Multiroom
nuttytigger
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Is multiroom worth it?
We have just a standard VM box in the living room, what would we get with multiroom?
Also is there anyway to just get it posted out without an engineer visit as we already have VM in both the bedroom and living room, but only one box so we swap about occasionally.
Any help is welcome.
We have just a standard VM box in the living room, what would we get with multiroom?
Also is there anyway to just get it posted out without an engineer visit as we already have VM in both the bedroom and living room, but only one box so we swap about occasionally.
Any help is welcome.
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Hi mate, you'll get a V HD box which is the standard box now i think, you could request a V+ box which gives you all the recording facilities, and if you are willing to pay an extra £5 per month then you could get a TiVo box with all the bells and whistles, as for multiroom, well i have 4 boxes in total and don't pay anything extra for multiroom, just give retentions a call on 150, iv'e found if you are reasonable with them on the phone then you are much more likely to get a good deal.
I don't really need the recording facilities, but if I can get it at no extra cost then I wouldn't mind lol.
HD box is pointless as well, as we don't have an HD telly, but nothing I can do about that, think I'll phone them in a couple of months, see what they can offer lol.
We don't need the engineer to come as we already have virgin in both rooms, but only one box. I though it was £10 a month, so will be looking into it more in a few months.
The reason I mentioned it was because it seems to be cheaper to have a an extra Tivo rather than a V+. I think you can get them on the lesser packages now as well.
We don't even have one Tivo, would I need to upgrade both boxes? I'm on the L TV package.
Anything I watch I can get on an iPlayer, but do you have the option to pause/rewind tv etc? That might be an option.
Yes, Virgin only do the Tivo boxes for recording now,
as they have discontinued the V+ boxes even the HD ones
Their plan going forward is for everyone to be migrated on to the Tivo box
It is a bit late in the day to sort out your requirements, because the special offer for the Tivo boxes finishes on the 27th of February in just little over a week’s time
If you have to have two Tivo boxes installed then this is the best way to go about it
Phone up Virgin on 150 from your Virgin Phone Line
and go to the option of adding services then request two Tivo Boxes and wait for them to be installed here are all the options, which is a bit complicated
Option 1
Have one Tivo box installed now, by phoning Virgin tomorrow morning after 10am
Price £49.95 for the 1TB Tivo box or Free with the 500GB Tivo box
Plus £49.95 Installation Charge - you may get this waived
Monthly Charge £3 a month on top of your current subs
Then get another Tivo box installed at a later date,
phone again on THIS Friday morning after 10am before the 27th of February
Price £49.95 for the 1TB Box and Free for the 500GB Tivo box
Plus £49.95 Installation Charge - you might get this waived
Option 2
Phone Tomorrow morning and order two 1TB Tivo boxes
Price £49.95 for the 1st 1TB Tivo box and £99.95 for the second one and each for any others
Plus £49.95 Installation Charge
Monthly Price - all prices are on top of your current sub
£3 a month per box so £6 in total for two Tivo boxes plus £6.50 Multiroom charge
Options 3 and 4
Phone after the 27th of February and follow Options 1 or 2
Price for the boxes and Installation is the same
Monthly Charges- all prices are on top of your current sub
£5 a month per box so £10 in total for two boxes plus £6.50 Multiroom Charge, so it will be £16.50 a month
Its not for just now anyways, I was mainly just wondering what I got for multiroom and how much extra it will be.
So unless I am reading it wrong option 2 you have put there would be £200?
Yes, if you include the Installation charge as well, that is why it is better to phone up tomorrow morning and order the 1TB Box and then phone up again
on Friday morning and order another one
Both Installs will cost you £100 each in total, so you do not gain anything other than stalling for time and making Virgin to come out twice, Virgin have us by the short and curlies
Bugger that!
I'll leave it a few months, unless I have a job before then, and try to talk them out of sending an engineer - thats mainly why we haven't done it before now! Both rooms are wired in, as we had a VM box in one and *ahem* box in the other, but they still say they need to send out an engineer lol.
Yes, all Tivo installs require an engineer to come out because it takes up to an hour to get it installed, you cannot Self-Install Tivo boxes,
this has been mentioned on other Posts and Forums
What the Engineer does while they are installing the Tivo box(es), I am not sure yet, the stage before the Software Downloads,
I am looking on YouTube at the moment to find out Video wise
But thanks for the help.
Virgin do not do any more "normal boxes" just the Tivo for recording and with a bit of a push and a shove they will give you a Cisco V HD box that does not record at all
See here for details http://shop.virginmedia.com/digital-tv/set-top-boxes.html
VHD box would be fine, yes we don't have a HD telly, but we've been without recording facilities (used to have Sky+) for 4 years now, so wouldn't bother me at all.
The only things we really use on the telly is the BBC iPlayer and the ITV Net Player, again available on the VHD.
Could we get round the installation with that one?
You might, but I doubt it very much
Hmm.. I just grudge paying £40 for my day to be wasted waiting on a guy coming out to do nothing, obviously with the tivo he'd have something to do!.
You might be able to do a Self-Install, I am not sure, phone tomorrow and and see
I might do, just to enquire, the tenants before us had multiroom, thats why its there in both rooms.
Our package was £55.25 a month, that was for XL BB, L TV and L phone with a standard VM box. That included £2.25 a month for caller ID.
I had previously enquired about the multiroom, and was told it would be an extra £6.50 a month taking us to £61.75.
VM have now brought out collections, so my husband phoned tonight and we are now onto a Premium Collection which is:
500Gb TiVo box
HD multiroom
XL BB
XL TV
M phone (dropping a package but we use mobiles anyway)
All for £61.15 a month (with the £2.25 for CID) which is actually 60p a month cheaper than getting just standard multiroom!
We do need to pay the £49.95 but thats fine, as its for a better reason this time lol!
It is £50 for an engineer visit not £40
It takes an hour and a half for the Tivo to be installed that is what they told me on the phone last week
They first need to check the signals and the balance that can take up to half an hour and then an hour for the Tivo box to be installed, programmed
and for the software to be updated before it is available to use
Getting 100MB Broadband with the Superhub Modem/Router and 1TB Tivo box in July, to keep my equipment up to date from Virgin
Eventually I will be upgraded to 120MB Broadband
We are just going to the 500Gb TiVo and 60Mb BB, but we are confused as to wether its going to be 30Mb going to 60Mb or 60Mb going to 100Mb - the girl on the phone wasn't sure.
We don't mind paying the £49.95 this time, as its TiVo we are getting installed, plus we are now getting a much better package for 60p less than just multiroom.