klsdorsetuk wrote:
Can you still record up to six programmes when you upgrade a v6 box to 360?
Yes, you can. Both of your V6 boxes will be upgraded to 360 and retain all of their recording capability.
You can't have a mix of 360s and V6s, all boxes have to be converted together.
I would also look into the differences between the boxes, if you record a lot the V6 has better features in that regard, the 360 is more focused on streaming.
Some of the missing features are as follows; Wishlists (where you can set the box to record programs on certain subjects or featuring certain people), undelete, series link+, series link manager, suggestions, setting of series links for programs not in the current TV guide, ethernet control, keyboard support via USB, switching between tuners with constant buffering, skip-back on fast-forward, quickplay, 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.
I'm a bit late on parade with this thread. We also have two V6 boxes (as elderly relatives live in the same house, with their own V6 box). What we have at the moment is ideal, as they can record their 'old people programs' and we don't know, or care, what they are, but with the V360 box it appears as if we will, and it will interfere with what we record and delete.
From what I understand with the V360 box, some of the lost features are IMO unnecessary ones anyway that don't provide much benefit, but to have the main V360 box holding the recordings means we'll be stuck scrolling through 50% capacity of wildlife documentaries to find what we want, and in the rare event where we watch the same program, it could easily get deleted before both have watched it.
All in all it seems like a massive backward step.
Yes, the recording pool sounds like a pain, the issue with having to scroll through the extra recordings is an annoyance, but the deletion is a big issue, you either can't delete anything in case the other people haven't watched it, or you need to check for every recording. You can set up recordings to go to a specific box (but you have to remember to set that up manually every time you set a recording), and then use a toggle every time to see recordings only on a specific box, but I believe you can only set up one recording for any specific program on a channel, so that doesn't solve the accidental deletion problem as you can't store an individual recording to each box.
Also, because the 360 is also missing the Undelete feature then if someone does delete the recording there isn't even a way to recover it.
When I heard about profiles I thought they might be a way to handle this, different people could have different profiles and only see their own recordings and if a program was recorded by two profiles then it would only be deleted when both of them deleted it, but profiles actually just seem to be about targeted ads.
