The £3 is a charge that Virgin have decided is appropriate to charge for its TiVo service. Virgin is paying TiVo on an incremental basis that rises over time (and also by customer numbers I believe). At the end of the day its a charge for a service that is optional, if you dont want to pay for it then dont take the service.
I remember paying £50 per month for 4Mb broadband many moons ago, sometimes you pay the price for being a technical trend setter...
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Originally Posted by DaBoz
Question on the 3 tuners buffering (when 3rd enabled). On V+, the "active" tuner, i.e. the one I'm watching, buffers as you change channels, so flip a channel and it starts recording from the moment the channel is flipped. Then you can re-wind, pause and skip forward up to live. So, is that "buffering"?
If so, what does buffering on all 3 tuners actually mean? If something is being recorded, then presumably the tuner flips channel just before the program starts and records until approx the end of the program. No buffering there.
So what is 3 tuner buffering? Do the non-active tuners (perhaps all 3 if the box is "off" and nothing is being watched) arbitrarily decide to buffer different channels? Do they only buffer channels that are due to have something recorded soon?
It all seems a bit odd.
Boz
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Buffering happens on a channel you start watching. If you have all 3 tuners buffering and a recording is about to start then one of the tuners will transfer to recording instead, but you will get a pop up message asking if you want to continue or cancel the recording. This happens already under 2 tuners.
HTH