I am curious to know if there are happy people out there content with this box I am still not comfortable with it myself yet and I may cancel when my contract ends and look elsewhere I have been a customer for 17 years and this last three weeks sonce upgrading ha s been a nightmare happy days when I had my TiVo box
Hi again SallyRead
It's very seldom that happy people post on any forums. Most post requesting help or to complain.
The majority of people don't like change and so initially tend to be dissatisfied or unhappy until they get used to new equipment or systems.
I've had the 360 boxes for around 3 years and am very happy with them. The box doesn't have all the bells and whistles that the old tivo boxes had, but I never used most of them and so don't miss them. I actually find the 360 easier to use, especially the voice control. See <this page>
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Thank you for rep!ting I hope I do get used to it as I have no choice now what is frustrating is my service status patents still insisting there is an issue with morbid my devices either broadband or tv but all is working okay and the engineer who came last Saturday saw my status page I took a photo did some cBecks and could find nothing
my service status patents still insisting there is an issue with morbid my devices either broadband or tv but all is working okay
Perhaps there is no issue to be found. Or rather, the issue is in the service status.
I suggested quite similar in your other thread at Connectivity issues with broadband or | Virgin Media Community - 5665306
I use most of the Tivo 'bells and whistles' and won't be downgrading to 360 anytime soon.
If you do go down the cancellation route, worth asking then for a V6 box which runs the Tivo software (but much faster than the old Tivo box). Its amazing how they can suddenly do the impossible if they think you're leaving ...
Its amazing how they can suddenly do the impossible if they think you're leaving ...
I don't think anyone has ever claimed that a reversion from TV360 > TiVo/V6 is impossible, unless you can quote a post where they have.
Do you know of someone who's done this, and had a TiVo/V6 installed subsequently?
Yes, a few have managed to go from 360 back to V6 but it involves being out of contract, being assertive, retentions and an engineer with a replacement box with V6 software.
I've had the 360 for nearly three years and apart from a couple of missing TiVo features it's a great fast box and works well.
There you go 😁
I've had the 360 for 11 months, it is a piece of garbage compared to the previous boxes I had with C&W, NTL and VM. Under no circumstances should you downgrade to this box.
There are "a few missing features" that the TiVo V6 had but not a lot of them were used by everyone, I miss some of them but you just need to try and work around the missing features depending on how they affect you.
@SallyRead hasn't actually said what her problems are in this post if she itemised them maybe she would get some advice.
If its losing functionality , how is that an 'upgrade'?
You could say the box isn't losing any functions, it's primary function's are showing live TV and recording which it still does.
It's just lost some features about the way you watch and record things.
As has been said before it isn't necessarily an upgrade just different software, if the 360 can either 5 or 6 stream boxes connected then that might be considered an upgrade over the V6.
The V6 is better developed, not surprising as its TiVo has been around for a long time. Obvious benefit is not relying on a server for playing recordings, series link works better I think. However if I were to revert I'd miss voice control. Also new apps are all appearing on the 360 (including Apple TV+, DAZN, Disney+, Paramount+ and U) and I'd expect a Max app to be on the 360 and Stream boxes only. I think some people make far too much noise about the 360's shortcomings whilst saying little of those of the V6. And we are all going to get migrated to Stream, like it or not.
To answer the op, no I am not happy either. Got conned into the switch and bitterly regret it. Picture quality is down and the whole layout is horrible.
I started a thread to ask similarly unhappy people how many of us there were, and someone has deleted it. That, in itself, speaks volumes.
Same here. I watch(ed) a lot of American sport and I could use a single button on the V6 remote to skip forward 30 seconds - useful given the frequent breaks in play. I could also skip forward 15, 30 or 60 minutes at a time, depending on the length of the recording. So I was surprised that the features were absent from V360 (although the cynic in me appreciates that the broadcasters will be delighted if the breaks are harder to skip).
I can't comment on whether I don't like 'change' but I certainly don't like 'loss.' I'll give it a few more days to see if I can work around it but I've just discovered that I'm paying £1485 pa for the service so it's probably time to look elsewhere.
FAO the "Anonymous" poster that has deleted their forum account.
Recording playback features that you say are abent of the 360 are still there.
You can still use a single button to skip forward 30 seconds. The left and right arrow buttons either side of the OK button skip forward 30 seconds and back 10 seconds.
To skip forwards/backwards 15 minutes in recordings - press MIC and say "go forward 15 minutes" or "go back 15 minutes". You can also say "fast forward 10 minutes" or whatever amount of time you want. To avoid adverts on streamed & on demand say "skip forward three minutes" or "fast forward 3 minutes"
If you press the fast forward button above the '3' key, you have 4 speeds depending on how many times you press the button.
When fast forwarding press the TV button and that will switch off the fast forward arrows etc. For Stop press the back button or pause button, TV button also stops and puts you back to TV.
To play back in slow motion press pause then Fast Forward
Technology eh ! We can all talk to our TV remote control ...
Bad enough having to put up with Alexa ;-)
