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kgollop 09-01-2018 16:58
Re: Please document any V6 issues here.
 
I've had an issue with Netflix on three separate occasions on the V6 now. Trying to play a show, it buffers to 24% and doesn't get any further. Stop doesn't work and trying to return to guide or TV results in a black screen. Only option is to pull the power on the box at this point. Once rebooted the "problem" title plays with no issue.

jb66 09-01-2018 17:08
Re: Please document any V6 issues here.
 
My fix for that was to put a v6 in, gutted it's now happening to v6

ozsat 09-01-2018 17:10
Re: Please document any V6 issues here.
 
The Netflix buffering issue seems to be a random issue across different devices on different ISPs.

The only common factor I have found is 'Netflix'.

Here is the BT stb on BT broadband - https://community.bt.com/t5/YouView-...5/td-p/1505987

kgollop 10-01-2018 10:22
Re: Please document any V6 issues here.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ozsat (Post 35931730)
The Netflix buffering issue seems to be a random issue across different devices on different ISPs.

The only common factor I have found is 'Netflix'.

Here is the BT stb on BT broadband - https://community.bt.com/t5/YouView-...5/td-p/1505987
It seems to be a very recent issue, I've had the two v6 boxes since just after release and haven't had it on either until the last couple weeks. Fair enough the buffering issue could be a Netflix fault, but surely it shouldn't require the plug to be pulled in order to exit the app...

qwakuk 10-01-2018 12:27
Re: Please document any V6 issues here.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by kgollop (Post 35931728)
I've had an issue with Netflix on three separate occasions on the V6 now. Trying to play a show, it buffers to 24% and doesn't get any further. Stop doesn't work and trying to return to guide or TV results in a black screen. Only option is to pull the power on the box at this point. Once rebooted the "problem" title plays with no issue.
Also seen this, annoying but easy fix

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New issue yesterday, had watched a program and went back to my shows, selected another and just got a blank screen. Tried pulling HDMI cables and reseating, powering down amp, tv, V6. Only way to get a pcitre was to pull the power on the V6 box.

It was actually very hot to the touch so assume heat was the cause:td:

RichardCoulter 10-01-2018 20:33
Re: Please document any V6 issues here.
 
These boxes were built without a fan to keep costs down.

BenMcr 10-01-2018 20:46
Re: Please document any V6 issues here.
 
I'm pretty sure there is a fan in the V6 box

jb66 10-01-2018 21:47
Re: Please document any V6 issues here.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35931891)
I'm pretty sure there is a fan in the V6 box
I'm 100% positive there is, anyway fans are not expensive

spiderplant 10-01-2018 21:55
Re: Please document any V6 issues here.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35931891)
I'm pretty sure there is a fan in the V6 box
Indeed there is.

Though it's unlikely it was overheating. If it was, it would shut down with a message on the screen like this

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2018/01/5.jpg


qwakuk: Call VM if it happens again.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35931886)
These boxes were built without a fan to keep costs down.
If a box needs a fan, it gets a fan. An unreliable box would cost VM a lot more than a fan would.

alwaysabear 10-01-2018 21:57
Re: Please document any V6 issues here.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35931886)
These boxes were built without a fan to keep costs down.
Fans are cheap as chips you only have to look at case fans on Amazon, so I cannot see that being a factor.

spiderplant 11-01-2018 08:27
Re: Please document any V6 issues here.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by alwaysabear (Post 35931900)
Fans are cheap as chips you only have to look at case fans on Amazon, so I cannot see that being a factor.
I'd rather not have fans in STBs, but not because of the cost. They can be noisy and unreliable things. But if they are needed, they are needed.

Incidentally, the V6 has 11 temperature sensors. Not exactly cost-cutting!

carbon60 11-01-2018 10:42
Re: Please document any V6 issues here.
 
I've never heard any noise coming from my V6 box and I'm normally the one nearest the TV. However my 500GB regular TiVo often makes rumbling noises which can get quite loud and from what I've read that doesn't have a fan. I don't think it has ever forgiven me when I moved it to a different room.

BenMcr 11-01-2018 11:07
Re: Please document any V6 issues here.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by carbon60 (Post 35931963)
I've never heard any noise coming from my V6 box and I'm normally the one nearest the TV. However my 500GB regular TiVo often makes rumbling noises which can get quite loud and from what I've read that doesn't have a fan. I don't think it has ever forgiven me when I moved it to a different room.
I think that's down to the hard drives used.

My understanding is that the older TiVo uses 3.5" desktop hard drives, and the V6 boxes use 2.5" laptop drives.

So Laptop drives are almost always quieter than desktop drives.

peanut 11-01-2018 11:29
Re: Please document any V6 issues here.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kushan (Post 35931724)
So I just got Virgin installed again today, after quite the ordeal. It came with a V6 box, except it doesn't seem to work with my setup.

I have an AMP between it and my TV, if I connect to the AMP I get a HDCP 2.2 error. From looking around, this appears to be a known issue - the issue isn't the AMP (Which is 2.2 compliant) but actually the TV, which isn't. Stupidly, if I plug directly into the TV it does work but I don't get my nice surround.

I've done some Googling and it seems this is a known issue and in fact by design as per the HDMI spec - no downgrades to older HDCP versions, either everything is the same version or nothing is. So far the ONLY solution I've seen for this is to use a box to strip the HDCP protection back to 1.4, but this also means you lose Dolby/DTS unless you also connect via optical. That seems like a frustrating and poor workaround to me.

Is my above information correct? Is there anything I could have missed? If there's a way of getting this to work properly, as in just one HDMI cable from the V6 to my amp then I'm all ears, otherwise I'll be requesting they remove the V6 box entirely as I'm not faffing about with multiple inputs for some basic TV.
I had the very same problem with my Yamaha amp, in the end I had to get this. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I still get DD5.1 via the V6 box, so all good in the end.

OLD BOY 11-01-2018 11:55
Re: Please document any V6 issues here.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by carbon60 (Post 35931963)
I've never heard any noise coming from my V6 box and I'm normally the one nearest the TV. However my 500GB regular TiVo often makes rumbling noises which can get quite loud and from what I've read that doesn't have a fan. I don't think it has ever forgiven me when I moved it to a different room.
It might just be the surface on which the TiVo rests. You might like to think about putting some sort of padding underneath the box to dampen the noise.


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