Cable Forum - Tivo returning to UK?

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Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

Aside from the size of the hdd - what makes a tivo better than a sky+ box.

The whole Interface is better, it has a 14 day EPG, you can search for programs by director, actor or cast member, you dont have to tell the tivo what programs you want it to record (ofcourse you still can though!), you can simply use the "thumbs up" and a "thumbs down" arrows on the tivo remote to tell it what programs you like and what you dont, and it will adapt to your viewing habbits and record what program genres you like (its kinda spooky - must be the work of the devil himself:D), it can automatically switch itself on and change channels on a sky dodgybox, ntl set top box, or DTT/freeview receiver (or even all of them if you want it to) and aswell as that it has a standerd terestrial tuner to record good old analogue:), they also made it in partnership with sky while they were making sky+.

Unfortunatly sky realised they could make there own cheap as dirt PVR without the help of tivo, and give it a name like "sky+" to sell it to all the braindead idiots like me out there, so thompson stoped producing UK tivos, and thats where it stopped. sky+ is nothing in comparison to what tivo was, the only advantage is the dual tuners in sky+, but there not exactly great, they are poorly implemented in the software interface and as such you constantly know that you can only record two channels and the box's often fail and miss recordings.

Well history lesson over, Tivo pull out of UK and leave us with some old thompson series 1 PVRs that are rock solid and still work today!

Today I find that they have plans to come back in the UK with a dual tuner freeview PVR with dvd recorder built in, and a test "shop" on the tivo UK website that currently has a US tivo on there, all prices in $USD and no implementation of credit card processing. Methinks something is going on, and if tivo ever return to the UK, I will be the first to get my hands on one!
-Chris