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Originally Posted by Rattus
The problem is the £3s per month add up, well over £100 per month is getting ridiculous for media services.
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But it's not like you're forced into getting a TiVo box. It's a choice.
Ultimately, Virgin are having to pay Tribune an amount of money to provide episode guide data formatted in a particular manner, tagged with appropriate metadata (eg: actors, genres) and so on. Clawing back some of that cost from TiVo subscribers - who all chose to partake of the TiVo service - doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Otherwise the burden of cost is more likely to be spread across all Virgin subscribers (irrespective of TV package) so that the company doesn't make a loss on the venture.
If everyone was forced into upgrading to TiVo, then I can see cause for complaint, but this is not the case.