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Stuart · 02-03-2004, 12:29

Although I want a box with this facility, and will pay extra for it, I bought this up on .com and somebody told me is was looked at and decided it wasn't viable at the time. Proppin (I think) also gave a whole list of technical reasons why it couldn't be done (basically coming down to it's not practical in the current size boxes). It would also cost too much to replace the current boxes. When I suggested the user pay for the box, I was told NTL's billing system is not equiped to do this.

How many users does sky + have? Last I heard it was something like 100000 out of 6 million sky users. If it has enough users, maybe we can persuade NTL it is viable for them to look at introducing a similar service?

02-03-2004, 12:29	#15
Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: Dual recordings Although I want a box with this facility, and will pay extra for it, I bought this up on .com and somebody told me is was looked at and decided it wasn't viable at the time. Proppin (I think) also gave a whole list of technical reasons why it couldn't be done (basically coming down to it's not practical in the current size boxes). It would also cost too much to replace the current boxes. When I suggested the user pay for the box, I was told NTL's billing system is not equiped to do this. How many users does sky + have? Last I heard it was something like 100000 out of 6 million sky users. If it has enough users, maybe we can persuade NTL it is viable for them to look at introducing a similar service?