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Originally Posted by pauldavies83
They've had years to bring out a larger HDD V+ and not bothered, so why would they now when they can charge £199 for a TiVo?
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£199 is the premium Tivo box/service and that is the price for new customers of VM not existing customers. Sky charge something like £250 for their 1TB box although I've seen posts of deals being done bringing it down to £150 area.
Agree though that VM should have brought out a larger HDD before now but VM have publically stated there will be lower cost models coming out later this year (haven't got the link but it is buried on a thread on cable forum somewhere ), so a case of doing something they should have done some time ago agree. At least VM have stated they will be launching lower cost boxes later and that may be a 500Mb HDD at least so dealing with customer requirements for improved flexibility but not wanting to go to the full premium Tivo product.
It is a case of packaging in the end and the current Tivo box with all features is only the start. Also let’s not forget they plan to put Tivo software at least on some of the existing boxes (doesn't address the HDD capacity admittedly) but I expect that to be the Tivo UI only with no extra features like Internet information access, as I suspect you need the power of the new Cisco box to do that.