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Originally Posted by pauldavies83
The £200 upfront charge is buying the equipment in for Virgin for them to then rent to you, plain and simple. When you rent a TV, or lease a car, your not paying the company up front for it for them to buy it and then paying the rental on it as well. They buy their asset, and then you pay the rental to them.
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To buy the box in a high street store, if you could, would probably cost around £500+. Virgin don't just need to recoup the box manufacturing costs but also the cost of the TiVo license and development. Virgin wont be makng any money for a long time.
A car rental company just buys in a fleet of cars and rents them, they haven't had the car custom built for them and bought a license to use a certain interior and had it custom designed and developed.
VM do not require you to have TiVo, it's currently a premium service so if you don't want to pay for it do without.
A.
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Originally Posted by WooLLsterQ
Called Staff packs today and was informed the next roll out after the "Tivo 500" we be a second batch of 500 units only again to staff and it will be early to mid January!!
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I would of thought some of the people who have been long time beta field testers for the current boxes may have got a look in for an early install also, but I guess not. It's not just staff that sell products, customers/testers do also. Hell if the box was sat under my TV there would at least 10 people switching from Sky tomorrow! People are still impressed by my Series 1 TiVo...
Andy.