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Originally Posted by ShadowTD
Yep, £299 plus £10/month. VM's TiVO pricing is well in line with this, well under in fact. Forget the old 'you own the box' argument - without a Sky sub, a Sky+ box is about as much use as a £40 Maplin FTA receiver - less so in some people's eyes. So I don't understand why you think this pricing is any worse than the competition, and in fact not quite reasonable?
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Because that launch was how many years ago? 8 years ago (Sky+ this is)?
Today's Sky+ price is £0, and £0 a month (for TV subscribers). My point was that this is the price today's TiVo commands, as all it has over the TiVo 10 years ago is internet-connected apps and a back-in-time EPG (VOD and multiple tuners have come from the platform advancing, not TiVo). Not a big enough jump to reset the pricing to 2000 levels.
VM could be missing a chance to take Sky subscribers here, and big time. I wouldn't move from Sky for this price if I were a Sky customer, that's for sure. It doesn't give enough benefit for the price asked.
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Originally Posted by ShadowTD
Yeah, the TiVO launch was a *long* time ago. I've wished many times over the years that I'd bought one... Not going to hang around now!  |
When the price is more reasonable, I'll be with you. TiVo really is very good, and its a shame I got rid of mine all those years ago when I did. The price is the only issue for me.