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Originally Posted by Horizon
I have to say I cannot foresee VM going back to a situation where they have different software on different boxes. They've spent all the time merging everything together, only to split it again. Seems absurd. If what you say is correct about the flash lite, I would suspect that a cut down version of the tivo software will be put on all the existing boxes. But Berkett was clearly inferring otherwise, wasn't he?
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You can't just cut down the new UI to remove the flash lite requirement, it's a vital part of it, the ui runs on it. It's not like certain features use flash, the entire interface is flash.
No matter what you're going to have two different software versions with entirely different underlying OS's running on two different boxes, one flash based, one not, so what difference does it make if both are Tivo provided or one is and one isn't? Other than the added cost of having Tivo develop two seperate versions of their software.
You have to remember the long term plan is V HD will be the standard box, and the Tivo V+ the PVR, spending money developing a new ui for what are going to become end of lifetime boxes isn't good business sense.