Virgin Tivo & Magic eye

poppyred

please bare with me as i'm not a very techie minded girl but could do with a bit of help :-

At the moment i have Virgin Media ordinary box and i have a magic eye pluged in the back so when i want to watch telly in the bedroom i can just put the cable box on the chanel i want to watch and jobs a good one.

I've just phoned Virgin Media and requested the new TIVO box £49.95 plus £3 each month which will do me fine as apparentley i can record on it so do away with the video (i did say i wasn't techy minded).

I'm just a bit worried now as the Virgin guy said the enginer will take away my existing box and replace it with the TIVO box which looks totally different, will i still be able to plug the magic eye into the TIVO Box and put it on the chanel i want to watch in the bedroom ??

I know it sounds daft but i'm worried about it and thinking of calling them back to cancel it all and keep what i have.... any help would be great.

bengalknights

If it has the same output socket then it should work, best to ask virgin.

poppyred

bengalknights wrote: »

If it has the same output socket then it should work, best to ask virgin.

thanks for your help, i've just phoned Virgin but they don't seem to understand what i'm asking, they didn't even know what a magic eye is but said the engineer maybe able to help but i think by then it would be too late

spike7451

If the magic eye's plugged into the SCART,then it should work,although you'll only get channels in SD.As to the VM engineer removing the old box,that's correct as all the equipment you got from VM remains their property at all times & must be returned if you upgrade equipment (like you are doing) or leave VM.(This included the TIVO box)

steve1980

If the Tivo box is the same as this (http://support.mytivo.com.au/index.php?action=artikel&cat=13&id=6&artlang=en) then it will not let you have a magic eye. Nice way to make you get 2 boxes!