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Originally Posted by ahardie
That wont be much of a spoiler though. Their new box only has one advantage over their old ones, namely the larger drive. Also i wouldn't be too happy if I had paid £300 for the box and suddenly they were giving it away. VM at least can cut the price by offering a tivo box with a smaller drive without peeing off early adopters too much. At the end of the day content aside the new VM box should be far superior to the Sky boxes. With many modern features. It will be hard for Sky to counter that. I'm not saying that will make many (or any) people change from Sky. I am just saying we should give credit were it is due.
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I don't personally think it would be a huge draw cutting the cost of a 1TB box either simply because most people don't need it, but I could see them doing it. Most people probably record their shows and more often than not delete a lot of it. We do but I obviously cannot speak for everyone but 1TB? Like I say you don't see them for sale much on the highstreet do you? Maybe as you say they will introduce smaller HDD's but............
When we consider only around a quarter of VM's customer base even has V+, which is dirt cheap and been around for donkeys years I cannot possibly see why VM think they are going to spend a couple of hundred pounds on Tivo.
Maybe they don't, as DF says maybe it's a way to tie in higher tier subscribers and avoid churn.
Almost 3/4 of VM's customer base clearly don't require ANY recording facilities, let alone a 1TB box which isn't surprising to me personally given the excellent on demand catch up service which in a way seems to be a shot in Tivo's foot to me.
Maybe the V HD box with Tivo will be the real draw, who knows.