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Old 19-02-2015, 18:22   #821
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 1

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Originally Posted by passingbat View Post
Well, it happened with the current VM Tivo, which was based on the Tivo Premier.
The software was, but not the hardware. If you were to take the lid off a Premiere, a VM Cisco TiVo and a VM Samsung TiVo, you'd find they are all very different inside.

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Originally Posted by passingbat View Post
So it turned out to be good practice for the Tivo software developers before having to rewrite it for six tuners!
Sensibly, when developing for VM, they didn't make it support three. They made it support any number. So 4, 6 or anything else then became possible without any extra software development.
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