[RichardCoulter]

Thanks MM.


After selling Smallworld to VM (which only took about four weeks to go through), David, the former owner, has said that he thinks he could have got more money from at least one other party. The reason he didn't was because he thought that VM would be best for his customers and staff in the long term. Particularly their comittment to faster broadband and their contract with TiVo.

He's not gone mad with the money yet, only buying his wife a new car. He is looking into pursuing other business oportunities.

Interestingly, the existing Smallworld PVR can record up to four channels with it's dual tuner!

Edit: Just remembered that he once said that Disney no longer wanted to supply their channels to such a small company and he had to take tnem off. It wasn't too small for VM not to bother with was it! In any case, the only 'work' that Disney had to do was collect the monthly payments!