Virgin Media TiVo Getting 15.2 Update Starting – Now.

Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2011 by MegaZone

Virgin Media TiVo Virgin Media TiVo users will begin receiving the big 15.2 software update today, 11/17, according to a notice sent to customers. The update will be rolling out over the course of the next week, and should be complete by 11/24. If you want to know exactly when to expect the update in your service area, the Media Boy Blog got the scoop on the specifics.

The Virgin Media High Definition & TiVo Services blog (they really need a catchier name, or at least a shorter one…) has a capture of the paper copy of the notice as sent to customers and it contains another bit of news. The Spotify app will be hitting VM TiVo’s on 11/29 under Apps & Games. No word yet on Spotify coming to US TiVos, though TiVo was asking about interest back in July. They also have a summary of review comments posted about the early test release that started last month.

The Virgin Media TiVo Blog mentions a couple of other changes in this release. In the past when you paused VOD content the pause would timeout in 3 minutes. This has been extended to 10 minutes, which is a much more reasonable time. And the tick marks, which have traditionally been set every 15 minutes in a program (used for ‘skip to tick’ and the like) now occur every five minutes. So you have a much finer control over when you jump, though it will take three times as many jumps to get to a given point I suppose.

A video of the update was posted by a user a couple of weeks ago:

Video pick up via The Virgin Media TiVo Blog.

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  • http://www.twitter.com/brennokbob Brennok

    It is going to be interesting to see how the automatic padding is accepted. I know the UK channels are supposed to be really bad about running on time, but forced padding doesn’t seem like the answer. Hopefully they are able to change it to optional quickly if it turns a lot of customers off.

  • http://www.twitter.com/brennokbob Brennok

    It is going to be interesting to see how the automatic padding is accepted. I know the UK channels are supposed to be really bad about running on time, but forced padding doesn’t seem like the answer. Hopefully they are able to change it to optional quickly if it turns a lot of customers off.

  • http://www.twitter.com/brennokbob Brennok

    It is going to be interesting to see how the automatic padding is accepted. I know the UK channels are supposed to be really bad about running on time, but forced padding doesn’t seem like the answer. Hopefully they are able to change it to optional quickly if it turns a lot of customers off.

  • http://www.twitter.com/brennokbob Brennok

    It is going to be interesting to see how the automatic padding is accepted. I know the UK channels are supposed to be really bad about running on time, but forced padding doesn’t seem like the answer. Hopefully they are able to change it to optional quickly if it turns a lot of customers off.

  • http://www.twitter.com/brennokbob Brennok

    It is going to be interesting to see how the automatic padding is accepted. I know the UK channels are supposed to be really bad about running on time, but forced padding doesn’t seem like the answer. Hopefully they are able to change it to optional quickly if it turns a lot of customers off.

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