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Originally Posted by DaMac
At the point where Virgin Media said to TiVo "Look we want to make your product available on our system and make it the best way to watch TV ever" shouldn't someone in VM have insisted that a dedicated UK technical team be sent here to work on and evolve the system for British use. It's what other big company's do, for example You don't think some guy sit's in Japan and design's a TV to work in Germany AND the Uk where Germany doesn't have Red Button services, but the UK does... no Panasonic have a dedicated UK team to make sure that stuff works, or can be fixed quickly if there is a problem. As usual with VM it is amateur hour.
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Hmm... Which is the bigger company; Panasonic (worldwide leading TV brand) or Virgin Media (small, UK only firm only covering half the country.)?
I take your point, and I agree with it, but there might be an "economy of scale" thing to consider.
That said, although we know all
coding has to be done by the US Tivo team, we don't know that there isn't some sort of team over here anyway. I'm sure VM
does have a dedicated Tivo team. (In fact, you can call them if you like on 0800 052 2184 for fault reports, etc.)
Not that one is needed nowadays with teleconferencing and the internet, of course
(Side note. So annoying when I don't bother quoting as my reply is "next" then find that someone's sneaked one in whilst I'm composing mine. So I end up going back and having to quote
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