Re: The real reason Tivo is £149.............
 

Where has anyone said that the £149/£199 that Virgin are asking for is anything near the total cost of the TiVo service and associated hardware?

Re: The real reason Tivo is £149.............
 

When you say tivo service and associated hardware, what do you mean?

Do you mean tv channels?
Do you mean catch up tv?
Do you mean other VOD?
Perhaps you think a few apps is a service??

As for hardware:

Do you mean headend equipment?
Street cabinets?
stbs? We already disagree on that one!
Cables?

What is the "service" you refer to? And how is that seperate to the cable tv service I already pay for?

Re: The real reason Tivo is £149.............
 

If you don't know what TiVo is, then how can you say it's not worth the cost Virgin are asking for it?

No-one if forcing you to have the TiVo box, or pay any of the fees. You can quite happily continue with the STB you have which by the sounds of it more than meets your needs

Re: The real reason Tivo is £149.............
 

Re: The real reason Tivo is £149.............
 

someone has to pay cisco for the boxes
and someone has to pay tivo for their software
and then virgin have to make a profit out of it all

Re: The real reason Tivo is £149.............
 

I know exactly what a tivo is, I had one for several years! It was bloody excellent, far better than any crappy cable box (including v+) ever made in the last 20 years.It most definitely does not meet my needs! It's complete rubbish, 1 day epg is disgusting.

Re: The real reason Tivo is £149.............
 

"Oh well you're here now..... but..... you're a little bit early!"

Oh don't we know it :p:

Re: The real reason Tivo is £149.............
 

Watch the video, it will educate you on TiVo https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/04/65.gif

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and you paid TiVo £10 a month, just for the Tivo services, it gave you no more channels....... So, you just want free stuff? :D

Re: The real reason Tivo is £149.............
 

I currently pay £72 a month to vm, I don't class that as "free".

Re: The real reason Tivo is £149.............
 

and you get everything you are entitled to in that price.

I repeat... you paid TiVo £10 a month, just for the Tivo services, it gave you no more channels....... So, you just want free stuff?


Look... TiVo will eventually replace the other STB's, but for now it's priced as a premium product.

It's an extra service, like premium channels... pay it and get it or get nothing. End of.

Re: The real reason Tivo is £149.............
 

Happy to rent, not happy to purchase it for VM. End of.

Re: The real reason Tivo is £149.............
 

I see you are avoiding the point that you paid TiVo £10 a month, just for TiVo in the past.

you got no more channels.

Re: The real reason Tivo is £149.............
 

By that do you mean you'd prefer the £149 being added to your bill in the way of monthly payments, say £10 a month for the duration of an 18 month contract?

Re: The real reason Tivo is £149.............
 

Bit difficult to avoid the "point", when you only just made it! And what exactly are you saying anyway??

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If vm said it was £10 on top of my current monthly fees, then I would not be happy with that. If it were £5, I would probably accept it.

Re: The real reason Tivo is £149.............
 

Do I really have to start going back in the thread and start quoting you? read from #76 onwards