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Erm, thats all software and network, not some special £200 hardware wizzardry. Maybe we shouldn't lose sight of that

At £200 I don't see how it offers value for money

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So go to SKY and pay for them to come out when your box breaks, because you own it. Or you drop your remote, or.... Etc.

Call faults and tell them about your box. I had mine replaced this morning due to it being irregularly unresponsive. No questions asked.

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Someone said there was mention of the TIVO iPad app coming for virgin I can't find any reference to that.

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I will - I was with Sky before and it broke outside of the 12 month warranty.

They came and fixed it soon enough when I said I was cancelling.

Its all very well saying that's not guaranteed, but who in their right mind is going to pay £60p/m for services you can't use because the supplied equipment fails. It's hardly rocket science that they should repair/replace, because they lose the £60p/m revenue otherwise.

I'm sick of contacting Virgin only for them to say "if it is OK when the engineer comes out you will be charged for the call-out", and "they will only replace it with what the engineer has with him". What's the point in me wasting a day for them to come out and replace with the same equipment, or worse still charge me for the privilege?

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Just noticed it doesn't have an internal power supply, must have a brick outside the box. Easy way to make the box smaller! :P

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What? Your paying for the box that runs that software, what else are you expecting from the hardware?

---------- Post added at 14:44 ---------- Previous post was at 14:43 ----------

http://www.techradar.com/news/comput...service-912206

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Not to have to pay £200 to have it's functionality "activated"

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Now that's some powerful advertising.
I wanted to see more, and it gave me more!

Hoping to get this asap :)

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The price has nothing to do with why someone would want this over a Freeview HD box, which is your original question. If you don't like the price that's fine but it doesn't change the fact that nothing else comes close to the functionality. And that is why someone would pay the money for it.

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Like wanting to access the Internet without a router or even PC hardware!

The price is fine with me for the features you gain access to, this is a game changer for VM.

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I think it helps if you think of the £200 as being for the 'service'. There's no way VM could provide the 'service' (CPE, backend, infrastructure) for £3 a month. So they offer a low monthly fee and have an upfront charge. Let's look at some numbers. A VM subscriber having TiVO for (hopefully!) two years:

£3 x 24 = £72. Plus the £190 upfront is £262.

Now charge the same upfront as they do for V+. This leaves

£212 / 24 = £8.83, so call it £9 a month.

If VM had mandated a 2 year contract (which wouldn't be a massive surprise, they're already after 18 month contracts) with an extra tenner per month and only £50 upfront I don't think anyone would be complaining. I'm happy to pay the £189.

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Do not forget that this box will have its own dedicated 10Mb broadband connection as well.

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Are the prices announced today only for new customers? Any news on prices for existing customers?

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Don't remember saying anything about a Freeview HD box?

The core functionality is all available elsewhere. On the same platform and the competing platforms (Sky now, Freeview soon in the Youview guise) PVR, On-Demand, 2/3 tuners, HD, 3D.

It's the bells and whistles that fall into the nothing comes close category. And in my opinion, the bells and whistles just aren't worth the price.

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I would have thought that most people on this site already have internet?