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Originally Posted by TheDon
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Either you remain tied to outdated hardware that's insufficient to move forward, or you innovate and bring in new features and new user experiences that are only available on modern hardware.
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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.
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Fair enough. So really software related why it cannot run the EPG interface of new TIVO epg.
However, I am sticking with my guns on -
It does really what a PVR with a cable modem bulit in does (ie.. current/old gen TIVO does this point) i.e. it can connect to internet streams for media, save media, play media and works on linux opensource and if ever opened
up to the VM community (ofcourse it will never) but could be cable of running custom plugin's.