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Old 14-03-2019, 21:14   #16
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Old 14-03-2019, 22:34   #17
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Some V-HD boxes are being replaced now, so it probably is legit. Not sure whether you'd get a V6 or a TiVo 500GB as a replacement.

So you haven't had messages popping up on your box since Monday?
No messages at all except the phone call. I have just rechecked and there are no messages on the V6 and can't see where they would show up on the V HD.

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Batteries? Were they designed to work during a power cut?
Battery-backed static RAM to save the user settings etc when the box was powered off. This was in the days before EEPROM and Flash were widely available.

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No messages at all except the phone call. I have just rechecked and there are no messages on the V6 and can't see where they would show up on the V HD.

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If you were getting them, they would appear on the V-HD just after you changed channel, two or three times a day. There won't be a message on your V6.
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Re: Virgin Media UK to remove V+ HD Boxes from network

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If you were getting them, they would appear on the V-HD just after you changed channel, two or three times a day. There won't be a message on your V6.
So no messages as yet. Will just carry on until VM get around to us. Thank you so much SP you really are very helpful.

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Re: Virgin Media UK to remove V+ HD Boxes from network

I certainly don't want the Cisco V HD box swapped out. It has the very useful SD SCART output (down scaled on HD chanels) that I use with my DVD/HDD recorder and the RF modulator round the house.

DVD feeds through the SCART signals whilst on standby.
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Re: Virgin Media UK to remove V+ HD Boxes from network

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Re: Virgin Media UK to remove V+ HD Boxes from network

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I certainly don't want the Cisco V HD box swapped out. It has the very useful SD SCART output (down scaled on HD chanels) that I use with my DVD/HDD recorder and the RF modulator round the house.

DVD feeds through the SCART signals whilst on standby.
Sorry, but when it comes to it you won't have a choice to keep it. All V boxes will be decommissioned as the whole platform that runs them will be switched off eventually.
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Re: Virgin Media UK to remove V+ HD Boxes from network

If you need SCART (or don't have broadband), you'll be given a TiVo rather than a V6.
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Re: Virgin Media UK to remove V+ HD Boxes from network

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I certainly don't want the Cisco V HD box swapped out. It has the very useful SD SCART output (down scaled on HD chanels) that I use with my DVD/HDD recorder and the RF modulator round the house.

DVD feeds through the SCART signals whilst on standby.
Depends how quickly VM want to bin the Liberate Middleware platform that drives the VHD boxes & EPG. The VHD's were I believe upgradable to other firmware platforms, but VM opted for a pure PVR route & never developed it any more.
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If you need SCART (or don't have broadband), you'll be given a TiVo rather than a V6.
Thanks spiderplant. We almost never have clashes on TV progammes so no need to record more than one at any time. A TiVo would suit just fine.
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Thanks spiderplant. We almost never have clashes on TV progammes so no need to record more than one at any time. A TiVo would suit just fine.
We found the problem with Tivo was that it was slow, and the apps did not always work very well. The BBC i-Player was virtually unwatchable.

That was a couple of years ago now, maybe it's improved in the meantime.
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We found the problem with Tivo was that it was slow, and the apps did not always work very well. The BBC i-Player was virtually unwatchable.

That was a couple of years ago now, maybe it's improved in the meantime.
VM did an update that sped up the box since then. Due to how the update worked not everyone was happy though. As I understand it, they changed it so that the tuners not currently recording a user set programme sit doing nothing until they are required, whereas previously they continuously recorded whatever channel they were tuned to regardless of whether the user was recording something.

The annoyance for some being that they couldn't switch tuners and rewind, like the V6 still allows.
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We found the problem with Tivo was that it was slow, and the apps did not always work very well. The BBC i-Player was virtually unwatchable.

That was a couple of years ago now, maybe it's improved in the meantime.
Most of the TiVo apps are covered by versions on our Sony smart TV. All the TiVo has to do is emulate the Cisco HD box functions. Anything else is really superfluous.
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We found the problem with Tivo was that it was slow, and the apps did not always work very well. The BBC i-Player was virtually unwatchable.

That was a couple of years ago now, maybe it's improved in the meantime.
iPlayer on Tivo now works fine for me, a if a bit slow to load up (used to have horrendous problems). Must be less demand on the system now more have moved to the V6.
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iPlayer on Tivo now works fine for me, a if a bit slow to load up (used to have horrendous problems). Must be less demand on the system now more have moved to the V6.
It's not a network change as I understand it, as I mentioned above the box is doing less.
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