Cable Forum - View Single Post - Tivo V6 Virgin Media V6

Jong1 · 29-09-2016, 10:16

@old boy, @muppetman11,

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for streaming, all for "the cloud". I subscribe to Netflix and Amazon. I'm not stuck in some old model of TV watching!

Even buying series and episodes from iTunes, Amazon Video and the plethora of other similar services involves the cloud. I said that "original" series have just about unlimited windows on Sky, Netflix, Amazon etc. You are right that physical media is diminshing in importance, although Blu-ray (now UHD Blu-ray) will offer a quality edge, for enthusiasts, for the forseeable future (maybe 5+ years).

I was just responding to the idea that services will offer dependable, long-term (1 year +) catch-up for non-original material and I just don't see that happening. Even The BBC sells DVD and downloads of their series after catch-up and won't want to see that go. Game of Thrones, is probably Sky's number one attention-grabbing, exclusive TV show (other than sport), that can draw subscriptions, yet Sky have not managed to get, or were not prepared to pay for, an unlimited replay window - the show comes and goes from their Box Sets around the time the latest series is showing.

So, my view, FWIW and until I am humbled by some big announcement from Sky or Virgin, is that a cloud-based equivalent of a PVR, where you don't have to pay per show/series to watch and you don't feel under any time pressure to view and where you are not specifically subscribing to the content producer's streaming service, won't happen.

29-09-2016, 10:16	#560
Jong1 Inactive Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 125	Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB) @old boy, @muppetman11, Don't get me wrong, I'm all for streaming, all for "the cloud". I subscribe to Netflix and Amazon. I'm not stuck in some old model of TV watching! Even buying series and episodes from iTunes, Amazon Video and the plethora of other similar services involves the cloud. I said that "original" series have just about unlimited windows on Sky, Netflix, Amazon etc. You are right that physical media is diminshing in importance, although Blu-ray (now UHD Blu-ray) will offer a quality edge, for enthusiasts, for the forseeable future (maybe 5+ years). I was just responding to the idea that services will offer dependable, long-term (1 year +) catch-up for non-original material and I just don't see that happening. Even The BBC sells DVD and downloads of their series after catch-up and won't want to see that go. Game of Thrones, is probably Sky's number one attention-grabbing, exclusive TV show (other than sport), that can draw subscriptions, yet Sky have not managed to get, or were not prepared to pay for, an unlimited replay window - the show comes and goes from their Box Sets around the time the latest series is showing. So, my view, FWIW and until I am humbled by some big announcement from Sky or Virgin, is that a cloud-based equivalent of a PVR, where you don't have to pay per show/series to watch and you don't feel under any time pressure to view and where you are not specifically subscribing to the content producer's streaming service, won't happen.