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Is it worth upgrading from V6 to TV360?

LindaAMS
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Hi all, currently have 3 V6 boxes and just wondering if I should keep as they are or consider finding out about upgrading them to TV360.

Is the process easy enough to arrange and also, is it worth the change from a useability standpoint?

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Tudor
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Lots of posts about this on the board, do a search. Usability by many is regarded as worse than the V6.


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japitts
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Advice to search past posts is wise. As a headline view, if you do significant amounts of recorded viewing, the V6 is very likely a better choice due to being a recording box from the ground-up.

The TV360 is designed for the "online world" where recording is generally an after-thought, but does have some of the newer streaming apps (Paramount, Disney) if you have those. The interface is undoubtedly newer, but this is at the expense of some of the additional recording features - so much depends what you use your V6 for.

The comparison is a marmite one - opinions vary wildly, and a voluntary choice to convert is irreversible.

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Tavis75
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As has been mentioned, the 360 is missing a lot of nice features around recording and usability (many of them TiVo patents, so wont be coming in the future), you do get a couple more apps (though obviously only if you pay to subscribe to them) and voice control.

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 on all tuners, 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. 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.

1701-e
Fibre optic

On the comment about not being able to watch recordings when internet is down,  this must have changed as my hub 4 is offline ( next Wednesday for engineer visit!) yet I'm able to watch recordings from last night.  I even set a recording for something this morning and it worked.  The exception is where a series has been recorded.

Thanks for the comments and will take them.on board asIdecide.