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Old 05-12-2010, 20:06   #292
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Re: TiVo

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Originally Posted by pauldavies83 View Post
There is no way they would sell such a box for £500 - it would have to compete in its marketplace.

You can get dual-tuner PVR's for less than £200 - how would they get away with charging ~£300 more for similar hardware?
As you've owned a TiVo before do you not think it does so much more than existing Freeview PVRs? Even the UI is better than anything on any current box I've used. I still use my Series 1 TiVo with a Freeview box and although it's only single tuner, the software can compensate for it (providing there's a repeat).

It also depends on the manufacturer... yes there are cheap Freeview dual-tuner PVRs for under £200, but the FreeviewHD box from Panasonic is £500... which again the VM TiVo will blow away both feature, UI and storage wise (it only has a 250GB HDD).


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