Virgin Media new next generation TV service

asim18 · 8 Nov 2010 at 15:19

arknor said:
wonder what happens if your not on 50mb, perma download limit from people watching on demand stuff

The TV/On-demand stuff is independent from your internet bandwidth at the moment. And I'm quite sure/hope it'll stay that way.

Scooby-DoobyDoo · 2 Dec 2010 at 20:01

Site has been updated:

http://tivo.virginmedia.com/

neil3k · 3 Dec 2010 at 13:49

Want

might have to jump ship from sky.

Nymins · 3 Dec 2010 at 14:14

Would if I could, but I can't, so I shant

Dave85 · 3 Dec 2010 at 14:25

Its pretty ugly compared to the us version but cant wait for this to come out.

Marky · 3 Dec 2010 at 14:30

Looks very impressive!

We want to change our Broadband/TV/Phone package, and it's looking more and more like a change to Virgin...

However, how early is "Early 2011"? We were looking to change this month... Would it be better if we waited for this TiVo thing before swapping? Or should we just take the leap now?

Nymins · 3 Dec 2010 at 14:42

Should be anytime in Q1

blairw · 3 Dec 2010 at 14:46

Looks quality, really wish I was in a cabled area

Marky · 3 Dec 2010 at 15:01

Glaucus · 3 Dec 2010 at 15:20

That looks great.
youtube but no lovfilm, seems a bit odd. Although I suppose a bit of competition with the on demand stuff.

oli356 · 3 Dec 2010 at 15:30

Seems like on the AVForums people are saying it will be £3 a month. And a cost upfront.

EDIT:

Virgin Media TV powered by TiVo will begin to roll-out from mid-December. Standard price of £199**, plus £26.50 per month*** for the XL TiVo package which features over 160 channels, an unrivalled TV on demand library and access to all standard HD channels. For further information, or to register for interest in the Virgin Media TV powered by TiVo service, visit: www.virginmedia.com/TiVo.

Notes to Editors:
* The service is launching with two tuners and will be updated with three tuners in early 2011.
** Standard £40 installation costs apply.
*** When taken with a Virgin phone line. Monthly cost is £32.50 when taken without a phone line.

We won't be paying any more per month tbh or an upfront cost. £96.50 per month is enough, plus call charges to 0870/0845 numbers etc

Robert · 4 Dec 2010 at 12:34

zootfloot said:
We had the engineer round on friday night to install a new samsung box, he was telling me about the Tivo partnership.

He had been on a training day and they got a chance to play with the proposed device, he said that it was lightning fast, great UI, Massive storage (1Tb) but there were some little annoyances.

1) It has intelligent recording, whereby it looks at your recordings and records programs/movies of a similar type, you then have to decide if you want to keep them/delete them....on the version the engineer played with he was unable to turn the feature off

2)The box isnt as attractive as the Samsung ones

3) the on demand stuff was still slow and hung quite often

4) It WILL be expensive, the figure bandied around was a one-off payment of £150 then extra on top of your monthly bill.

He may be completely misinformed of course, and i am sure that most of the issues are simply a software fix?

Quite the opposite to what I've heard.

Add to that engineers can be unreliable.

Oh and I haven't had an issue with OD stuff hanging.

Glaucus · 4 Dec 2010 at 14:01

zootfloot said:
4) It WILL be expensive, the figure bandied around was a one-off payment of £150 then extra on top of your monthly bill.

How is that expensive a current v+HD box is £150 but usually have deals on or can knock them down and it's a mere £3 a month extra.

what do you mean from hanging? OD stuff is slow but never had any issues with it.

Rich · 4 Dec 2010 at 14:25

Its about time they ditched that godawful interface. Talk about scattergun approach. You could be there for ages trying to find the show you want.

utajoker · 4 Dec 2010 at 16:23

will we ever get 3d were we dont have to wear stupid glasses?

oli356 · 4 Dec 2010 at 16:56

utajoker said:
will we ever get 3d were we dont have to wear stupid glasses?

Yes

A few have been made already

ca9phoenix · 5 Dec 2010 at 21:59

The info i got emailed from virgin.... £199 for the box and £3 a month extra

asim18 · 6 Dec 2010 at 20:32

ca9phoenix said:
The info i got emailed from virgin.... £199 for the box and £3 a month extra

Seeing as the STB remains the property of Virgin Media, does anyone know if you'll get that £199 back when you cancel?

Cycrow · 7 Dec 2010 at 01:54

asim18 said:
Don't phone them up and directly ask for a samsung box. Ask them indirectly: "I was wondering if you can provide a different box, as I'm having some problems (insert problems here), I was hoping you'd have be able to give me a different type of box."

I did that and they sent out an engineer with a shiny new Sammy box within the week.

just say ur current one is too high or something.
thats what i did, and they switched it for the samsung which is abit smaller

Euro_Hunter · 7 Jan 2011 at 17:02

zootfloot said:
but there were some little annoyances.

1) It has intelligent recording, whereby it looks at your recordings and records programs/movies of a similar type, you then have to decide if you want to keep them/delete them....on the version the engineer played with he was unable to turn the feature off

This is one of the main features of a TIVO and is very good imho as it finds quite a lot of good programs that I would have otherwise have missed.

Been using my Tivo series 1 for 10 years and can't wait to get the new version :cool: