Thread: Tivo V6 Tech advice on upgrade
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Old 23-03-2017, 16:32   #1
kered10
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Tech advice on upgrade

I'm not in a big hurry to upgrade to V6, but when I do make the leap, I'll need to change my setup, which currently has:

Roof aerial to splitter, one branch to LG Smart TV, one branch into coax combiner.

Virgin coax into TiVo, HDMI out to LG Smart TV, Scart out to RF modulator. RF/coax out joins in with combiner above to send combined signal to second room (via booster amplifier) where the non-smart TV can see the same thing as the TiVo outputs, by analog tuner, and also tunes digitally to all the Freeview channels.

If I did order a V6, and moved the other TiVo to the second room, would Virgin be prepared to use my (good quality) coax to feed their signal to the TiVo in the second room, where I could use powerline to give it the connection to the router (the other room has hard wired connection to the router in a third room!) and use the multi-room functions that Virgin offer.

If not, I could just upgrade my existing setup, ditch the old TiVo, and as there is no RF out or Scart out from V6, I would need to shell out for either HDMI-via-powerline, or HDMI-via-coax, to feed the V6 output to the second room.

As I said at the start, this isn't really imminent, just pondering options. Any thoughts welcome.

Derek
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