Re: Telewest: 2005 for VOD and PVR
 

Actually, it's more likely to be an area trial than an employee trial, thinking about it.

Not that it really matters. I just want it. Now!

Re: Telewest: 2005 for VOD and PVR
 

How do you reach that sweaping statement?

Re: Telewest: 2005 for VOD and PVR
 

Hmm, perhaps something to do with a wide range of indicators, including industry analysts and both company's own shareholders?



http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/s...368697,00.html
http://networks.silicon.com/telecoms...9126643,00.htm
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...p?story=600048

Re: Telewest: 2005 for VOD and PVR
 

However as quoted in the FT today
But the article also mentions
and also Tveter and Duffy highlight nicely
Note: unless you subscribe to FT.com this link is only good for today.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/6d5f6b0e-69...00e2511c8.html

Re: Telewest: 2005 for VOD and PVR
 

Screenshots of Telewest VOD here: http://www.telewestinfo.co.uk/moviesondemand.shtml

Is anyone here on the VOD trial?
 

Sorry to start another thread but the moderator seemed to misread my previous post when he kindly replied with an answer to whatever it was he thought I had asked then promptly closed the thread so I can't reply! :)

What I was asking is that although the trial has been announced, what evidence do we have that it isn't all simply made up? And I would like to know how Telewest's interface is different from the screenshots I've seen of NTL while you're actually watching the film.

Re: Is anyone here on the VOD trial?
 

I think he wanted you to post in the existing Telewest VOD thread - but it would have been better if he'd merged the threads! Like you, I haven't seen anything posted by actual Telewest VOD users.

Re: Is anyone here on the VOD trial?
 

Actually, I think you're right with some of what you posted in the other thread. I think Telewest's hand was forced by NTL to some extent. Their "launch" actually looks like just a test. Only 2,100 users, and only for movies -- considerably less impressive than NTL's offering.

However, I think you're wrong about the screens being mock-ups. They look pretty much like the screens I use now, but with a couple of new options, obviously.

Re: Is anyone here on the VOD trial?
 

Don't want to start a Telewest vs NTL argument, but, out of interest, anyone know how many NTL users have VOD to date? I thought the Glasgow roll-out was partly a trial, though, from the sound of it, with more content than Telewest.

Re: Is anyone here on the VOD trial?
 

There are 18,000 users in Glasgow.

And a NTL/TW war would be fun. I could be a double agent!

Re: Is anyone here on the VOD trial?
 

I agree they look like the design of the current Telewest UI. What I meant is that they could be just that - designs, straight out of photoshop. They're very clean images, not from a living room. And they don't show what you see while you're watching a film (unless there are some I've missed).

Re: Is anyone here on the VOD trial?
 

Well they're supplied by Telewest, so you imagine the quality would be as good as they can make it. And if you have a look on the NTL VOD thread, there are some amazingly good screens captured by a user called Currie (do a quick search).

I agree it's a bit strange that Telewest haven't provided any "in use" pictures yet. Maybe they don't do an overlay like NTL do (and if they did, it would be different to NTL's, as Telewest's terrible remote has the VOD controls on the coloured buttons rather than the arrow keys).

Re: Is anyone here on the VOD trial?
 

Using a tuner card in your PC would give you clear screen grabs like the ones used on the VoD thread in the ntl: forums :)

Re: Is anyone here on the VOD trial?
 

Are they this clear on the ntl forum? I thought I'd only seen digital camera photos of peoples TVs of the ntl service. Ok, sorry, I'll check again in a minute.

Indeed I agree with you Bob it would be very clear pictures through a tuner card. If you did that, though, you'd expect that the small TV picture would be different on every screen grab, since they'd be grabbed at different times, and TV pictures are mostly changing all the time. Mostly.

So in these pictures I'm talking about (are there others?) .... http://www.telewestinfo.co.uk/moviesondemand.shtml

Maybe the girl was just enjoying holding that pineapple so much she decided to stand motionless for several seconds while this Bristol triallist did 3 of the captures. Actually the time on all of them is 11:11 so they were all done within a minute, so that makes sense. And the date of Fri 1st December PROVES that Telewest had all this VOD stuff working back in 2000 (that's the last time 1st December fell on a friday). So it's actually strange of them to wait for 4 years for NTL to launch their trial, before launching their own on the very same day.

Yep, I got it wrong. Sorry everyone! My silly incredulity is based on nothing!

;)

Or maybe those are mock-ups and we've yet to see screen grabs of the real thing. Seriously, I'm not suggesting they were intended to be taken as real screen shots, but I'm just dying to see the real thing in action, and these shots aren't doing it for me as I don't think they're taken from the trial.

Re: Is anyone here on the VOD trial?
 

Ah, I'd only seen the two screenshots they've got on Digitalspy. You're quite right.

Also quite suspicious is the fact that 18,000 users in Glasgow have got VOD, and there are many people -- certainly more than nine -- people posting about it on boards like this. But I haven't seen a single post from a TW subscriber in Bristol saying "I've got it", even though you'd imagine that, statistically, it would happen. It's almost like people have been asked not to talk about it.

But then if it was a full roll out, wouldn't TW want every man and his dog discussing it?

What was that, Lassie? Employee Trial?