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Thats why Telewest offer a 10/384k service as opposed to ntl's 10/1mbit service.
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They do?
Best tell ntl this they don't appear to have such a service released or planned.
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Not forgetting the coming 4mb/400k v TW's 4/384k.
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Difference being of course Telewest have been offering 4/384k in some markets since last year while precisely no-one has 4/400 from ntl available yet. It's also fairly well accepted that ntl's very slightly higher upload will come with traffic shaping. Not necessarily a bad thing just mentioning you aren't comparing like for like. Considering the amounts of cash both companies had available for upgrades Telewest didn't do
that badly and made more bandwidth available to their customers in some far more innovative ways than ntl.
I am amused at the way that people are blaming the Telewest CTO for halting the development of the ntl HD PVR, as if he works for a seperate company, works in a total vacuum and arbitrarily made the decisions to rush the Telewest PVR out and to prevent release of the ntl one. Surprisingly enough he's part of the same company as a lot of other people, at least one of whom would have been able to veto his decisions, but hasn't. Such a decision would be made at board level and MD / CEO would have had final word.
TV Drive does indeed have issues, though so did Sky+ when it was released, that's just what happens when products are released, nothing is ever bug free when released and ntl's PVR / HD won't be bug free when finally released either.
Here's hoping the interactive content and firmware is nothing to do with the original interactive developers. I used to think of them as my personal trainers, thanks to them I had to repeatedly get up from my chair while watching TV to power cycle the set top
