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Originally Posted by alwaysabear
The TiVo box should be the best on the market I don't think anyone is denying that. But to release it without the three tuners operational is just plain stupid why would anyone pay for some thing that does less than what they have already.
Lets be honest the only way that Virgin can compete with sky as far as tV is concerned is VOD and I imagine that is the direction VM will go more into in the future.
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I must say it seems a mistake to launch a box that isn't fully functional but hopefully an upgrade will follow sooner rather than later. Not 'coming soon' as we often hear.
A pay VOD service is only as good as the content offered, you can have all the technology and fibre you like but you need something compelling to broadcast. They stuck with OD for years and finally realised it was linear HD that a lot of people also wanted, and to their credit they have come on leaps and bounds now.
Let's be clear though you don't need fibre for a decent OD service, I had BT Vision on a maximum 7mb ADSL2 line and it was faultless, ok no HD streaming but it was really good. I think the free YouView services are going to be huge and offer real competition in this financial climate so long as they can get the boxes sold at a reasonable price. Of course if you cannot get a decent line speed you are snookered but a lot of people can. A Freeview HD+ box with all manner of on demand is a brilliant offer for many, and no ongoing costs unless you choose to buy content and it will offer many of the bells and whistles of Tivo too like apps and a backwards EPG. I was lucky enough to see an offline demo of it at BT in Liverpool and it looks mightly impressive.
I only really use catch up but maybe I am in the minority, however you don't see that many posts on here when OD is discussed about anything other than catch up though, do you?