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Old 23-02-2011, 15:42   #2918
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Re: TiVo

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Originally Posted by Stuart View Post
That's what happens when the company you are relying on to market and manage the product in one country (in our case BSkyB) is developing a competitor.

The reason Tivo failed in this country is that it was badly marketed. Whether that was a deliberate act on the part of Sky, I'll leave up to you to decide.
So it was nothing to do with its expense, or desirability then? It's all just Sky's fault?

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Originally Posted by clinteastman View Post
It's also worth pointing out the old TiVo was a 2 box solution, a bit like Google TV, not very handy (even I couldn't be bothered with that) where VM TiVo is just the one box.
So was it's competitor at the time (a VCR).

Sky+ was the first integrated PVR in this country, a year after TiVo was first released.
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