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Originally Posted by ase001
You need to move away from the concept of tuners, any new box will have a single modem. The number of streams (channels in the old world) will be dependent on the bandwidth. In most cases recordings will be cloud based, not that it stores a fresh copy of the program! It will just set a record in a database that this registered user has requested on demand access to that program for 90days.
So any new Tivo box or whatever it maybe will resemble the Amazon Fire TV set top box, it maybe even an app on your smart TV!
These simple set top boxes probably cost £20-£30 each to buy in 10s of thousands, where as the Tivo boxes are north of £100 each. The value will be in the functionality of the software, not the features of the hardware.
VM are going to save millions in hardware costs, at £20-£30 each VM would just put one in the post if you current one failed. Fewer customer visits, no repairs equals less staff, reduced costs.
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Will this cloud-based concept need a stable, quick internet speed?
Not everyone has access to this at the moment. Would this also put internet prices up as everyone will be demanding more bandwidth (more channels)?
Sorry for the questions, but Its a good discussion and I like the way that VM would take it based on what you have said in your post.
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
I can't see that happening in the short or medium term - Virgin Media have hardware to broadcast dedicated linear TV streams that don't impact broadband capacity, and has a guaranteed QoS.
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Ben, do you know if VM have any plans with the TiVo at the moment?