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Originally Posted by Jong1
Yeah, I was waiting for that and I understand.
But, I have been here for years and, as I posted earlier today a cable TV customer for 28 years. I have been promised so many times that cable had the technology to win.
- Originally it was that they could deliver more channels down a cable than Sky had room on "limited" satellites.
- Then cable could deliver On Demand, and Sky couldn't "from a satellite"
- Then TiVo would offer a new world of integrated broadcast and internet TV, back in 2010.
Each time the opportunity and promise was wasted.
Finally, 3 moths ago, I jumped ship (for TV only) when I got a 4K TV and my TiVo ground to a halt. But still, in my heart of hearts I'd like to see cable deliver on it's promise and switch back.
I have waited for the V6 announcement in the hope they were holding something back. But, IMO, no, it seems they have given up on the top-end of the TV market, which if it works for them it's fine.
I guess I will stop posting here until the V7 or whatever, if it offers promise, once I've got my disappointment out of my system! But, still, I think it is important for people to compare and contrast these 2 systems, so they can decide what is right for them.
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I feel the same. It COULD have been so good if they just got some of the basics right and fixed a few things in the annual update instead of causing new problems like Dolby Digital (ok that was finally fixed but it took too long) and poorly implementing Series Links+ that, for some people like me, broke something that worked. I don't want 4K, in fact most of what I watch isn't even in HD. That said HD has become unwatchable for me due to lip-sync problems - I assume that still hasn't been addressed in V6? And I don't want a bigger tv because SD is too badly compressed and already looks c**p. For me there are still just too many bugs to even consider making sacrifices like losing scart for multi-room television. I have learned to live without On Demand as that has never worked due to either 25% buffering, random errors or just slow performance, so there are no benefits there. 6 tuners will just fill up 1Tb twice as quick with the same duplicates episodes/repeats. Even wishlist films just re-record a few weeks after you last deleted them! It just wasn't good enough for me and it COULD have easily been so much better.