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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
They have to pay TiVo £3 per box, so even if they hid the charge in the overall package, the package would still be £3-£5 more expensive. If they didn't charge, then they'd lose £3-£5 per box.
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Whilst I do understand that they have to pay Tivo £3 per box for all Tivo customers, however for that don't Tivo then fund all the ongoing development etc.
Surely at the moment, VM must be having to pay for the software development and ongoing support charges for the software the V+HD runs on (Liberate?), so essentially today there is a cost to VM per month per box for all current V+HD customers aswell(being the total cost to VM of all the people employed or subcontract costs incurred in running the product, divided by the number of customers still using the product).
Incidentally, as more and more customers move over to Tivo, this cost per customer of the V+HD box will be getting larger and larger (due to a decreasing pool of customers to absorb the cost over).
The sooner VM can get EVERYBODY off the V+HD, the sooner they can completly eliminate this cost from the business.
Sorry - starting to ramble a bit
The point I was trying to make is that it isn't 'necessarily' going to cost VM £3 per person more every time they switch an existing customer into Tivo, so the bundle prices arn't forced to have to go up by this amount once V+HD gets fully retired?
Cheers
T