SimonD

Hi,
I want to get the recording functionality of the V+ box but only have an old (2002 Panasonic) plasma monitor. I understand that this is a HD box. I'm not expecting any improvement in picture - just want to make sure that the picture won't be worse than my old NTL/Samsung box.
I'll be getting a new Plasma (or maybe LED) in the next 18months or so but don't want to get into problems and fault reporting with the VM infrastructure!

Any experiences or knowledge that might help?
Cheers
Simon

Jamescsti

I have a v+ hd box which you are looking at. It has both scart and hdmi outputs so assuming you have a scart socket you can connect to your tv through that. And you have the hd socket available for when you get a new tv

SimonD

Thanks for that. Unfortunately it seems that there are no delivery/engineer time slots available until the New Year though. They must be missing out on a lot of seasonal business if that is the case. How long does it take to switch one box for another?

Jamescsti

If you already have virgin to your house I.e a standard box I don't see what the issue is, should be just pull old one out and plug new one in. They sort the rest out in their service centre. They insisted on sending an engineer out to put mine in yet when I first got virgin with a standard box they just sent it all via courier and said crack on!
Can't understand them sometimes.

Proby521

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When I had my standard box upgraded to V+, the guy (I'm not calling him an engineer, christ, installing cable boxes is not an 'Engineers' job) had to plug it in, then call up the office, tell them the serial numbers/ID codes and get it switched on for extra services etc. Only took 20 mins max.