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Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj
I don't understand the point you are trying to make with your comment.
You knew I meant - It would be good to have a different UK/VM (specific) version of a 6 Tuner box with a big hard-drive.
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The situation is different with the US tivo and I assume he is saying you can't compare the US boxes with ours.
In the US, tivo make the boxes which consumers then buy and then connect them up to their cable connection and get whatever services are available from their cableco. Here, VM license the tivo software/brand/technology, get someone to make the box for VM, then put the tivo software onto it.
So, he's saying you can't just have a VM version of a US tivo, because it's a totally different setup. VM could ask someone to make a six tuner box, then get the tivo software put onto it, but I doubt that will happen at least with tivo software that is...
In any case, tivo are stuggling in the US as cablecos over there now have their own advanced boxes with their own software running on them. Check out Comcast's offering, as an example:
http://www.comcast.com/x1