Quote:
Originally Posted by Coax
Seems to me that Virgin are operating the Apple business model, pay for fixing problems. To me I feel we are paying extra for Virgin to provide a reliable up to date service and fixing their existing problem with current equipment/solution. When you lease a car it normally gets upgraded after period time for free, you don’t pay anymore other than the usual increases through inflation etc. So why should it be different for renting a TV service, it should be update and enhanced as matter of course? Most of the features of the Tivo are available from Net TV’s, blue ray players, PS3, media boxes, xbox and Iphone etc for free. So what are we paying for?
|
Your not comparing like for like though with cars and tv though. If you are tech savvy then you can do all of the above you mention across a variety of different platforms. The real benefit here though is to those people who quite clearly aren't tech savvy. It's a unified platform of content.
Being a long time lurker and infrequent poster, I don't get the attitude of some that whenever virgin offer something new it should always be free
I have used both Sky HD and V+ HD and I can say 100% that the user experience of using V+ HD is much much better than Skys clunky non responsive HD menu system.
What virgin are offering is content and a user experience with the new TiVO service. If they are paying to develop this platform then why should it be free. You do realise that they have had to pay to develop this platform right
