General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)

[Ultimate.Conj]

Originally Posted by telegramsam

customers who have V and V+ boxes are already getting a raw deal with hardly any hd on demand so if 4on demand goes it will hardly be worth keeping. No doubt virgin will want us all to buy a second tivo box along with it`s costly monthly fee,`eh?

The Tivo fee is pretty high, £11.50 p/m...not sure that it warrants this amount.

I doubt there is anything on the cards to reduce this either.

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj

The Tivo fee is pretty high, £11.50 p/m...not sure that it warrants this amount.

I doubt there is anything on the cards to reduce this either.

TiVo is at most £5 more than a V HD or V+ HD box. The other £6.50 of that £11.50 applies to all additional boxes.

If you're on TV L or below then TiVo and the V+ HD box are the same price.

[Ultimate.Conj]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

TiVo is at most £5 more than a V HD or V+ HD box. The other £6.50 of that £11.50 applies to all additional boxes.

If you're on TV L or below then TiVo and the V+ HD box are the same price.

What is the need for the additonal £5?

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj

What is the need for the additonal £5?

You get TiVo

[telegramsam]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

You get TiVo

Personally I hardly never use any of the features on my tivo box such as wish list or you tube. My partner uses you tube but she could just as easily use it on the media box we have. The extra 5 or 6 quid I pay is a waste of money for me. If I had to get another tivo box because say my v hd box packed in would I have to pay a second tivo monthly fee if it was replaced with a tivo box?

[Ultimate.Conj]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

You get TiVo

Haha Brilliant....
I was expecting something along the lines on why TiVo costs more.

If you said TiVo costs a lot more to run than the V+ boxes due to the amount of data thats fed into it, I could accept that a little bit better than "YOU GET TIVO" lol

Personally I love the TiVo box, but not sure the name TIVO warrants £5 a month extra , just my opinion

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by telegramsam

If I had to get another tivo box because say my v hd box packed in would I have to pay a second tivo monthly fee if it was replaced with a tivo box?

It would be replaced with another V-HD box

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by telegramsam

If I had to get another tivo box because say my v hd box packed in would I have to pay a second tivo monthly fee if it was replaced with a tivo box?

You wouldn't have to get TiVo - if your V HD box stopped working it would be replaced by another V HD box.

If you chose to replace it with TiVo, then yes you would have to pay the extra £5.

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Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj

Haha Brilliant....
I was expecting something along the lines on why TiVo costs more.

That's been discussed to death over the years since TiVo was launched.

End of the day it boils down to 'because it does'.

[Ultimate.Conj]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

You wouldn't have to get TiVo - if your V HD box stopped working it would be replaced by another V HD box.

If you chose to replace it with TiVo, then yes you would have to pay the extra £5.

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That's been discussed to death over the years since TiVo was launched.

End of the day it boils down to 'because it does'.

Thats ok, I just wondered if there was a more technical aspect to it.
Its much better than a Sky+ (spit) box anyway lol

Does that mean if VM release a new box (e.g for 4K content) will the current price go down or will the newer box cost an extra £5 more than £11.50?

[johnathome]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

You wouldn't have to get TiVo - if your V HD box stopped working it would be replaced by another V HD box.

If you chose to replace it with TiVo, then yes you would have to pay the extra £5.

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That's been discussed to death over the years since TiVo was launched.

End of the day it boils down to 'because it does'.

I thought VM had to pay Tivo for using the epg?

[Ultimate.Conj]

Originally Posted by johnathome

I thought VM had to pay Tivo for using the epg?

That would make sense

[DaMac]

To someone mentally unstable, seriously TiVo died in this country once, and it will probably do so again, my Smart TV can already analyse what I watch via set top boxes and make suggestions for me based on that info and it doesn't cost extra a month, in a few years time TiVo will be a dinasour and VM will have backed the wrong horse again.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by DaMac

To someone mentally unstable, seriously TiVo died in this country once, and it will probably do so again, my Smart TV can already analyse what I watch via set top boxes and make suggestions for me based on that info and it doesn't cost extra a month, in a few years time TiVo will be a dinasour and VM will have backed the wrong horse again.

Be careful what you say in front of your Smart TV if it's a Samsung

[heavyside]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Be careful what you say in front of your Smart TV if it's a Samsung

LOL!

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by DaMac

To someone mentally unstable, seriously TiVo died in this country once, and it will probably do so again, my Smart TV can already analyse what I watch via set top boxes and make suggestions for me based on that info and it doesn't cost extra a month, in a few years time TiVo will be a dinasour and VM will have backed the wrong horse again.

Can your smart TV set a Wishlist, record to three separate tuners and automatically handle recording clashes across them?