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kevcopp99's avatar
kevcopp99
On our wavelength
5 hours ago

360 upgrade ?

Hi .i am still 50/50 on accepting this upgrade or not ? Before i do some advice & a bit of information would be much appreciated so thanks in advance. At the moment i have 2 Virgin TiVo V6 boxes in different rooms . 1 will they still be able to comunicate eith each other. Stream from one to the other ? 2 will i lose still have all my recordings that ive not watced yet.but would like save until i do ? 3 will my series links & wish lists be saved too ? Lastly is it really worth the trouble .various different options from good to bad ? Honest review needed here i think .thanks again 

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  • nodrogd's avatar
    nodrogd
    Very Insightful Person
    2 hours ago

    The first thing to point out is that V360 uses Liberty Global’s Horizon platform. It is a totally different animal to TiVO & is built around streaming rather than recording. Installing it involves a reformat of the hard drives, so you will lose your recordings. Horizon is a central server based system (that is used outside the UK for cloud recording), so although you will initially have two hard drive boxes, all your recordings are pooled into one list. When you set each recording you will need to specify which box you want to record on, otherwise the request will just default to the last box used for recording. When one of your boxes fails it will be replaced by a streaming box (no HDD or coax connection), so you lose half of your recording capacity. You will have to set up series links again, but you can only do this if the series is currently showing. Wishlists are unfortunately a TiVO patented feature, & therefore not available on Horizon.

  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    Very Insightful Person
    2 hours ago

    The other question is - what do you think the 360 will give you that you don't have at the minute?