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Originally Posted by Chad
Well the results are in:
http://investors.virginmedia.com/ima...DetailsID=1112
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"The strong early demand for this service has matched our high expectations and, as of 26th July, we had approximately 50,000 installed TiVo customers."
As posted about 3 weeks ago on this thread I suspected Tivo was not a major sucess so far, and these figures prove it. 65,000 pre registers in April, plus a price slash at the beginning of this month and so far only 50,000 TiVo's have been installed. Got to remember there are people posting here and other forums who have 2 and even 3 TiVo boxes so it's not as if 50,000 unique customers have taken the service. Plus there was a couple of thousand customers who received TiVo free at the start too.
Poor, poor results. Maybe Virgin should refocus their attention to HD channels and other content. I suspect another price slash for TiVo will be coming soon! |
Sorry Chad but how are they poor results as tivo is still in its infancy and remember they have only just started to sell to new customers.
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Originally Posted by Jameseh
Why would they even contemplate that? Its cheap-as-chips as it is.
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Yes what do people want do they want it for nothing.
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Originally Posted by Chad
That's poor if the info posted previously is accurate:
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...h-page-17.html
Apparently Virgin ramped installs up to 1000 per day. If this info is true then either Virgin are falling way behind with their installs or demand is drying up. Virgin should be way ahead of 50,000 installs at the moment.
Also put this into perspective, if all of Virgins 3,800,000 TV customers take a TiVo box, at 550 installs per day it's going to take 19 years for Virgin to finally provide a box to every customer  |
l suspect in a year your thoughts will be very different on the tivo Chad.
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Originally Posted by muppetman11
I would be more concerned about holding onto TIVO customers , they need to vastly improve their HD offering , its all well having the tech but the content will always win out for most people.
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And l am sure in the next few months there will be quite a bit more added to the tv package.
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Originally Posted by alwaysabear
I would agree with you and muppetman!
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Pessimism seems to be the order of the day today with several legendary forum members and my advice is just be patient.