[HDFootyMan]

Originally Posted by McYorkie

That news from Mike doesn't exactly suprise me - its been well flagged up both on here and over at DS about how shaky the Telewest TV Drive's software implementation is and the useability issues that are still ongoing even now with the "revised" code for use on ntl headends.

I think we're beginning to see that the idea of trying to use the buggy TW box and software, rather than going with the SA 8450 DVR that was originally to be built for our side of the network is beginning to be shown to be a bad decision in hindsight - and whats more, the unspecified length of the delay is playing right into the hands of Sky HD.

The longer any delay on further rollout is, the easier it's going to be for Sky to pick off disaffected ntl TV Drive users, together with those who now have no prospect of it coming anytime soon ... again.

(And there's probably no reason to stop orders in Glasgow - they're the guniea pigs for us on the ntl side.)

While I wasn't too pleased about them using the MPEG 2 Telewest box, I can see why they made that decision. If they were still going to use the SA 8450, then we would probably have had an even longer delay to see HDTV on the NTL Network.

As for the delay - you get different info about TV Drive depending on who you talk to at CS. Someone on this forum rang them up 3 times and was given 3 different HD channel lineups for TV Drive .

CS don't seem to be singing from the same hymn sheet. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if people can ring up tomorrow (outside Glasgow and Teeside) and book an installation date for TV Drive.