Hello all this mrix and today I've got a little rant about Virgin
Media basically I've been looking at the TV over the past weeks and I've been
noticing all the time that you know Virgin Media is flashing up on the
screen all these wonderful deals for new members when you join up you kid there's
one bundle that you can have a full the full bundle loads and loads of channels
you get the brand-new v6 box then you come out around Christmas time and you
can get you know to 4k it does and actually has you can record up to six
channels all very very good you know 200 Meg broadband connection good phone line
etc and nice bundle there and I don't really get that really I'm a long-term a
member of virgin, I have been a member for that at least eight years and basically I
wasn't happy you know I think it's like rubbing it in your face a little bit
when you keep seeing all these lovely deals for new members and over the years
your deal gets worse and worse and worse and worse
anyway I rang up one of their reps and he explained that's only for new members
you know you have to you know you only get enticed of basically enticing new
people to come across it understand what I said well you know I've been a loyal
member for eight years why do I have to actually you know do I only get one good
deal when I join a tiers ago and I never get a good deal again or do you know
what do i do do I cancel virgin and then come back in a year where I will get a
really good deal and then the telephone conversation went on for a long time I
spend about three quarts of an hour then after that I decided to say fair enough
you know actually a patience etc and it cogitated on my mind and then I thought
to myself why on earth would virgin want to lose long-term loyal paying members
to take on some new member offering all this and maybe lose them in eighteen
months so I thought well I'll go down the cancellation line and I was going to
actually he canceled because I was just fuming
and I went to the cancellation line in a totally different person actually come
online and said that I could have the deal but and then I said well is it with
the V six box he said well no but we could do it that we could throw that in
as well so that's great I said basically I got the full bundle and
said yes and also I said I'm not interested in the early you know the
early deal as long as I I get the you know the deal after payment and he said
well no you can have the you know you can have a discount as well which is it
just got better and better and better and it really renewed my faith in virgin
media and unfortunately it took me to get to the cancellation line to make me
feel a lot better about Virgin Media, ironically about Virgin Media now I've
basically got everything, I've got my new bundle come yesterday and it's the v6
box by Virgin Media and it's actually capable of 4k and anyway we're going to
that in a little bit let me just switch off for a moment you may give me tonsils
of breath of air, right back again had a bit of a breath now this is it this is
the box it's actually quite a small box and it's quite featureless but it does
the job, it's you know it's not much to look at really a plus and minus
there for probably maybe I'd a nice volume and on/off button and your logo
or the Virgin Media let's take a look around it's pretty much nothing round
the side it's all happening round the back right and round the back
you've got on the left here where my thumb is you've got the coax him
actually broadband obvious it'll drop it and break it you've got the audio you've
got a start out you've got here I'm using HDMI I've got HTMI you've got USB
You got the Ethernet cable connection you're going to need a form of wireless for this box
updating etc and it's I'm using an Ethernet router through a actual plug socket
that uses their wires in the in the wall, you got an order the audio
and power and just an on-off switch and that's about
all you've got for the box well I tell you what I've been using the TiVo box
for that five years and this box is lightning fast in comparison to the TiVo
box now like I say it's it's got it it's ready for 4K output which is great
about tii get a 4k TV soon I suppose the box you could of made it look a little bit better
it look a little bit more cosmetically designed you know looking
box is quite sort of little plain but I'm not really bothered by that to
be honest with you it does have it has a one terabyte storage facility so that's
give you up to about I don't know 500 hours I think they said what else have
we've got we've got a new remote yes let's take a look at that new remote and
I just happen to have the old remote here got a lot of care here on so we'll
get I can't hear off and basically doesn't I think you see on the video if
we can drop that up there maybe prop out there but there you go
this is different it is actually a lot smaller but strangely enough it is
pretty much most of the buttons whenever I look it seems to have pretty
much all the buttons but my smaller strange enough and and the new controller
has got some sort of RF sort of trap the transmitting technology and it's so much
better there's so much more responsive and it
will you know you can put it anywhere you can put your hand in front and it
still operates this box I mean the box can be put right back out the way or
within a cabinet and it will still work make sure that you've got the the actual
box you know still aerated because it can still overheat and you could run
into problem but yeah the control is pretty much the same as the old TiVo box
controller but it's smaller and much more easier to hold it much better in
the hand and far more responsive anyway but I want to keep draggin on about all
the technicalities of this box because there's so much online you can read up
about it I don't wanna waste my waste of my time
or your time talking about that moment but that's what we can do now is just
show you it fired up and looking for the menus on the TV just to give you an idea
of speed right right back again I've got the Box plugged in it's just under the
TV down there and here you go and we're just remember just to flip for easier
than the menus because the old TV box if you've got the old TV box is very
very slow, slow loading up when you get to this stage very slow through the
menus but all certainly the box I had, it was quite a old one mind
don't have a improve that later on but this new one a new v6 box is really
really fast I mean literally no problem just flipping through the menus no delay
lets just go to the channels all channels, ah flip downs through, I noticed like you got
nice little itv4 icons on the left did not notice this before, that wasn't there before
um on this new package I just got just absolutely loads and loads and
loads of choices now which is brilliant because before it was pretty much worse
than a free-view box it was that bad and now I got no end, I could spend all day
looking pretty menu goes on and on and on with that full bundle fantastic!
what else? and also, lets just press the home button go back here it tends to
the apps are faster as well I mean when I used to just go own up favourite just go
back again let's go to all apps, when I used to fire up YouTube it used to be
you take a month of Sundays to actually work but this one it will delay a little
bit but hopefully as you see it's loading up straightaway and of you TiVo
Old TiVo box users well you know it would take a lot longer to load something up like
this but you know it's pretty dam instant with um the v6
one good feature the v6 is that you can actually stream to other devices so if
you've got like an iPad some other former tablet you can
actually watch programs from streaming from this box if you've downloaded them
so that's fantastic little touch I'm sure there's loads of other bits and
pieces that will starts cropping up which are really really like I mean I'm
interested to get in there 4k TVs soon so that you're the 4k feature within
this is going to be brilliant and that's about it I'm not going to drone on any
longer it's just that I suppose the end of the story to summarize is that you if
you're if you're bid a long-term loyal customer and Salas TiVo box you just
check out your bundles you know there's a lot of the bundles down at the moment
in this full bundle it's pretty damn good I'm very pleased with it and now
it's basically rekindled my faith in virgin media so I'm happy again but
wasn't a happy chappy with all that anyway best of luck to all and now best
of luck with your bundles take care mrix signing off