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Originally Posted by Welshchris
What a lot of people have to remember here also is it took VM over a year to fix the firmware on the VMNG300s and took 3 or more attempts at a firmware before it was fixed another reason i cant understand why they are scraping them so readily after spending so much time and money fixing them.
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Because that's what they want to do.
They only started making Samsung V+HD boxes a couple of years ago, but the long term plan is replace them all with TiVo
As with anything it's a balance of costs between historical investment and future product changes
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Any company I own shares in I would expect a longer life from kit and not be put in a recycling bin either. Recycling kit that still works, that can still be used and after only a short life is not the sort of thing to please investors.
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Unless there is a good reason to what that kit replaced - such as reducing the cost of supporting the kit and/or not being capable for the longer term plans of the broadband service
Going back and swapping kit at broadband upgrades is hugely expensive both from an equipment point of view and a cost in supporting the swapout via the call centres and installers
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Originally Posted by Bullstein
Roll on R27, then R28.....etc.....etc....etc
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Quite possibly. Even the best hardware in the world needs firmware updates