Thread: TiVo Is the TiVo charge now £3 per month on all TV packs?
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Old 27-07-2011, 23:32   #378
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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
I suppose it all depends when they decide to roll it our to every customer. I'd imagine customers who get TiVo, but don't actually request TiVo will get it free of charge? TiVo will be a success if Virgin claw back their costs for development, production and marketing before they start rolling it out across the whole network.
Virgin didn't develop anything they licensed TiVo and had it tailored to their needs. Remember Virgin is just one of Tivos customers as they are rolling this out to some of the smaller cable companies in the US and Europe. Even the box is the same one several other European cable companies are using so they didn't even have a custom box made.

This would have been far cheaper then developing one in house and as other cable companies ask for more tailoring we can expect more features being rolled out to us.

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Originally Posted by Chad View Post
Yeah I know but I was concerned about the £3.00 charge for the TiVo EPG, or whatever the £3.00 covers. Surely customers who don't request a TiVo update won't be expected to pay £3.00 per month for whatever version of TiVo they eventually receive.

Wow the above post finally pulls this thread back on topic, or as close to is as it's been for pages now.....mainly due to me
Remember that the EPG data is not provided by TiVo Virgin signed with Turbine who just happened to supply TiVo in the US. They could have signed with any number of providers for this service.
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