TiVo

[whizzard]

Originally Posted by jb66

There are more trial phases

Though the VIPs shall enter the field of dreams shortly

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by whizzard

Though the VIPs shall enter the field of dreams shortly

Is there any point now after todays article --
Neil Berkett has an announcement to make: Virgin Media's battle with Sky for the pay-TV market is over.

Originally Posted by muppetman11

currently available to Virgin's premium customers

I'm a premium customer but it's not available to me.

So am I, and I have put my name down for it - but I can wait.....

[Nedkelly]

Training has started for the techs so it cant be long now

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

currently available to Virgin's premium customers

I'm a premium customer but it's not available to me.

As stated earlier it never said all premium customers. Your time will come soon though

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

But he states its available now to premium customers.

I think he got a tiny bit ahead of himself. although he is not far off

[Chad]

I don't think Neil Berkett actually says "TiVo, currently available to Virgin's premium customers", I believe these are the words of the lady who wrote the article.

Maybe I'm reading the article incorrectly, but the TIVO available to premium customers isn't a direct quote from Berkett.

[ess1]

May the Tivo hype continue please. As a Sky customer (just VM up to err... 50MB ??), I am sure they will roll out extra programmes - Atlantic springs to mind - and be amenable to offering goodies to existing clients.

We shall see

[Firmsky]

I have signed up on the Website too, feel's like age's ok and still no update. It must be coming soon, had a VM engineer round the other week to check my V+ box and he stated he currently had the TiVo installed and that it was an awesome bit of kit. Obviously he said he could comment no further just that it will be worth the wait.

What I think VM should do ASAP to keep customer's happy is to issue a price and release date for all customer's on all tier's so people can start saving etc.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by Firmsky

I have signed up on the Website too, feel's like age's ok and still no update. It must be coming soon, had a VM engineer round the other week to check my V+ box and he stated he currently had the TiVo installed and that it was an awesome bit of kit. Obviously he said he could comment no further just that it will be worth the wait.

What I think VM should do ASAP to keep customer's happy is to issue a price and release date for all customer's on all tier's so people can start saving etc.

Agreed I heard a price of 189 all in for existing XL and VIP customers but nothing concrete.

[whizzard]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Agreed I heard a price of 189 all in for existing XL and VIP customers but nothing concrete.

All that's been confirmed is that it will be £189 for existing customers with an addition £3 monthly charge (this is also the Mates Rates tariff).

For new customers it will be £239 with the additional monthly £3 charge.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by whizzard

All that's been confirmed is that it will be £189 for existing customers with an addition £3 monthly charge (this is also the Mates Rates tariff).

For new customers it will be £239 with the additional monthly £3 charge.

A friend of mine installs for VM and said its very close now to launch.

[Andy C]

Originally Posted by Stephen

As stated earlier it never said all premium customers. Your time will come soon though

Hopefully sooner rather than later... I've still got an old silver TVDrive and the HDD is about to die imo. Many HD recordings start to play then end after 12 minutes, not allowing you to go past that time to carry on, playback of a HD recording can be affected if recording another HD channel (it stutters and jumps, occasionally the box will reboot) and if recording two HD channels the poor drive sounds like it's going to fall out of the box.

I don't really see the point of a swap out now when I'll be wanting to swap it for TiVo as soon as it's available (I am a VIP customer).


Andy.

[Felim_Doyle]

Originally Posted by Chad

I don't think Neil Berkett actually says "TiVo, currently available to Virgin's premium customers", I believe these are the words of the lady who wrote the article.

Maybe I'm reading the article incorrectly, but the TIVO available to premium customers isn't a direct quote from Berkett.

Feel better, Chad. You're not the only one to notice that it was Amanda Andrews, Media Editor, The Telegraph who said all of that, not Neil Berkett, although she misleadingly attributed it to him.

I also feel that she misrepresented some of the functionality of the TiVo box by confusing previous statements about its 10Mb internet connection being separate from the family's main broadband connection and the TiVo actually having browser functionality.

Journalists! You can't believe a word they say someone else said!

There is an article here that seems to suggest our chances of getting lovefilm on tivo are enhanced by the take over of Love film by Amazon

Fortunately, with Amazon striding into the picture (and, if necessary, the Competition Commission willing), Lovefilm has a better chance than most of doing the right kind of deals with the Hollywood studios – who will be mindful of maintaining a good relationship with "Earth's biggest selection", or whatever Amazon calls itself.

Apparently movie streaming is big business in the States but is prevented from taking off here due to one company owning the rights. With a company as big as Amazon getting involved, then we might stand a chance of the monopoly being challenged. Just what we need. Interesting reference to the competition comission possibly getting involved as well. Things are getting more interesting.