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Originally Posted by nn012
This bit has been added today to the interview:
So that's confirmation from the horse's mouth that ntl: will indeed be introducing the TW TVDrive box and not the original MPEG-4 Explorer 8450 PVR announced before the merger.
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Yes - we've known about this change for a while on this thread - but ntl: just happen to mention it now, after being prodded by further questioning from another site.
This of course is the same box thats giving TW TVD subscribers, who essentially are acting as unpaid beta testers in some cases, no end of hassle with recording bugs and software faults, which by the tiime its released to us, may still be there, along with new ones created by the code rewrite and the fact that it wasn't originally meant to be used on our side of the network at all.
And alas, the call centres and us are going to be last to know whats happening with HD and PVR, at a guess I'd say that they're still working on the "old" pre-merger plans of the 8450 being released around now.
Sky management and their HD development team must be laughing their heads off at the mess ntl: are in on this one. Despite the initial problems that they're having with box supplies, in the long game ntl's lack of a coherent policy on the PVR and HD is an open goal for them to aim at and poach disgruntled ntl: subscribers who can't as yet sample any HD at all - not counting the TW subscribers that can potentially access TVD/HD.