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Originally Posted by Bob
I am under the impression that the Bromley side of things is much more like Telewest - hence the reason they both have Pace 2000 and 4000 boxes which don't work on Langley  |
They also both have the 1000 and 1000+ boxes too (although Telewest call the latter the 1010).
Apparently, with an eye on a future merger/takeover, Telewest hired all the CWC engineers to put together their digital product. NTL, meanwhile, came up with a completely different and incompatible product.
And in the end, of course, it was NTL rather than TW who snapped up CWC, and the next 5 years or so were spent trying to come to terms with all the incompatibilties between the platforms.
I can't help but wonder how different digital cable would be in Britain today if NTL had also adopted the CWC system back in 99/2000....
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Originally Posted by quadplay
That's more like it. 
Although there's still plenty of differences which would stop the 8300 being rolled out on Bromley as it is - I can't discuss them though, I'm afraid. |
But I can
A semi-educated guess says that the PVR needs different SI/PSI to that which is sent to the standard STBs. And you've got to work out some way of getting the 8-day EPG to the box, if it's not downloaded onto the hard disk via the CM.
Am I close?