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Originally Posted by pjo123
I recently went back to Sky from Virgin, while I own a Sky HD box, I went the VUDuo HD box route. This box is a Linux TV receiver, fully customisable and takes the Sky card (although you need an official Sky box to initially pair the card to).
One thing this box has shown me is how Sky and Virgin should have done things. Simple options to specify the time of day to get the EPG updates, options to say how many days I want to get/stored.
Options to say how long I want to add by default to the beginning or end, up to me, could add 2 hrs if I wanted.
One press to see the timers, can in seconds edit end times for any particular program I want.
Playing back a recorded program, press one button and it skips over the padding to when the program should have started which 99 times out of 100, is exactly at the start of the program.
Setup options to allow me to specify the speed of ff/rw up to 256x the speed.
Youtube streaming, podcasts, stream media from my PC
etc etc etc
If it takes a few years to get these 1TB boxes to us, they'll be old technology by the time we get them.
Both Virgin and Sky need a kick to get themselves into gear. For example there's no real reason either couldn't make the Harddrives customer upgradable (like the PS3 has done). People were unofficially sticking 1TB drives in their Sky HD boxes in early 2009. Sky customers own the boxes (or do after 12 months) hence if they want to risk adding a drive at their expense (which in reality means a massive saving), they can. With Virgin, we don't have this luxury. If I'm spending £200 on a VM box, I expect that box to be mine to throw what size HD in I want (so long as the software supports it of course). By the time everyone has these boxes 5TB drives will be the norm at under £50.
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That PVR does sound a very nice bit of kit, did a quick google and was impressed.
Unfortunately it all boils down to marketing. No company in their right mind would release such a high tech piece of kit that is so fully customisable.
If they were to release something like that then it would cannibalise all other products and the inferior products would gather dust in the warehouse.