What I love about Virgin's TiVo offering is that it allows you to cut through the dross which ALL channels show in amongst the few nuggets of real quality. When I had Sky I had thousands of channels but never anything to watch, now I have fewer channels but am never stuck.
This is also how I feel about (what I consider to be the excellent) IPlayer app on TiVo - it allows me to cut through a lot of the rubbish that the BBC produces and find some really excellent television. And lets be fair, the BBC does make some really excellent television.
However, whilst I can accept that TiVo is a great tool for sorting through the rubbish churned out by commercial channels, I find it hard to reconcile the need for a tool to sort through the rubbish produced by the BBC. There shouldn't be any!
I don't really have an opinion about the future of the licence fee or who should control it. What I do know is that you'd struggle to find a pay TV option for about a tenner a month with 5 SD channels, 2 HD channels and an enormous on demand library - factor in the radio channels and it really is superb value for money. But what I do have an opinion about is quantity over quality, and in future I'd really like to see less, not more from the BBC because, as Felim quite rightly points out, they really are now paying the price for trying to compete with some of the trash served up elsewhere. And thats a shame.
On a slightly different note, my wife is up in arms about one of the, admittedly unconfirmed, suggestions on here that we might lose E! at some point in 2012 and wants to know who to email
