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					Originally Posted by passingbat  My mind is hazy on this, but I thought that Sky had the franchise for Tivo series 1 and behind the scenes were developing Sky+ and then dropped Tivo.
 
 Once the VM Tivo appeared, wasn't it Tivo who dropped support for series 1?
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 Originally sky yes but then Tivo went independent and you could use it with Freeview, Sky or Cable by paying a monthly sub for the guide data or a one off Lifetime payment. Then Virgin entered into a UK exclusive agreement (as I understand it) with Tivo and the monthy subs/ "lifetime agreements" were null and voided, effectively killing it off although some clever people kept it going at least for a while.