Any future plans for multiroom stream?

[Drefsab]

Hi there I just took out services again with virgin im in a XGS-PON area so no coax. I took a stream box with my package and as I understand it its 1 per household. The question is does anyone know if there's any future plans to change this. Surely they don't expect to replace coax servies with single tv options? Most uk homes have more than one tv now days.

i took it anyway because £35 one off is worth a punt but i'll never be paying for extra channels on one box only and I cant be bothered moving it all the time so it will just be religated to being a freeview box for the spare room where I dont have an arial or sat feed. It just seams a little half baked as a product at the moment.

[BaleKaneSon1]

i have sky stream, it’s not true that it doesn’t record, it records some programmes to the cloud and some it links to the relevant on demand app. 

[Roger_Gooner]

You can get some apps for Catch-Up and record some programmes to the cloud, but there are some channels where neither option is available. The problem is that we are all accustomed to being able to record all channels, and being limited when migrating to IPTV is not going to be popular with a lot of people.

[nodrogd]

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@BaleKaneSon1 wrote:

i have sky stream, it’s not true that it doesn’t record, it records some programmes to the cloud and some it links to the relevant on demand app. 

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Some want you to have the facility, some don’t (usually the ones that want to force adverts on you unless you pay extra). This is bound to annoy a lot of customers who will see this as yet another “downgrade” in their TV services, just as they have moving from TiVO to Horizon.

[Roger_Gooner]

I'm in the odd position of a techie who understands why VM doesn't want to keep allocating a chunk of spectrum to DVB-C and approves of the move of everything - TV, VoD, voice and broadband - to IP but, as a consumer I'm not going to like Stream and will hang grimly onto my 360 box for as long as possible.

[pete_at_home]

Contrary to popular belief, moving the video from DVB-C to IP doesn not specifially "free up space for more broadband".  The video bandwidth has to go somewhere !!  

[Tudor]

"The video bandwidth has to go somewhere !!  "
You need to do a lot of reading on DVB-C, DOCSIS and IPTV.

[Roger_Gooner]

My information is old but I know that VM used to have at least 750Mhz of spectrum, and I've no reason to believe that this has changed. This spectrum, which is finite, is segmented into DVB-C for live broadcasts and IP (DOCSIS). VOD used to be in the DVB-C spectrum but was switched to the IP spectrum a few years ago. VM also changed the compression from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 which further reduced TV and video sizes. However the introduction of UHD broadcasts has resulted in the need for more DVB-C spectrum. It's all a bit of a balancing act to best use the spectrum until VM achieves its holy grail of delivering everything over IP.