Thread: TiVo Is the TiVo charge now £3 per month on all TV packs?
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Old 05-07-2011, 22:34   #242
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Re: Is the TiVo charge now £3 per month on all TV packs?
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Originally Posted by Chad View Post
As I posted a few days back, and now the refund accross the board has been confirmed, I hope the "65,000 pre-registered for next-generation TiVo TV" announced as part of the first quarter 2011 results on 20th April didn't actually take up the service. Surely Virgin can't afford £3,250,000 worth of refunds?

I've posted before that I don't think TiVo is selling well, and now I'm starting to see the signs. There is no way Virgin would refund millions worth of pounds without good reason, so I don't think current subscribers are anywhere near 65,000. Maybe the rumour I heard about 10,000 subscribers isn't as far off the mark as I thought. Also the way the TiVo price has been slashed smacks of desperation, it's almost as if Virgin are having a fire sale from launch.

When are the next quarter results announced, is it the end of July? Looks like Virgin are desperately trying to push up the numbers of TiVo subscribers before the end of this month to avoid egg on their face?

Just to clarify, I'm a very happy Virgin customer but I'm not blown away by TiVo whatsoever. I would have liked them to focus on more channels and content ahead of this fancy PVR.
http://broadcastengineering.com/news...502/index.html

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So far, Virgin Media has been constrained by the time taken to show customers how to use the TiVo content discovery features, which takes on average at least an hour on-site. By training existing engineers and fine-tuning the process, Virgin Media has been able to ramp up TiVo box deployment to 1000 a day, which means it is heading for about 300,000 subscribers by the end of 2011. At that rate, it would take a decade for the TiVo box to make it through even the existing customer base, but Virgin Media plans to ramp up deployment further as its network continues to be upgraded and expanded
If you assume that VM have been installing since the end of March (since previous VM emails have implied that), and if there have been 1,000 installs per day, then you're looking at around 97,000, maybe a bit less since they've ramped up to 1,000 per day. That's just me speculating.
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