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Old 31-05-2018, 09:49   #31
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Re: Virgin Media UK to axe V Boxes from August

ok, thanks, I knew I had played with a menu to output but couldn't remember if that was the old V+ box, or my current tivo box

on TVs with freeview, with 2 scarts, at least one is bidirectional, I can record to my panasonic DVD-R/HD recorder freeview programmes from my tv via scart (the recorder is pre freeview) but that could be a special case that they just output the tuner, rather than what is being watched.

if/when I get it working i'll post what I did, 'cos someone else is bound to need to do it
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Re: Virgin Media UK to axe V Boxes from August

Now that you mention bidirectional scart when there's two I think my old TV must have done it based on some of the language used in manual/user interface. I never needed to use it because our area got Freeview signal pretty late on, hence getting Starter pack cable tv package in the first place.
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Re: Virgin Media UK to axe V Boxes from August

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I phoned to downgrade my package today. Spoke to retentions, i wanted to have the TiVo discontinued as was only keeping it to watch old recordings. Was told I had to have the V+ removed as the system wouldn't let it through. Also insisted the V+ would be discontinued in 2 months anyway?. I have not received any information on this. Would I be offered a V6 when the V+ is removed as i have a TiVo?
V+ is not being discontinued yet. It is the V-boxes that are going in the next two months.

When V+ is eventually discontinued, I would expect V6 to be offered as a replacement provided you can have one (i.e. you have VM broadband and your TV supports HDMI). If not, you'll get a TiVo.
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Re: Virgin Media UK to axe V Boxes from August

The V box was a cool box, faster than the V+ or original Tivo. It didn't record but had catch up, quite and unobtrusive for a bedroom with no hard drive whirring away or lights flashing. There is a market for boxes like this. Mine was swapped for a V6, but i've had to tuck that away in a cupboard so i can sleep peacefully ! RIP
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Re: Virgin Media UK to axe V Boxes from August

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The V box was a cool box, faster than the V+ or original Tivo.
You obviously never experienced some of the original ntl and Telewest SD only boxes then!
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Re: Virgin Media UK to axe V Boxes from August

Now that was going back through the wormhole and beyond as l do remember those heady days..
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You obviously never experienced some of the original ntl and Telewest SD only boxes then!
oh yes, my original Jerrold analogue cable box you could fry an egg on ! I was thinking of the VHD - is this the one they are getting rid of ?
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Re: Virgin Media UK to axe V Boxes from August

We had one of these then:



40 channels. Those were the days when our all-band multistandard TV could direct tune quite a number of the channels.

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40 channels. Those were the days when our all-band multistandard TV could direct tune quite a number of the channels.

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is this the one they are getting rid of ?
Not currently, it's the older boxes than that. These ones and some others
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Well if customers are still paying for those they've been ripped off royally by VM.
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l will trump you all as don't you remember the box on the wall which was the start of cable..

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Well if customers are still paying for those they've been ripped off royally by VM.
Virgin have continually promoted TiVo ever since it was launched and more recently the V6.

That's been through a combination of proactive upgrade offers, required upgrades when new offers are agreed etc.

Most of those that still have the SD only boxes either have them as additional boxes, or have no real desire or need to change their box as it 'just works' for them. So even if / when Virgin Media have sent them options to upgrade to new services, they haven't taken the offers available.

Which is why Virgin Media is now having to do the forced changeover.
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that looks circa 1973 Den - Antiques Roadshow maybe valuable ?
l think l remember having this box around the very early eighties.
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