Virgin UK's TIVO box no longer uses a smartcard, but a central cardserver over IP, and (afaik) nobody has made an open source CAM that can talk to it yet.
So yes, it can no longer be used with an E2 receiver.
As far as I know, Virgin Ireland, which is ex-UPC, (still) uses the Horizon box, same as Ziggo. However, they don't use Irdeto, they use a Nagra 3 "Merlin" card.
I have no idea if that card is supported by a softcam.
Currently in use: VU+ Duo 4K (2xFBC S2), VU+ Solo 4K (1xFBC S2), uClan Usytm 4K Pro (S2+T2), Octagon SF8008 (S2+T2), Zgemma H9.2H (S2+T2)
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