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Liveinabin
On our wavelength
2 months ago
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HDMI CEC on a Virgin V6 box

I’m busy upgrading my Mum’s TV setup (planning, anyway). Now she’s old and I want to keep things real simple.  I’ve established that the new TV will turn its soundbar on and off - check! But as for ...
  • roy247's avatar
    roy247
    2 months ago

    You need to confirm which box your mum has because the advice on how to do it might be slightly different, you can check here  the boxes look the same but the remotes and software are different. You will really need to use the virgin remote for all the box functions and you can use this to turn everything on and off, I have a 360 and use the virgin remote for turning everything off and on (TV, soundbar and 360), I could also do the same with my old TV and soundbar with a V6 box.

    If you check which box you have and say which TV and soundbar your mum has I am sure you will get some good advice from someone.

     

Liveinabin's avatar
Liveinabin
On our wavelength
2 months ago

Sorry, didn’t realise it was the 360 section.  Mum definitely has a V6. 
Now am I right in thinking that these can be easily updated to the 360? I did contact Virgin today, but they seemed insistent that changing to 360 would revise (and I assume restart) the contract and cost £40 more per month. I told them no, obviously 🙂

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japitts
Very Insightful Person
2 months ago

Converting a V6 (running TiVo-software) to a TV360 (running Horizon-software) can be done without needing any changes to your package.

That said, be sure that you want to. The two software platforms are fundamentally different, and which is better depends very much on how you use your box - once you've changed you can't revert if you don't like it.