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Originally Posted by laraseyes
I was also happy to pay the extra just for the recording functions the box gives, record 2 channels and watch another, how good is that yeah???!!!
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Compare it to Sky HD+. Sure, you pay upfront for the box, and you pay £10 extra per month. But if I had Sky Sports, I would get Sky Sports HD for that extra tenner.
Now look at NTL. I've got Sky Sports and Family pack. If I get a TV Drive, that's an extra £10 per month.
£10 extra, for what?
- HD Channels? What HD Channels? BBC One HD and erm.....well there's....erm....mmm....HD VOD movies and.....well I guess there's.....cough....urm......
- PVR functionality? Had that since March via my own PVR - no doubt other customers also got fed up waiting on NTL's PVR solution and went out and brought one. Chase Play? Recording on Hard Drive? Sorry, been there and was doing that in time for the World Cup.
- An 7-8 day EPG? Sorry, that should be standard. Certainly is for Freeview, Sky and BT Vision. What's NTL's excuse? We're told that "Cable is the future", and "if we can get it, we should." So why only 3 days on the EPG? (Don't even get me started on the mythical interactive app. known as BBC News Multiscreens).
- A faster box? Sorry, why should I be paying extra to compensate for bad decisions NTL made in choosing hardware too slow to run their software? Why can't NTL write more efficient software to run faster on their Pace boxes?
Sure, credit where credit is due. TV Drive offers HDTV, HDTV VOD, and the ability to record 2 channels while watching another.
But, do you seriously think that I should pay £10 extra for TV Drive, and then pay
extra on top of
that to get Sky Sports HD?
Because, if that's how NTL is thinking.....then I'm probably off to Sky, and I doubt if I'll be the only one. NTL are in danger of pricing themselves out of the HDTV market, IMO, and the HDTV set I've ordered is going to be hungry for some 720p/1080i content.