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Originally Posted by heeleybobs
It IS false advertising as TiVo capabilities are well known to the people this technology appeals to. Why promote that you have an advanced product for your service and disable the most useful and market leading features on said product..
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Actually, no. I'd rather they got the basics right first before adding bells and whistles; not to mention stuff useful only to a small number of its overall userbase. The bit in bold is subjective opinion only.
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It's clearly a ploy for allowing for future enhanced features to turn on and ensure that in the general publics view you are getting extra services to justify a higher subscription rate.
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It has not been announced anywhere that this new service will cost any extra and personally I don't think it will. So, at this time, your second point is incorrect.
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May I remind you that Virgin Media have done this before (started back in Telewest/NTL days) when broadband internet speeds were started as a maximum of 1Mbps when the fibre optic network is capable of (and has been without any modifications whatsoever for many years) more than 100 times this speed with very little cost to the service provider.
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Please cite a source for this statement of fact.
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I've had countless offers from the cable provider at the time that say something along the lines of "Great news! We are giving you a new enhanced [insert [Edited] here] at no additional cost” when it’s cost them nothing to give it to you anyhow, in an effort to remain competitive.
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So it's cost them nothing and they're giving it to you for nothing. So where's problem again?
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It is business basics to charge as much as possible for giving as little as possible in order to maximise profits, but I do ask not to be insulted by being told I'm getting some sort of enhanced service when none of the technology has been improved to provide it and it's just literally being switched on.
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I'm pretty damned sure that the equipment installed at VM that gives me my now 30mb connection is in no way exactly the same equipment that would have given ex-NTL users in this area their +/-1mb service however many years ago. If it is and VM have indeed never bought any new equipment, why are they so much in debt if they've spent nothing?
No, but you are talking complete BS.