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Originally Posted by carlwaring
It took exactly one year.
So you think they should have delayed the launch ever further?  |
As I said, enough time for me to move away and move back. And are you taking the date from which ex-TiVo customers were contacted, or the general release, which was IIRC about 4 months later?
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Originally Posted by carlwaring
As I said, it was one year.
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I meant between the launch of TiVo and the launch of multiroom streaming, which is almost 2 years since the launch of TiVo, and more than that since the functionality was first promised.
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Originally Posted by carlwaring
1. Did they ever say anything else?
2. You can also now stream some channels to other devices.
3. More on the way this year.
1. Where was this stated?
2. It may well do when these boxes have the Tivo software put on them.
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Virgin Media and/or their representatives definitely stated that streaming to V HD boxes would be possible. I'm not going to trawl through the archives on here and through various interviews and press releases - if you don't remember these then either you don't read this board as much as your post count suggest or you have memory issues.
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Originally Posted by carlwaring
And there we have your real reason for posting  |
No, the crux of my post was very well summarised by you yourself in the end of your original reply:
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Originally Posted by carlwaring
More to be added this year.
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And therein lies the problem - and it did for the 10 or so years I was with NTL and Virgin cumulatively. Vague promises which are as often as not not kept or not what they're expected to be.
HD Channels? We'll get some 'soon'.
Piracy making broadband unusable? We're clamping down 'next year'.
Addition of channels x,y,z? 'In discussions'.
A fix for the bug that causes V+ boxes to be unusable between midnight and 1am? We're working on it.
The shocking truth, Carl, is that I left as a loyal Virgin Media customer, and begrudgingly joined Sky as the other half wanted more than the limited Freeview offer available.
On 'the dark side' you actually get stuff, if not straight away then in a reasonable amount of time. A couple of examples:
Anytime content for non Sky Broadband customers, promised late-Winter 2012, delivered Spring 2012.
Sky+HD firmware improvements (not that there was much wrong with the old one), promised spring 2012, arrived summer 2012.
This is before you go in to all the useful legacy features Sky+ have which Virgin have never and will never bother[ed] with, like magic eye support.
Dare I mention Sky Atlantic? Oh I just did.
So yeah, occasionally I stop by when I have thoughts about rejoining, and it doesn't take long for me to realise what a frustrating experience it was most of the time.