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psca11
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7 months ago

Dreading 360 'upgrade' already

I'm kicking myself for going ahead with the 360 upgrade (despite it currently throwing an error when upgrading, so hasn't yet upgraded).

I've read several posts on here this evening saying how terrible it is h I obviously haven't seen it myself yet so can't make a judgement but am almost certain I'm going to hate it when it finally arrives.

I have a V6 box and although clunky in many ways, it does at least give you full << < > >> plus the all important pause button, which doesn't have any annoying short time limit.

Does anyone on here have anything good to say about 360?

I'm already wondering how easy or even possible it would be to get 'downgraded' back to traditional V6?

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  • japitts's avatar
    japitts
    Very Insightful Person
    7 months ago
    psca11 wrote:

    I'm kicking myself for going ahead with the 360 upgrade..

    I've read several posts on here this evening saying how terrible it is

    It's not terrible, it's just different. It's marketed as an upgrade, when a much more accurate term would be "migration".

    The same argument would apply if ever an Apple <--> Android conversion - in either direction - was similarly labelled as an upgrade.

    The pause function is a good illustration of where the 2 platforms are different. On a single V6 box, you have 6 tuners all of which hold a buffer of upto 1hour (or the duration of any recordings). A TV360 has a longer buffer (3 hours IIRC) but this only works on live recordings & whatever channel you're on. Every other tuner is shut down, including the live channel if you watch a recording.

    Once the process to convert to TV360 has been started, it can't usually be stopped.

  • psca11's avatar
    psca11
    Joining in
    7 months ago

    Thanks for the reply

    So just to clarify - my V6 box will have 5 of its 6 tuners shut down?h

    Does that mean I won't be able to record more than one channel at any one time? 

    What about watching a recording at the same time as a recording of something else is happening?

    • 1701-e's avatar
      1701-e
      Fibre optic
      7 months ago

      You can record six channels at the same time whilst watching a recording!   

      • japitts's avatar
        japitts
        Very Insightful Person
        7 months ago

        TiVo software, running as a V6, supports all 6 tuners running simultaneously with a 1hour buffer on anything not set to record.

        Horizon software, running as a TV360, allows the exact same recording of upto 6 channels at once. The difference is that any tuner not set to record, doesn't buffer in the background.

        So you have the live TV buffer, and any recordings - only.