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Originally Posted by LexDiamond
That's true and IMHO I'm surprised a company like Tivo actually survived this long considering it hasn't done too much to update its product, which wasn't all the useful to the average guy in the first place.
But in the UK the situation is different. They will probably have more customers here than they have in the US as VM's plans mean we VM customers will eventually not have a choice as to whether or not we actually want the Tivo. The service over here isn't the same as the US as the stb isn't by them but still it should be lucrative for them and they also have potential to expand its range of services.
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For the life of me I do not understand why VM didn't go to a trusted long standing partner like Kudelski (who own the Nagra CA system) but who also own the highly successful and advanced Open TV middleware and get a more mainstream subscription free solution from them.
They could have come up with an answer to replace the ageing Liberate middleware and it would have been more then enough for most customers and as it's in well over 100m STB's (includng Sky's) they must be doing something right.
Tivo just seems expensive, bloated and provides features most of us couldn't care less about.