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Taf
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4 months ago

Tivo to 360 update with 2 boxes

Our lad has his own Tivo in his room, the other is in the living room. Without telling us, he accepted the "free upgrade to 360" option a few days ago, and today received 2 remotes. No mini-box or...
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    newapollo
    4 months ago

    Hi Taf 

    Switching to 360 means all recordings and series links are deleted.  Also you can't mix tivo or V6 boxes with 360 boxes. All boxes need to be on the 360 (horizon) system.

    It sounds like the current set up is two V6 boxes powered by tivo (since you've only received the 360 remotes), and not two tivo boxes. 

    Which TV set top boxes  do you currently have?  /which-tv-box 

    The two V6 boxes would receive an over the air update which installs the 360 interface/operating system. As part of this process all recordings and series links are deleted as the hard drive on both boxes would be formatted as part of the software migration to 360 process.

    If you did have two of the older tivo boxes then they cannot be migrated to the 360 platform so the boxes would be swapped out for a main 360 box and a 360 mini box. The mini box doesn't have a hard drive, all recordings are stored on the main 360 box. Your current recordings and series links would not be able to be transferred across to the 360 boxes.

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newapollo
Very Insightful Person
4 months ago

Hi Taf 

Switching to 360 means all recordings and series links are deleted.  Also you can't mix tivo or V6 boxes with 360 boxes. All boxes need to be on the 360 (horizon) system.

It sounds like the current set up is two V6 boxes powered by tivo (since you've only received the 360 remotes), and not two tivo boxes. 

Which TV set top boxes  do you currently have?  /which-tv-box 

The two V6 boxes would receive an over the air update which installs the 360 interface/operating system. As part of this process all recordings and series links are deleted as the hard drive on both boxes would be formatted as part of the software migration to 360 process.

If you did have two of the older tivo boxes then they cannot be migrated to the 360 platform so the boxes would be swapped out for a main 360 box and a 360 mini box. The mini box doesn't have a hard drive, all recordings are stored on the main 360 box. Your current recordings and series links would not be able to be transferred across to the 360 boxes.