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Originally Posted by ShadowTD
@Pauldavies: I'm sorry, but anyone comparing Sky's On Demand functionality to VM's is smoking some real good shizzle. It's only decent when used via an Xbox when looking at movies, and there's huge chunks of content missing, more it seems than VM. Anytime+ on the actual Sky box needs you to sit and wait before you start watching it, isn't available to non Sky BB customers and still isn't available to even half of the people who are!
Youview is a good six months away from launch. This is literally weeks away for some lucky people.
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I didn't compare it directly, I said its available elsewhere. And it is. No matter how incomplete it might be. £200 for TiVo doesn't improve VM's on demand offering
You have to wait a good 5-10 seconds before you can watch OD on V+ (plus x amount of extra time for the interface to catch up with what you want it to do) - people don't complain about that. But they see fit to slate Sky's progressive download system because it has the word "download" in it.
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Originally Posted by ShadowTD
This is VM's *true* next generation platform. The only thing that's been anywhere near this revolutionary on UK cable was NTL's prototype h264 box, which never saw the light of day. Everything else has been a cheap cop-out.
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Agree with that, but it's come a little too late for me to get excited about paying a huge wedge for it. If the original TVDrive / whateveritwascalledonntl was a TiVo, I'd probably have had no issue stumping up the £200. I was a TiVo user back then, and I loved it.
All these years later and it doesn't excite me enough to drop so much money on it - Virgin are asking for more or similar than I paid for my Series 1 TiVo nearly 10 years later.