Hello and today we're gonna take a very quick look at the Virgin Media V6 box.
I've been a Virgin Media customer for some time now,
this has arrived today, just try see how to get into it, so I'm about two weeks
from the end of my contract, it's a great time to call and ask for some upgrades.
If you've been with Virgin Media for a while you'll know the V6 box was
originally £100. I called up, got through to the
cancellation team and told them I wasn't happy I was gonna cancel, all the usual
they upgraded me from 150 Internet to 200, V6 box free of charge with the self
install and I kept my TV and phone line package exactly the same and that came
to some like £54 a month. So if you do call up be nice, polite with
them, it was a really nice chap I spoke to and he gave me a good deal so
just open this up we've got 'Activate, Install, Just follow the instructions, after
calling please lift this flat and grab the set up guide' let's take a look at
what's in the box, we've got HDMI cable, ethernet cable, self
install guide, "there's no need to return your old box so you can just recycle it
by going to..." your old TIVO you just recycle it rather than sending it back to Virgin Media.
We've got the new remote, fairly similar to the old remote.
New remote.
A little spanner, the V6 box itself which is really small in comparison to the
standard TiVo box, which again I'll show you a comparison once I've got it all unwrapped.
Very nice, so this is one terabyte box.
Power brick.
There's also a guide for the new TV services. Let's do a quick comparison and
then I'll see about getting this set up and running.
If you're an existing TiVo
customer you will absolutely love the small size of the new V6, it is tiny in
comparison, yet it offers a lot more. So here it is in profile, it's a tiny little
box, but it packs in a lot more storage space, this has a terabyte of storage space my
old TiVo had just 500 gig and it now has zero card slots on the back, so you used to
have to have these little card things that just plugs in you see doesn't plug
in anywhere. I had some problems getting this set up you had to call to activate
but the first time I tried work.
"To activate your new equipment please press 1"
"We're sorry, but we're unable to activate your new equipment right now."
I waited 20 minutes or so, tried again and it
worked fine, then you have to wait for it to go through the setup process where
it's getting connected its sorting out all your channels, verifying, so let me
just show you these two remotes the one on the right is my original TiVO remote,
the one on the left is the new V6 remote, you can see it's slightly squatter it
has all the same buttons but it's a little bit more compact. It feels just
the same in the hand it's very nicely weighted and just close up you can
see absolutely everything is the same it's just a bit more compact. I have to
say that the biggest benefit to me is the menu speed. This is the original TiVo
I am showing you now, let's just do a quick comparison of searching for
something on catch up. So we've now got the V6 is the larger screen, the TiVo is in
the bottom right, and you see straight away we're off and I'm just going to
search for Doctor Who. Everything about the V6 is so much faster I found the
TiVo incredibly frustrating and this was one of the points I raised when I was on
the call getting this sorted out I said that the original TiVO was just so slow,
iPlayer wasn't very good and as soon as he heard this they know that the V6 is so
much better so you can see I'm straight into iPlayer so I have to say it's worth
the upgrade alone just for the speedy menu system. While making
this review news broke that Virgin Media we're actually going to be upgrading all
existing customers to the V6 so you may not actually have to go down the
cancellation route like I did. I'm not quite sure what the upgrade process will be
you'll need to check that out with Virgin. If you are towards the end of your contract
don't wait for an upgrade, ring up and go via the cancellation routes anyway
because you may find you can get a better deal by haggling with them you'll
get the V6 box and as I said earlier I was upgraded to 200 meg and
they shaved a few pounds off my monthly bill. I hope you found this short
overview useful, if you have please consider him the subscribe button, thanks
for watching I'll see you next time.