Very interesting but I'm sure they will probably try to tie you into a new 18 month contract if you upgrade.

Yes, I was tied into a new 12 month contract. I had 4 months to run from my last contract, so only 8 months in reality.

It really annoys me how they're now tying customers to a contract every time they sneeze, if they were confident of their service/products they wouldn't need to do this.

I can understand it for new installations to recoup their costs, but not for anything else.

Has everyone with a V6 only got 1TB like myself?

Nothing has been mentioned about the 2TB that was rumoured to be coming.

I would have preferred one of these, but didn't want to sound ungrateful as it was provided at no cost.

Having only had the V6 for three days and having watched some recordings, i've used 25% of the HDD already!

I guess this is the downside of having 6 tuners as it enables me to record more HD broadcasts and first transmissions as opposed to having to push them back.

I've got three tivos and all three are still on the 20.5.7 rc23. All three are extremely slow.

The RC24 update arrived overnight for me and the box does seem to be much quicker now.

Details announced at 09:30 this morning

"New VirginTV V6 box will be 4K compatible and 'the fastest way to Netflix in the UK. Our smallest, fastest, smartest set-top box ever."

"New VirginTV V6 box is '10 times faster than current TiVO box and built for apps. Can record 6 shows at once, more than Sky Q. 1TB HD."

You'd think that they'd have opened another pop up channel to televise this if they think it's going to be that much of a game changer.

Pricing and Availability


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http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2016/11/virgin-media-launches-4k-virgin-tv-v6-box/


https://www.cnet.com/uk/news/virgin-...-telly-tablet/

More apps on the way


http://www.digitalspy.com/tech/news/a815544/virgin-media-takes-on-sky-by-bringing-4k-tv-to-your-home-with-its-new-tv-v6-box/


TV Anywhere update, TellyTablet and Virgin Media Store


https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/30/virgin-media-v6

TellyTablet Details


https://www.cnet.com/uk/news/virgin-...d-telly-tablet

I'm liking the pricing.

What a total anticlimax.

Virgin have totally dropped the ball here. They had the opportunity to do what Sky did - come up with a totally new, fresh system that properly competed with Sky Q but all they've done is produced a slightly breathed-on version of their old rubbish.

So it appears they've not even released any plans for broadcast 4K? They ramble on about being the best Netflix 4K system yet anyone with a 4K TV will have a built-in Netflix app already so what's the point?

Where are the satellite boxes which stream from the main one? I see they've said their mobile apps will be able to do this to watch content recorded on the box but what about multi-room installations?

Looks like VM are going to to their usual thing of competing with Sky on price rather than functionality/features/quality. Hopeless.

Haha what a shambles. Im still on the Crappy Tivo Box waiting for the R24 update this box is just a complete pile of crap.

Shame there isn't a 2TB option - 1TB was fine until HD came along. A doubling of storage would have been nice. I know you always end up using what you have, but six tuners + 2TB would have been really tempting. Six tuners but no additional storage space, not quite so much. Although £99 isn't too bad - thought it might have been more like £199.

Totally agree.

Regarding 2TB, they have just come out with something wet like 'Two boxes gives you 12 tuners and 2TB'.

Also, who in their right mind would pay £299 for a VM branded tablet to stream content elsewhere in the house?

Seems to me that they've taken the existing TiVo software (which has a ton of functionality that is missing from SkyQ) and added the additional functionality that SkyQ has (4K and streaming between devices). Other than speed the old TiVo box still had the edge over SkyQ when it comes to functionality as a PVR, so the V6 should offer the best of both worlds, the superior TiVo functionality with the extra benefits that SkyQ currently offers.

And it has multi-room streaming, the original TiVo already had that anyway, and the V6 supports it as well, including streaming between the old TiVo and the V6.

I currently have SkyQ due to stupidly good deal, but I certainly intend to switch back to VM when my contract is up, TBH I'd rather have the current TiVo to the Q, so the V6 seems like a no-brainer.

The BBC article about this seemed to have a pretty negative tone.

IMHO VM are just playing catch up and little else. They are releasing a box that they should have done 18 months ago when £30 USB sticks had better performance than their TIVO boxes. The tablet just seems like a complete misstep - can anyone explain what the USP to this is?

I think that VM should be looking towards Amazon rather than Sky. Abandon the idea that people want to sign up to hundreds of channels and then record thousands of hours of programmes from them. Rather give them the tools to access online content and pay for what they want. The central idea around TIVO being a place to find content was great - it was just poorly executed.

AFAIK, people who are on the top package can get the new box for £49.95 installation fee. Why have many people on this forum reported that they've had one FOC? I'd really like one of them, but I'm not too keen on paying £50 for the privilege of borrowing VM's box...

Not sure we need 12 tuners. Six would solve issues though - its not that we record a huge amount, but between 9-10 there are three things on at the same time often enough to notice.

Looking at this page, you can tell they're really struggling to highlight amazing new features...

http://www.virginmedia.com/shop/camp...-v6-about.html

You can, um, search for stuff! It has Series Link + and a 1TB hard drive.

Weirdly, it doesn't mention the six tuners on that page.

Just realised we're on the Full House package, so would be £49, which is kinda tempting.

It is a bit fragmented in our house - we tend to use the Apple TV for Netflix / iPlayer - both are faster, and the iPlayer on Apple TV is by far the best version of it I've seen on any platform. Very intuitive, very good UI, and lightning fast.

£299 for the TellyTablet?

If it has the same functionality as an ipad\samsung tablet, who is going to pay that?

I guess it depends on the overall spec of the tablet and how long they will keep giving the tablet Android OS updates.

I won't be rushing out to order one. I don't have a 4K TV (yet), I don't see the need for 6 tuners (is there ever that much worth recording at the same time?) and it's the ugliest piece of gadgetry I've seen in years.

I disagree. Streaming is still a minority interest right now. (Unless you have any figures to prove otherwise?) I am certainly more than happy to, in the main, record standard TV shows in preference to streaming.

I'd happily have a V6 if there was a no-fee self-install option.

The TellyTablet is a 14" tablet sold directly by VM that'll run the Virgin TV apps, but as far as I know the apps themselves will continue to work on a range of mobile devices, same as TV Anywhere does now.

I wouldn't be so dismissive of streaming as it has seen and will continue to see the biggest growth going forward over the next few years. It's just such a shame that this launch just seems so underwhelming and they really need to be focussing on the next gen features and integrating ott services seamlessly. They also need small light, tv stick type clients for their multi room support not a large old TiVo or the new brick. 6 tuners seemed to be their main focus which means nothing to me although I appreciate some will like this. They were very dismissive of 4k which I have no need for at the moment but this is the future and this new box will be around for the next 10 years so sound a bit interested in it.

Whoever thought a huge, heavy, 14" tablet was a good idea needs to be fired.

Thinking of scaling back my package as the price rises, slow TiVo and general lack of future strategy are annoying me now. Sky seem to have a much better idea of how to design new products and services and how to market them.

As a SkyQ user, I have to disagree! The SkyQ box is a pretty basic PVR, very lacking compared to even the old TiVo, keep finding features missing that I used to use a lot, the latest one being the ability to use the phone app to see the list of what's currently recorded and upcoming recordings, which I would use most days to plan my viewing for the evening, apparently if you want that feature you have to pay for multi-screen