Virgin V6 box to TV 360, should I do it?
Hi, I just got an email from VM saying that "Sky Sports are launching Sky Sports+ but that it doesn’t work on my current Virgin TV 6 box" and that "I can upgrade my box to access Sky Sports+ at no extra cost". I went to the VM forums to see what people think about TV 360 and didn't find anything good:
- "several major features are missing owing to TiVO patents"
- "Don't do it. 360 is absolutely awful"
- "All your v6 recordings will be lost"
But not many specifics or whether these issues are still happening. Does anyone have any good guides on which are the main differences and issues moving from Virgin V6 box to TV 360?
Thanks!
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.
And you will lose all your current recordings and series links (which will be difficult to set up again as you can only set series links for programs currently in the TV guide)
