Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) Vol 2
 

I agree with sky it is also £200 but if you add multi room it's £60 but for existing customers each box is £99, so for £99 with all the 4K on demand from sky living, cinema, sports and F1, why would we pay £199 for a box with no 4K material, not forgetting the programmes we can download to tablets will be limited, I'll stick with slow TiVo until the V6 is worth it

The 1tb would need to built into existing VIP as we pay extra current TiVo in bundle.

But if they was to say £199 per box I'd go sorry, wait on next price rise , they have no shortage and leave to sky

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Why don't virgin get off there bits and tell us something

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Sky have no increase to package, no extra fee just £99 per box

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But virgin are thinking in august of £200 and also monthly fee reayv

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

People get really angered on here don't they , who knows what's the prices will be however they'll have to be competitive with Sky so calm down.:D

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

Will you ever stop complaining.... we do know the answer to that one ;)

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

That's from August.

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

Looking at Ddonalds posting history, I'm starting to wonder if he is a Sky employee.

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

Yes some cannot seem to contain themselves but alas that is this forum for you sometimes.:)

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;);)

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

The amount or time he spends ranting on here I highly doubt that.

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

Hey god no I don't work for sky, I'm a virgin customer of 15 years

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

In business, customer retention is just as important as customer attraction and is much cheaper to achieve.

By this I mean that there are costs associated with attracting new customers that aren't present with keeping existing customers happy eg advertising, supplying equipment, staff costs/resources etc.

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

Donald, are you howling at the moon again..................:D

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

When this comes out, if I go through retentions... anybody think I have any kind of a chance on getting a deal to upgrade all 3 of my Tivo boxes?

Im certainly not wanting to pay £200 a box to upgrade 3 boxes... that's £600... beyond a joke.

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

This makes an interesting read:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/03/wh...-making-sense/

It says that ten years ago, TiVo was hardware play and now it's regarded as software play.

When TiVo made the hardware and put their software onto them, I bet they were excellent machines, but now they seem to licence their software to any old box.

I think that the problems with the VM TiVo, therefore, do not lie with the TiVo software itself, but the crappy box that VM have used to run it on.

Had TiVo made the boxes, things would be a whole lot different.

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

Sadly the price is a mystery but I don't think they will give out three at start but these will be new at start with likely bugs, I'd keep one old TiVo the now

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

Well Sky Q still has many bugs including flicker and disappearing red buttons many months on

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

I don't think Tivo ever manufactured the boxes themselves, they never were a hardware company. This was outsourced to companies like Philips and Thomson. It was just that Tivo sold subscriptions directly to consumers. Fine when cable companies had poor EPGs but this was an unviable business model when they caught up with Tivo's technology.
I don't think there's anything wrong with VM's manufacturers Samsung and Cisco. Just that like an old PC or phone, they are not powerful enough. I've seen YouView boxes run similarly slow and even hang on Demand 5.

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I think they rushed it after BT launched its 4K box but I think it was the right decision for Sky.