Originally Posted by ahardie[/B

Well like you I'm not bothered about getting Sky Atlantic for myself but can see advantages to having a tivo box so I guess we are both exeptions to your rule. :). Or at least will be when the tivo boxes are sold at a price that is to your liking.

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35148305)

Last two nights mate on Silent Witness HD tried other HD and that was the same , the funny thing is it let me watch Silent Witness in SD no problem. It was from about 7pm - 10 pm we tried.

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35148305)

Last two nights mate on Silent Witness HD tried other HD and that was the same , the funny thing is it let me watch Silent Witness in SD no problem. It was from about 7pm - 10 pm we tried.

Originally Posted by mersey70 (Post 35148289)

I genuinely couldn't disagree with you more, a channel that shows, amongst other things, HBO shows is more niche than a set top box? 10 million Sky homes will have access to SA at launch, how many Tivo boxes are VM planning to rent out! You do know that there are less than 3m in circulation in the US, I don't know how many homes are in the US but over 300m people live there!

Let's agree to disagree as we are poles apart me thinks.



I would not be interested in Tivo unless it gives me access to new content, price isn't the main reason I am not too keen.

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There are stacks and stacks of posts on DS about this issue although I have never experienced it personally.

Something to do with the servers being overloaded so some people say.

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic (Post 35148308)

I'll have a look in to it tomorrow when in the office. With 9132 if you keep trying then you should eventually get it, but I know it can be frustrating when you want to watch something. :)

Originally Posted by mersey70 (Post 35148306)

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I would not be interested in Tivo unless it gives me access to new content, price isn't the main reason I am not too keen.

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There are stacks and stacks of posts on DS about this issue although I have never experienced it personally.

Something to do with the servers being overloaded so some people say.

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic (Post 35148311)

It's contention if you get 9132. Server upgrades are being done. VOD is getting more popular all the time.

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic (Post 35148311)

It's contention if you get 9132. Server upgrades are being done. VOD is getting more popular all the time.

Originally Posted by mersey70 (Post 35148306)

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I would not be interested in Tivo unless it gives me access to new content, price isn't the main reason I am not too keen. Maybe things will change in the future so we will see.

Originally Posted by mersey70 (Post 35148306)

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I would not be interested in Tivo unless it gives me access to new content, price isn't the main reason I am not too keen. Maybe things will change in the future so we will see.

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35146801)

Exactly. I would be curious to know how many non-HD TV sets were sold, compared to the number of HD TV sets sold, during 2009 and 2010. The statistic is a little meaningless otherwise.

The more meanigful statistic is the basically static number of UK homes with a pay TV subscription of any kind - about 15 million, on a generous rounding up of BT plus VM plus Sky (incidentally, by last March only 2.5 million of those had an HD sub). There are about 26 million households in the UK, which is a pretty vast number of people, and, coupled with the suggestion that there are upwards of 24 million HDTVs now sold in the UK, suggests that:

1. Almost everyone now has an HDTV;
2. Perhaps one-in-10 HDTVs are connected to a subscription-based HD broadcast receiver.

There has always been a healthy scepticism over the worth of pay-TV in this country. Most (if not all) of those who own an HDTV and do not subscribe to a pay service, are either using Freesat (which has sold well over a million units, about a million of which are HD), are content to wait for Freeview HD to launch in their area, or simply don't care one way or the other.

Originally Posted by devilincarnate (Post 35148337)

As i posted over on the TIVO thread could the box be able to give you full access to the web-site based players ( E.G BBC-PLAYER etc ) and not just the basic version that we seem to be getting now.

Originally Posted by Stuart (Post 35148344)

I think part of the problem here is that our government rushed the companies involved to introduce digital TV before HD standards were agreed.

This, I think has resulted in TV companies being a little reluctant to invest in HD equipment, having (in a lot of cases) invested in digital-ready SD equipment in the last few years.

The Americans, on the other hand, waited a little while, then went for HD. They also have the advantage that a lot of production companies are also involved in film making, so would have invested in HD equipment anyway (it can be used for film as well).

Originally Posted by ken1234 (Post 35148351)

just hope Sky Atlantic hd come to virgin soon befor the year out

Originally Posted by mersey70 (Post 35148346)

Don't know but I can get that content now through the i-player as my PC is connected to my TV and works a treat, I would hope for something new and exclusive to sway me to Tivo really.

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I thought digital TV has been around in the US years before we got it?

Originally Posted by devilincarnate (Post 35148364)

Yes but would it be better to have one box to do it all.

Originally Posted by devilincarnate (Post 35148364)

Yes but would it be better to have one box to do it all.