I think i must be the only one thinking £200 to rent a box is insanity! If i switch to sky in 1yr i'd have paid £200 just to use the tivo box. I think virgin should have made it so that people could choose to purchase the box when ordering for £275 and have a slot in the box to allow a DVB-T or DVB-T2 tuner to be installed so that people could use the box as a freeview hd box with recording ability.
Its safe to say I will be the customer never upgrading to Tivo until its completely free including installation or maybe, it wouldn't even be worth £20 i don't think as i wouldn't be using the additional functions over what my V+ hd box has. The harddrive space is the only plus for me. I can't see virgin enabling the e-sata port as they haven't enabled the USB port on the V+ due to piracy issues with providers.
Just out of curiousity does this support 1080p youtube and does it have Lovefilm built-in too?
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Originally Posted by muppetman11
Cindy Rose talks about everyone being on Tivo within two years which makes me think there will be some enticing prices for existing customers.
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where does she say 2 years?
Btw it may be financially beneficial for virgin to do this as the cost of creating their own software on the V+ box must be quite a bit whereas tivo is already made and will be improved regularly i'm sure as many companies world-wide use their boxes. If they could get all the v+ boxes gone and everyone on tivo then they'd have alot less programmers needed.
Gotta say the box is pretty ugly imo, they always want their boxes to have sort of vagina lips on the front, they should have hired a good designer :P