Technology, church music, bicycles, and life in Ireland
With UPC confirming recently that it is to re-brand to Virgin Media over the next few months, it will be interesting to see if they also introduce one of Virgin’s products to Ireland – the TiVo. TiVo Series 1 I had one of the original TiVo Series 1 boxes that was on sale for a […]
I wrote back in January about some of the interface problems with the Horizon box, and thankfully some of them seems to have been solved with a recent software update. The general navigation speed seems to have increased The dreaded “Delete Everything” option has been relocated to the depths of a Preference screen, where it can’t […]
Over the last few weeks UPC has rolled out a service in Ireland called Horizon Wi-Free. The service allows UPC broadband customers who are visiting the homes of other UPC customers with a Horizon box to get free WiFi. You don’t need to ask your friends and family to share their WiFi password with you, […]
Update 29-Aug-2014 – a software update to the Horizon box in the last couple of days seems to have solved some of these problems – see:UPC Ireland – Horizon Software Update Horizon is UPC’s premium TV offering, and has several advantages over other TV/DVR systems, such as: Ability to record up to 4 TV shows […]
Seems that NTL (or rather UPC) are having a bit of trouble with servicing my area at the moment. On Friday evening the whole network went down for about two hours, cutting off both my TV and broadband signal. And then this evening the broadband internet disappeared for another couple of hours. I used to […]
More fun and games with the UPC so-called customer care department this weekend. After inspecting my cable TV bill a bit more carefully than usual, I noticed that UPC were charging me for the use of two digiboxes. Now back when I lived at my old house last year, that was accurate, but since I […]
