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Originally Posted by Ddonald2016
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Does the comment below mean If both are connected by wifi then you can record 12 shows are once, without having to say what box and does it show 2tb on either box
" Virgin Media has cleverly designed the new boxes to connect to each other and increase the storage. For example, if you have two Virgin TV V6 boxes, your storage capacity increases to 2TB (1TB per box) and you can record up to 12 shows at once. You can then play them back on either box without knowing, nor caring where the programme is stored"
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There was rumoured to be a 2TB box available, but nothing has been formally announced.
Here's why I have a feeling it won't happen.
Sky Q, 2TB, 350 hours of HD
TiVo, 1TB, 100 hours of HD
175 hrs v 100 hrs is a massive difference.
Apparently, it's because of the different compression formats. Sky use MPEG4 which is more efficient than the MPEG format which Virgin use for their live TV.
As VM are gradually phasing out their old boxes and will be changing over to MPEG4 when this is complete, this should mean that our TiVo boxes will take longer to fill up.
Maybe that's why they haven't (so far) announced the rumoured 2TB box, as the new compression format will effectively mean that the box will be 1.75TB compared to the old system??