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Old 13-04-2011, 14:27   #372
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. II.

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Originally Posted by carlwaring View Post
It was. Still doesn't mean people weren't surprised by the functionality. The OS was Linux, the Tivo software was, and still is, proprietory.
What I was getting at is that the TiVo boxes were (and still are) pretty powerful and could be changed to add functionality because the hardware could support it

Quite unlike a normal STB where the hardware is designed to do a specific job, so adding new functions requires a new box.
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