours HD. There's no reason to expect the TIVO box to have any effect on the amount that can be stored, as the data streams being recorded will still be the same size. The US figures may be based on MPEG4 at a guess?
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16-11-2010, 23:07
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV
Yeah 1TB should be enough i'd imagine. But would be cool if they did the option of having a 1TB or 2TB versions.
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17-11-2010, 00:09
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV
The inclusion of web content/YouTube would point to there being a hardware h264 decoder in that box and I wonder if that will mean a move away from MPEG2 to H264/AVC is on the cards (finally). If so then program space estimates on that hard drive might not be as far off as they first look.
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17-11-2010, 00:37
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV
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Originally Posted by Horace
The inclusion of web content/YouTube would point to there being a hardware h264 decoder in that box and I wonder if that will mean a move away from MPEG2 to H264/AVC is on the cards (finally). If so then program space estimates on that hard drive might not be as far off as they first look.
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True, box conforms to H.264 (mpeg 4 part 10)
backwards compat wiv mpeg 2 & 1
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17-11-2010, 01:43
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV
bit of info for you
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In addition to new deployments it is hoped the TiVo software will be downloaded into a part of the existing installed base. “The current V+ HD, ie non-DVR boxes that we are sourcing from Cisco, are compatible with TiVo, so we could drop TiVo onto those, but the Samsung DVRs are not, so we would probably launch DVRs that we would source from Cisco initially and they would be new to requirements,” said Berkett.
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http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2010/...rgin-tivo-pvr/
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17-11-2010, 01:57
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV
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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
Hi and  
Yeah I've seen that before. I've seen a ticket raised for it too, but it was a while back.
I'll get it looked at again when I'm in the office next. 
EDIT: replicated here at home too... no EPG data between 8:30am - 9am weekdays. same on 855 |
It's a known issue. At the moment setting manual recordings is the only way round it.
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