VM:TiVo hits 1,000,000
 

http://mediacentre.virginmedia.com/S...uple-23e3.aspx

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I love Martin Kemp :romance:

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What training did he get then? lol

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More than the rest. :)

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They get training?

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That's 1m Tivos in ... how long since official launch? A year? 18 months maybe? Not bad, really :)

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What happens if that gold tivo fails, Do they get a replacement gold one :)

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shouldn't they get a gold tivo remote


Does anyone still use there silver tivo remote (Special VM Customers)

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I bet that gold box looks ugly with the rest of their AV kit :D

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If it was me, I'd make it fail so that I got a black one as a replacement! Reminds me of the gold coloured AV amps that Yamaha did a few years ago, and makes me shudder.

Well done to VM though. Prooves that the 'Tivo Whingers' who used to frequent the VM Tivo forums, were wrong.

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I assume they provided a pair of sun glasses to go with it. Or maybe VM are a step ahead fasion wise and gold is the new black?

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Agreed 1 million customers is a great achievement.

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Hope it a terabyte

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i hope so it would have been wrong and cheep if it was 500GB version and they wanted the 1TB

Lol wouldn't worry.. When they received the order, whether it was a 500 or 1Tb probably didn't matter because they probably just picked it off the warehouse shelf the night before and took a can of gold metallic spray paint to it.

Also they say he "installed it"

But truth is he probably just stood there while an engineer installed it and all he did is screw the coax cable into the back and plugged it into power socket.. Somehow can't imagine Martin kemp yielding a hammer drill, while kneeling on the floor in a suit drilling trough a brick wall then stripping coax cable ends and fitting connectors.. Unless it was an upgrade of course lol
In which case.. Wonder how he would of got on if vm were still running their move v+ box for free offer... No idea if that's still running or not, and homeowner said they wanted box moved upstairs.. He woulda been up a ladder then clipping cable to the walls in a suit! Now that's a photo for the press.. Lol Brick dust covering his expensive suit... Then he really could if said he installed it personally.

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That will shut up the doomsayers for a fair while one suspects.:)

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weather they warned that he was coming, whether he got a skelf in his finger
is he a man or woose?

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Praise from the master is praise indeed.:)

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Well wether its made up of Swap-outs, Up sells or brandnew customers that's a great mile stone for VM to have hit.

I believe the first beta testers had TiVo in October 2009 frist retail customers February/March 2010 so that's not bad for 29 months.

I believe its not as good as Sky's 2.5 million HD boxes in homes within 12 months of launch but still very very good.

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Happy to be corrected, but I think it was 2011? I got one of the first when they were first available generally only to current VM customers in April .

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Yes it was 2011 PB.:)

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It was 2010, The all singing all dancing launch was pushed and pushed and evetually happened April 2011. But people had them in 2010.

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yep had mine 1yr 2 months reset it 3 times working perfect, no problems so happy with it:D

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Did you mean Sky+ as that's the comparison. VM have had other HD boxes available before Tivo.

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Yes, but not 2009. The deal wasn't even signed until the end of 2009.

http://mediacentre.virginmedia.com/S...tform-167.aspx

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The question is how many non TiVo boxes are their left out there in vm land?

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Whatever "number of TV customers minus 1m" is :D

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Wrong, many customers have TIVO as well as other boxes..

Therefore 3 Million plus...........:D

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Some trialists, mainly VM employes, had them in December 2010. But the point is, your post comparing Sky's box launch was inaccurate by a whole year.

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Indeed. I was just thinking, last night in bed, that there was something wrong with that formula :)

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Carl I am shocked that I did not spring to mind :rolleyes: As I have both m/c`s :cool:

As stated before I am glad its working for them. Its a great m/c despite some of the over the top hype. Go in with eyes open and you should be happy. Long since learn`t to ignore any adverts ( see Panorama last episode !)

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:confused:

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I am forever compering the two & you are picking on me - O forget it life`s too short :erm:

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But I wasn't comparing anything in my post that you replied to; hence the confusion.

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To clear this up I hope.

You thought that the total TiVo users was minus the total users of Virgin. Yes

As I moan alot about what my V+ does that my TiVo does not Etc. I thought you would have clicked that I for one have both. Hence the comment. Sorry I was not clearer :)

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No problem. Sometimes I can get the complicated stuff but not the easy stuff. And sometimes I get neither :D

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It's easy to get a celeb to the right house when other customers are badly let down. One of my clients waited in all day yesterday finally to be told it was too late to install her TiVo's - and no, they couldn't do it today so now she has to wait until Monday.
She is also having the superhub and has been a long time faithful customer of this shower - I wonder how long she will put up with this?:td::td::td:

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Of course it is as that's a one-off special event :rolleyes:
And what about all those customers that aren't let down? You know, the ones where the install goes perfectly well but we don't hear about it?

No reason to think that's not the norm; which is why we hear so much when installs don't go according to plan.

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No problem with any install done with in the last 5 years, earlier yes.( one & one only )

Every job has been on time , the fitter helpful, clean and tidy.

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Don't be so silly. You don't come on a forum to say nothing unusual happened today! My client was inconvenienced and let down and I was also on standby so we both had our time wasted. I'm not going to argue with you about this. I'm saying it isn't good enough and running along side the 1000000th installation gave it a certain extra element of frustration.

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They did http://www.pocket-lint.com/news-gall...ds-on/17#image

I've never seen a mention of the silver remote before, does it exist?

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How long have they had "1TB" stickers on the boxes? I have to admit that whilst the gold box looks a bit cheap, the gold remote looks very good indeed.

I've never heard of special customers being given silver remotes? Some people got remotes with their names printed on the side but that was the only difference, apart from that just the standard VM TiVo remote.

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If you look at the pictures, I think they only got a black remote but:

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Not that I can remember, but there is this ;)

A few weeks.

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Yes. That was precisely my point. VM are doing 100s of installs a day. How many "bad" ones are posted about every day? It's not even one a week!

I don't disagree that a bad install and be annoying/frustrating, etc. That wasn't the point though :)

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O.M.G, that is reem. How do I get one? :D

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How about a golden superhub..... Oh wait...

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What happened to proper words like cool, smart or neat? :mad:

Seeming as all they did was spray paint it with gold metallic paint.. I want one! Lol

Wonder if vm will mind me spraying mine gold like that also.. Good idea jb I might do the matching superhub lol

If engineer swaps it, and has a shocked face then " engineer installed a refurbished box" 1 millionth customer musta disliked TiVo and returned it within their 30 day grace period.

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I thought this rather apt.....

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I think someone didn't get the joke. That was the first time I've used the word.

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Well it obviously wasn't a very good one, then :p:

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Lost on me - but I put that down to age :p:

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Lost on me too, but urbandictionary saved the day :)

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"OMG" and "reem" are 2 words used a lot in TOWIE, the show that inspired the design of that remote and TiVo box, or so I've been told. I don't watch it myself (promise). :erm:

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Know I now its an age thing - Have no idea what you are on about :D

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You are still young in mind kind sir.:)

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I thank you sir,but young in mind is something I have never been ! School reports along the lines of Old head on young Shoulders etc.

Still back on track. Can not be bothered myself ( to try and find out -by research that is) Is this what was projected ? I see Sky was below city expections.

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Did Martin have his body armour, I didn't know fitting a Tive was that dangerous:mad:

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:confused:

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I think they might be confusing Martin Kemp with Ross Kemp.

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referring to his show on Sky ?

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Instead of it being gold they should of gave them a black 2TB TiVo.