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Does that also apply to the 360 which I understand isn't TiVo but runs on the same hardware? 

Nope. Not the same hardware. Virgin TV 360 is based in the Horizon 4 hardware, which is an internal Liberty Global product used by its other companies in Europe (Ziggo, Telenet, Sunrise, UPC Slovakia and Virgin) and Chile (VTR); the product was initially developed for UPC Netherlands, which was absorbed by Ziggo after being acquired by Liberty, and later was rolled out to Belgium's Telenet and its German subsidiary Unitymedia (which has since been acquired by Vodafone and now conform to its cable hardware). The STBs used by the operators of the service are enabled for the Horizon hardware, hence their internal name, Horizon Eos.

www.libertyglobal.com 

I know this discussion is a while back but my understanding is that it’s basically the same hardware, but totally different software. At any rate the V6 and TV360 boxes are, if not in totally identical casing, very similar casing. That’s not to say that there are differences on the inside, of course.

In Ireland we never got the V6 or TiVo,  but had instead the original Horizon box. This in theory could do stuff Sky would only introduce years later with Sky Q, like apps and recording multiple channels . It was even supposed to have a multiroom slave box like Sky Q but that never arrived and so multiroom boxes remained (and do so to this day for those who still have Horizon) on the mid-2000s vintage UPC Mediabox platform. One trick it had was a built in broadband router, but broadband tech aged much faster than TV, so VM ended up issuing separate modems to those using the inbuilt router eventually. Regardless of all this, Horizon gained a rep for being very, very slow, in terms of scrolling around the EPG and menu options. I can only guess that this was because the tech was not powerful enough for all the features UPC/VM were trying to get it to do. The older UPC Mediaboxes, for all their faults, run at the speed of light compared to the original Horizon. For that reason VM Ireland never refer to the newer platform as “Horizon 4” but always “TV360”.