Thread: TiVo Sky Q and VM answer ?
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Old 29-01-2016, 15:32   #66
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Re: Sky Q and VM answer????
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Originally Posted by BenMcr View Post
I'm not sure that's completely fair.

The current TiVo box hardware was made available to customers in December 2010 so would have been in development for a period of time before that (the partnership was announced in November 2009).

So some of the services you're comparing VM's TiVo to now didn't exist then, and even where some did, they're no longer supported (try getting iPlayer, Netflix or other streaming services on Smart TVs and consumer AV kit from 2009/2010)

I'm sure Virgin Media could have well created more powerful hardware at the time, but it would have meant charging more for it. And we all know how that would have gone down.

I do completely appreciate that 6 years is a long time in regards to hardware, but you only have to look at the responses that do happen when Virgin change their broadband kit, or recently where they're doing SciAt V+ swap to see that no matter which way around it goes, there is always someone that doesn't want to change, or is unhappy that they can't change.

I'm not denying that the existing TiVo hardware is likely due for some form of replacement, but you only have to look at the fact that most of what Sky Q does, TiVo already does to see that it's not that far behind the cure.
Sorry, Ben, I didn't mean to be unfair. The Tivo box is excellent in every way as far as I am concerned, the only problem being with the speed.

I do appreciate that developments in this area are coming thick and fast, but the addition of streaming services must surely have been anticipated back in 2009, even if the precise services may not have been known at the time.

I do also understand that price is an issue, but I hope the new box has sufficient processor capacity to deal with developments in this area that can be reasonably foreseen.
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