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Originally Posted by muppetman11
How many firms run different epg software? Not many Sky have the same all be it ones non HD and one is HD.
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So lets have the TV platform stagnate and not move forward because the old boxes are incapable of running modern new epgs.
Sky's EPG is a pile of crap. It's only now on the HD boxes got things that the VM EPG had 10 years ago (such as the preview picture on the tv guide).
To hold up the fact that Sky's EPG can run on all their boxes is frankly irrelevant when it's an EPG from the stoneages.
If you want VM to be an innovative leader in TV you HAVE to accept that there will be points where they have to sit there and go "ok, we can no longer support giving these boxes the latest and greatest" and cut off support for them. It's simple common sense.
Either you remain tied to outdated hardware that's insufficient to move forward, or you innovate and bring in new features and new user experiences that are only available on modern hardware.
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Originally Posted by Wad_2002
Can any please xpalin why they fell that the current range of STB's by virgin (mainly Samsung V+) won't support TIVO?
I can't see why It can't. Its works with NET players such as ITV and BBCi, its has a direct connection to the network adminin itself an IP address for the box. Its meaty hardware as it runs the awful VM block EPG and I doubt it has a 333mhz processor :P.
It basically does more or less certain elements and princpiles of what TIVO does this now.
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It has no support for flashlite which is an instrumental part of Tivo's latest generation EPG.
It's really not meaty hardware at all.