ITV X on V6

[Mr_K]

This is still an issue. Live ITVX is still not available on the V6 version of the ITVX app.    Why? 

[japitts]

Post moved to a new thread. I've got a recollection this is a "feature" of the V6 build of ITV's app, that there is intentionally no live-TV provision.

The argument is that you have EPG access to all of ITV's broadcast channels, and it ITV choose to make particular content online-exclusive, you can either complain to them or access it via a desktop/laptop PC.

[nodrogd]

It seems that ITV, the same as Sky & and few other broadcasters, view the VM TiVO platform as a legacy product & no longer offer updated apps.

[Mr_K]

I suspect ITV and Sky aren't the issue  and VM are deliberately not updating apps on the V6 as part of 'you must convert to 360 blackmail'.  It'll need a lot more than that for me to downgrade. 

[japitts]

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@nodrogd wrote:

It seems that ITV, the same as Sky & and few other broadcasters, view the VM TiVO platform as a legacy product & no longer offer updated apps.

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I can't recall when the ITV-Hub was relaunched as ITV-X, in relation to the whole V6/TV360 timeline.

Sky are developing the Sports HD multiscreen for V6.

[nodrogd]

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@Mr_K wrote:

I suspect ITV and Sky aren't the issue  and VM are deliberately not updating apps on the V6 as part of 'you must convert to 360 blackmail'.  It'll need a lot more than that for me to downgrade. 

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More than likely it is the broadcasters. On Freeview & Freesat they don’t update apps on any kit that is more than 5 years old. In 2016 I bought a cheap Freesat receiver from Argos to get a couple of extra channels. It was a model that while still in stock was no longer produced (2011 model). It had BBC iPlayer & ITV hub installed. The ITV hub ceased to work 6 months after I bought it, the BBC app a year later.

[Roger_Gooner]

No box lasts forever - thankfully - and the V6 will last only whilst there is an agreement with TiVo. Within a few years I expect all V6s and TiVos will be gone leaving just the 360, and that will one day be gone as well to be replaced by Flex in the unstoppable move to IPTV.

[Mr_K]

And maybe all VMs customers will be gone aswell.....

[Roger_Gooner]

The competition wants to ditch the dishes and aerials and move to IPTV, so eventually it will be similar: IPTV over fibre. VM's customers won't be getting anything much better by defecting to Sky or EE. For the future of Pay TV look no further than Sky's Stream where you've got only limited recording facility with most content being streamed from third-party apps or Sky's servers.

[nodrogd]

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@Mr_K wrote:

And maybe all VMs customers will be gone aswell.....

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Sky have extended SkyQ support to 2029, when the current Astra satellites reach end of life. This will not be renewed, & from the start of this month SkyQ is no longer being marketed to new customers. Freesat has the same end of life date as it relies on the same satellites. VM is likely to continue their traditional CATV services until around 2030, but again, active sales of V360 will drop when new customers are only offered XGS-PON. Freeview will be the last to go in around 2034.