Hello
I have the V6 box and the app icon telling me to 'upgrade now'. So is the next step to contact VM for the 360 remote? Then when it's delivered do I assume that I can just follow the instructions on the screen to upgrade? I'm a bit worried that VM will cut me off once I've put in the request for a remote, or is it the actual upgrade process that disconnects the existing service? Thanks for any advice.
If you want to convert from TiVo-firmware to Horizon-firmware, then you've pretty much got the process nailed. You request the migration & a new remote is sent out. You then have a few days to instigate the reformat & reinstall yourself, before it's done for you.
Until the reformat process, your box will continue to run TiVo-software. The migration process will remove TiVo and reinstall Horizon in its place - the two software platforms are very different with some substantial variations in functionality.
I would look into the differences between the two systems before switching. It is not an upgrade, there are a lot of features missing from the 360 compared to the V6.
There's plenty of discussion about it on here but some of the missing features are as follows; Quickplay (play 10% faster with audio), Wishlists (where you can set the box to record programs on certain subjects or featuring certain people), undelete, series link+, suggestions, setting of series links for programs not in the current TV guide, ethernet control, keyboard support via USB, turning off the mini-preview screen while browsing menus, switching between tuners with constant buffering, skip-back on fast-forward, default recording options, cancelling individual recordings from a series link, multi-channel series links, radio channels allowing recording of radio, separation of recordings between boxes, watching recordings when internet is not available and probably a few others I've forgotten.
Also, extra boxes do not have their own hard disks or tuners (unless converted from a V6 box), so you lose storage space and recording ability and are also reliant on the main box being on to watch and set recordings and also on having a decent wi-fi signal (or ethernet cable) between the two boxes when watching recordings. If the boxes are used by independent family members i.e. older children living at home, then there is also the issue of recordings being pooled across all boxes, so everyone's recordings are mixed up, rather than being separated. This also means that if there is a show that both people watch and one person watches and deletes it then it is gone for the other person as well, and can't be recovered due to the lack of undelete.
