V Plus Digital Box

I bought this V+ box from virgin media when it was on half price offer almost two years ago and it cost me £75. It was money well spent! It gives you 80 hours to record programmes. You can set a whole series to record, record a show for the week or choose the episodes you want. As well as one off programmes and films. You can pause live TV and rewind it as long as you have been on the channel for a while - you can only rewind it as long as you have had it on the channel (so you cant turn it on to a channel and see a show that's already been on for 10 minutes and rewind it to the beginning) You can then fast forward it during adverts if you ...  Read the complete review

Virgin V Plus Box - Attempts to catch up to Sky domination? Seems to be working Been with Virgin (NTL before taken over) for a few years now. The biggest problems we've been having with them are that the box used to keep freezing and crashing however this new V plus box seems to of solved all that. The V plus box is an attempt made by Virgin to attract more TV customers and it seems to be working. I always kept bugging my dad for us to switch to sky but now I can't really see the point. The only reason I wanted to switch to sky was to get sky 1, sky sports and sky movies but with Virgin I can now get those anyway, nowadays there seems to be very little ...  Read the complete review

Virgins equivalent of Sky + is a superb Personal Video Recorder in my opinion It allows you to pause and rewind live tv. You can record 2 channels while watching a 3rd. It has up to 80 hours of recording capacity. It is also an HD source meaning you can watch HD content assuming you have an HD TV. The box also has the features of other Virgin/NTL boxes, including catch up tv (including BBC Iplayer), movies and music on demand etc. I have had Sky + in the past and actually prefer this product. I have no loyalty whatsoever to Virgin, in fact I think their customer services and engineers are diabolical, yet I must admit thir V+ box is ...  Read the complete review

My house does not have a BT phone line and therefore getting sky television would mean an expensive and difficult switch over and so i decided to opt for going with virgin television, and recently purchased a V+ box, that has all the capabilities in terms of recording that the sky+ option has. You also get the pro that the on demand service covers channel 4 and BBC which is a bonus. However i have been left feeling a little frustrated. Around 8 months ago virgin, despite being more expensive on average per customer than sky, decided not to pay for one of the best channel sky one and therefore i now miss out on some of my favorite shows like LOST. Also despite paying a HD ...  Read the complete review

My family have always had a sky box but recently because of changes to the phone line we have had to change to virgin. I was a little uneasy at the swap as i did not think i wuld have the same great programmes i have always had but i was wrong to doubt it. The v+ box is amazing. i have even found it easier to use than sky plus. The remote for the box has a top section dedicated to the recording and pausing of programmes. The V+ button on the remote sends you straight to your recorded programmes page from you programme. You have 80 hours of recording time whch is plenty of soaps or movies. The box in itself is stylish and chic, created by samsung it ...  Read the complete review