TiVo - 50,000 have registered Interest...
 

Source - http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-...17-703822.html

Seems to be more than twice what has been talked about so far on this forum.

:)

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:cool:

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This will take a eternity to phone up all these customers if all of them take it up, some customers could be waiting a long time to have installation dates agreed.

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Some will probably not take up TiVo once they hear the price.

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I am happy with the price but unhappy with the communication and poor roll out.

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As has been told to many people, the rollout is still very early and as has been seen more communications are starting to be sent to customers. Once it's fully rolled out you will see stuff everywhere about it. Things will ramp up over the coming months.

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VM are currently running a prize draw for a years worth of free subscription if you register ,i got my letter yesterday

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lol bet you still have to sign an 18 month contract lol

Mind you a friend of mine was called offered the superhub and 50meg vip for less than they were paying and managed to wangle a 12 month contract and insisted on it in writing before install

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Only if you want to keep the box after the free year.

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will they expect you to sign a new 18 month contract then or just tie you to 6?

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It is a 12 month term.

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I've got no interest in taking TiVo, the only reason I'm registered is because of the raffle ticket thingy. I'll take anything for free!

As Masque suggests, I'm sure many of the 50,000 will loose interest as soon as they hear the up front fee. It's a product that people will want, but it's a hard sell during these tough financial times. TV is a luxury item, and is often the first thing to go when the purse strings are drawn. Give it 3 or 4 years and TiVo will be a hit for Virgin.

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Virgin Media's and Sky's financial figures show that isn't true. If the purse strings are tight, then people stay in and upgrade their home entertainment.

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I’m sure I’ve read this as a market trend before but it is a consequence of tougher financial times that people stop going out and sit in watching TV instead and want more home entertainment as a result, so Sky and VM actually see these as good times. Pay TV will certainly lose subscribers as well who drop back to Freeview, etc but the overall effect is improving subscriber numbers and increased revenue per subscriber for which I think VM announced yesterday a record figure for revenues per subscriber.

If we have now over 50,000 customers interested in Tivo, then even with people dropping out when the decision comes, it is going to take a longer time to fulfill all installs. Has Tivo become more successful than VM anticipated? A nice problem to have as long as VM get their act together to fulfill it and they haven't launched it to new customers/open market yet.

Has anybody heard yet when VM will have Tivo installed in their shops so we can go and see it, if you haven't been lucky enough yet to receive the call. Patiently waiting to walk into the VM Nottingham store and see Tivo!

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Many of the VM stores have TiVo installed now.

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Thanks, if on demo then I shall be walking into the Nottingham store this weeked.

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I got a email from Virgin today with a unique code to register for Tivo and be selected for a years free, have these emails gone on to the 50, 000 ??

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They will have gone to everyone who registered an interest and entered their contact email address, fill it in you never know.

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I think one got installed in the Nottingham shop last week....

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Thanks, didn't manage to make it into Nottingham this weekend in the end, excellent then, I shall try and make it next weekend.

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i got one of those ticket thingys, and registered. thought no more about it got a phone call today fron virgin and i was one of the 1000!!!! tivo for a year for free whaoooo!!! installing it on thursday. Im very blessed ta very much virgin:angel:

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I'm rather puzzled by Branson's comment:

I think that we have finally got a weapon that can give Sky a run for their money.

At the moment my Freeview box (on TV no 2) is quite capable of recording anything I want, including series whilst the old DVD recorder that I use with the TV with the Virgin Media box will record anything from VM. Surely Tivo is simply a programme recorder with a few added bells and whistles? It doesn't supply extra programmes, or does it? So why does Branson rate it as a killer app? Am I missing something about Tivo?

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Probably because for the same reason that you can't compare Freeview to Sky either.

Branson wasn't comparing VM's new TiVo service to Freeview, he was comparing it to VM's thorn in their side, Sky.

You can record three programs simultaneously whilst watching a recorded program on one TiVo box, that alone is something that neither Freeview or Sky can do, but that is not all the box can do.

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I take your point about Tivo being versatile but the point I was making is that I consider that Branson is overegging the pudding. With only 24 hours in the day are there many people who want to regularly record 3 programs at once? Once the novelty wears off will anyone but a minority actually be regularly using these facilities? Also, as has been said elsewhere in the thread, you have to pay for Tivo.

I may well be wrong but I'm afraid that I don't share Branson's enthusiasm. We shall no doubt see.

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21:00hrs - 23:00hrs, which is the main programme time, it really comes in handy. TiVo is all about time-shifting your tv viewing as most TiVo users don't watch live tv, they record it for when they are ready to watch.

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Exactly. I am watching the cricket at the moment but have to go out soon so will set the recording going but also have the budget to be recorded. so thats two tuners used up. We do find that most that we watch has been pre-recorded.

When we go on holiday in June I hope we have Tivo then as the extra recording space will be very useful.