Re: TiVo
 

When being sold by sales/contact with customers once launched.

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Anytime between now and August. No firm date announced just yet.

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Phase 1 was BBCi Player, full Red Button is Phase 2.

BBCi Player launched 2 weeks ago.

Re: TiVo
 

It's all down to personal requirements. For me, the red button stuff is of no interest. Tivo has many more features to outweight the lack of the red button facility - IMO.

Others will need the red button facility and therefore Tivo won't be for them just yet. All down to what you want really. I am super happy with Tivo. Last night we were watching Ross Kemp's Extreme World which we had recorded earlier in the week from Sky 1 HD. 10 o clock came and all three recording lights came on to record a further three HD channels whilst us watching our HD recording. For me, that is more important, to have that facility to effectively record one extra channel than the V+ could.

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Yep I never use the red button mainly because it's so slow. Truth be known there could be no red button on my current box and I would be none the wiser.

If the red button services were quicker (maybe it will be on TiVo) then I might end up using it.

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It's up to the user whether it is a valuable service but 12 million people use the BBC Red Button every week so it is clearly very popular. I agree VM's current implementation of it is quite clunky but I found it very useful all the same, hopefully Tivo's version will be lightning fast. Sky's version is clunky too, I find the Freeview version the best but the features are of course limited.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcintern...ust_servi.html

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Good old DF, singing the company song as usual!

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Would I not be right in thinking that the majority of people have alternate access to red button via their digital television?

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Not everyone has an aerial connected to their TV ;)

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You would be right but the Freeview service is very, very limited regarding video streams. Just the one is available these days.

All the text services are available on Freeview as far as I know though.

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I'm not too bothered about Red Button. It's only really any use if your watching TV live and to be honest the wife and kids very rarely let me watch anything live.

I am looking forward to F1 in HD this year and not having to worry about HD space or random reboots.

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Hi :waving: Fixerman

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It's very much a personal choice , some may not be bothered about red button services , personally I an especially Premiership football which is one of the reasons I switched to Sky. I suppose VM could argue if you want red button service , stick with V+ until full red button services launch on TIVO.

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May be an issue when Wimbledon comes round, if not fixed by then.

As a workaround, why do VM not carry the red button video streams as 'visible' channels in the EPG - as virtually all Freeview boxes do, and I recall NTL did some years ago before the existing red button was fully accessible from all boxes?

Re: TiVo
 

Why wait to release with the red button?

If it's delayed, all of us have to wait for tivo. If it's released now, those of us not bothered about red button can get tivo now and those who want red button can stick with V+ until tivo gets red buttoned.

Red button users are unaffected timescale wise and non red button users get tivo funcionality earlier.

Maybe you want to deny us non red button users the pleasure of tivo early?

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Just that you won't be able to watch the practise on the red button service with TIVO :)

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It is a major lacking in the service if there is no red button, you should all be united in pushing Virgin to impliment it.......otherwise you have yourselves to blame when they leave it 6 months because people are saying it does not matter...when it does!

It may not matter that it is not there at the moment for the launch, but if it is still not there in a months time, that is pretty poor in my opinion.