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Originally Posted by Stuart C
OK... Assume NTL has 4 million STBs (I don't know if they do, but I suspect that is a fair estimate). Now multiply that $99 by 4 million. Taking into account bulk discount, reduce it to $50. Thats $200,000,000
That's without the cost of all the back-end equipment Liberate provide, which would probably need to be replaced, and would probably add another few million to the cost.
Now, even taking into account both the exchange rate, and a possible further reduction in cost, I hope you can see it's still going to cost NTL between £50 and £100 million to change all the boxes.
In short, I don't think they'll be changing from Liberate anytime soon.
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Now, that's the kind of make sense answer I was looking for.
My Samsung STB is better that the Pace I had, its much more responsive.
Can anyone on the Telewest side tell us what the TV Drive is like at all, compared with a standard set top box?
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Originally Posted by DaveC
I have heard it said that the Samsung is quicker at switching channels and also on interactive. Depends what the engineer has available at the time, I got a Samsung about a couple of weeks ago and its no worse than the Pace.
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It is better on interactive, and the guide loads in about a second. The warm up time is a little longer, but still, its a better box, and better looking than the Pace too.