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Re: TiVo
Like many, I'm a bit disappointed that pre-registered customers are not to get free install, like those lucky pre-registered people who got an early install and only had to pay the £149.95 activation charge......
....but let's not forget that Virgin Media are a business and quickly calculate how much (potential) profit they would lose by giving free install to all of the remaining pre-registered people, estimated at 50,000.
The answer is £2 MILLION pounds. A not insignificant sum of money for any business in today's business climate.
I estimate this to be four times the cost in lost revenue of the completely free TiVos given away to S1 TiVo users and lucky draw winners.
Will having to pay £189.95 rather than £149.95 really make the difference if you really want to be an early adopter of TiVo?
If yes then perhaps waiting for a few months might be the best approach.
As an early adopter of the Telewest TVDrive (aka V+), I had to pay £75 install charge then £10 a month for 15 months until the charge was removed for new customers in June 2007 and I as an early adopter had to pay £150 to have the £10 per month charge removed.
I make that £375 to be an early adopter of V+. At £189.95, TiVo is a snip.
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