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Originally Posted by Rattus
To be fair how has TIVO significantly changed in 10 years? Other than to actually stop making hardware (step backwards)?
The software does pretty much exactly the same now as it did then, granted there is new stuff like mobile interaction (but that's not really a TIVO specific thing).
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Originally Posted by Rattus
I do think some people are getting totally sucked in to the VM hype.
TIVO is a new PVR, nothing more. Let's not pretend it's going to change the way people watch TV the way PVRs did originally with linear TV.
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Originally Posted by Rattus
Things like mobile control, youtube and ordering Pizzas, and actually recording the right series are not going to change the world as we know it.
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100% spot on. TiVo's big unique features in software (wishlists, season pass, suggestions) have not changed in 10 years - only the hardware has.
Ordering pizza's and the like via the TV has been done and died (on cable and Sky) - very few use this kind of thing. Why? It's easier to pick up the phone or the internet connected computer.
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Originally Posted by Rattus
Yes it has stuff i want (and need) like a bigger hard drive. But it a bit emperors new cloths to me, the longer the launch has dragged on the less i see that impresses.
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Bigger hard drive could easily go into refurbished V+ boxes, but Virgin have decided against this for years. Why is anyone's guess.
So my 2 cents is, no, TiVo alone will not entice subscribers from Sky.
Broadband speeds, pricing and on-demand might. But that was also the case before TiVo appeared.
A sweeping generalisation I know, but your average man in the street wants to turn their TV on and watch it - not play about with fancy menus and apps.
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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
people said that about HD
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According to this, people still are saying that about HD...
http://www.itproportal.com/2010/12/0...tv-says-ofcom/
59% of households have a HD-ready set, but only 13% actually have access to a HD source.