TiVo

[WooLLsterQ]

Originally Posted by Gavin-D

Hi, a virgin media van was parked near my house in Darlington this morning and on the dash board all boxed up was the new TiVo box printed on the brown cardboard box it was Cisco so this must mean the engineers are been given them.

That is a Cisco box!

[vanman]

Originally Posted by WooLLsterQ

That is a Cisco box!

Cisco is the manufacturers name of the tivo box.
and the v.box

[jb66]

I was at the store and never got a tivo

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by jb66

I was at the store and never got a tivo

You wouldn't. It won't be given a large scale launch until next year.

Originally Posted by Gavin-D

Hi, a virgin media van was parked near my house in Darlington this morning and on the dash board all boxed up was the new TiVo box printed on the brown cardboard box it was Cisco so this must mean the engineers are been given them.

How do you know it's a Tivo box? Cisco also provide the new V boxes.

I haven't seen the packaging used for the Cisco STBs, but the packaging they use for their professional swtiches, routers and hubs tends to be just brown cardboard boxes with Cisco logos, and no indication of what's inside.

[vanman]

Originally Posted by jb66

I was at the store and never got a tivo

when will tivo be demoed in our retail shops so people can see it in action? - initially it will be demoed in the oxford st and westfield stores only across jan/feb 2011, all other retail stores will be enabled with the roll-out plan still being worked through for when these will start.

[Gavin-D]

Originally Posted by Stuart

You wouldn't. It won't be given a large scale launch until next year.



How do you know it's a Tivo box? Cisco also provide the new V boxes.

I haven't seen the packaging used for the Cisco STBs, but the packaging they use for their professional swtiches, routers and hubs tends to be just brown cardboard boxes with Cisco logos, and no indication of what's inside.

Ah i wasn't aware of that sorry.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Gavin-D

Ah i wasn't aware of that sorry.

No need to apologise..

[WooLLsterQ]

Originally Posted by vanman

Cisco is the manufacturers name of the tivo box.
and the v.box

Well done, but the fact remains they are not even in Red Shed Stores yet so it was definately a Cisco!!

The V HD boxes, which are know as Cisco's to the engineer come in a plain brown box with Cisco on. What you saw was a cisco box but i can understand your confusion we all just want our Tivo's!!!

[Taf]

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/tv-recorde...view-50001852/

£200 for a box that you have to hand back if you leave Virgin?

[jb66]

Originally Posted by Taf

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/tv-recorde...view-50001852/

£200 for a box that you have to hand back if you leave Virgin?

£200 for a box with a lifetime warrrenty?

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by Taf

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/tv-recorde...view-50001852/

£200 for a box that you have to hand back if you leave Virgin?

If you buy a HD box from SKY it is your property and they only support it for free for one year after which you have to add an insurance subscription to your package which can be around £10 per month.

You only lease the box from Virginmedia and as it always remains their property they provide free service engineers and even replace faulty equipment for whole time that you are a subscriber.

You are paying the £200 to be one of the first to have such a box in your property and the customers that get this box will have the bragging rights sewn up.

It is your money and you can choose whichever provider you prefer but if both are available to you then I would vote with my wallet every time.

[vanman]

Originally Posted by WooLLsterQ

Well done, but the fact remains they are not even in Red Shed Stores yet so it was definately a Cisco!!

The V HD boxes, which are know as Cisco's to the engineer come in a plain brown box with Cisco on. What you saw was a cisco box but i can understand your confusion we all just want our Tivo's!!!

i think that it is you that is confused go back to post #269
and read more carefully

[pauldavies83]

I really don't agree with this "free service engineers" line - lets face it, you should be getting free service engineers regardless. We shouldn't be slapping Virgin on the back and saying "well done" for this.

The customer is paying a subscription to watch a TV service - if the equipment Virgin insist you use to receive this subscription doesn't work, I'd expect it was repaired without charge! Otherwise you would be paying for something you couldn't access.

The £200 upfront charge is buying the equipment in for Virgin for them to then rent to you, plain and simple. When you rent a TV, or lease a car, your not paying the company up front for it for them to buy it and then paying the rental on it as well. They buy their asset, and then you pay the rental to them.

So Virgin seem to want it both ways. Good luck to them - best of both worlds for them and their business model

PS we all know Sky try to con you out of ~£60 to send a service engineer out - doesn't mean people pay it. I know people who have had multiple service visits free of charge.

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by pauldavies83

I really don't agree with this "free service engineers" line - lets face it, you should be getting free service engineers regardless. We shouldn't be slapping Virgin on the back and saying "well done" for this.

The customer is paying a subscription to watch a TV service - if the equipment Virgin insist you use to receive this subscription doesn't work, I'd expect it was repaired without charge! Otherwise you would be paying for something you couldn't access.

The £200 upfront charge is buying the equipment in for Virgin for them to then rent to you, plain and simple. When you rent a TV, or lease a car, your not paying the company up front for it for them to buy it and then paying the rental on it as well. They buy their asset, and then you pay the rental to them.

So Virgin seem to want it both ways. Good luck to them - best of both worlds for them and their business model

PS we all know Sky try to con you out of ~£60 to send a service engineer out - doesn't mean people pay it. I know people who have had multiple service visits free of charge.

You pays your money you make your choice, it is down to you if you want the latest piece of kit or not as SKY will not have TiVo.

Originally Posted by pauldavies83

I really don't agree with this "free service engineers" line - lets face it, you should be getting free service engineers regardless. We shouldn't be slapping Virgin on the back and saying "well done" for this.

The customer is paying a subscription to watch a TV service - if the equipment Virgin insist you use to receive this subscription doesn't work, I'd expect it was repaired without charge! Otherwise you would be paying for something you couldn't access.

The £200 upfront charge is buying the equipment in for Virgin for them to then rent to you, plain and simple. When you rent a TV, or lease a car, your not paying the company up front for it for them to buy it and then paying the rental on it as well. They buy their asset, and then you pay the rental to them.

So Virgin seem to want it both ways. Good luck to them - best of both worlds for them and their business model

PS we all know Sky try to con you out of ~£60 to send a service engineer out - doesn't mean people pay it. I know people who have had multiple service visits free of charge.

You cant just call up and ask for a call out for free with Sky. If your box has totally failed you might be able to blag a call out from them but on the other hand you might not. Sky charge eight or nine pounds a month to get a guaranteed call out so they obviously dont think the sky way is perfect either. All your negative posts tend to suggest that you dont think it is worth having a tivo box anyway so you are perhaps not the best to judge whether the price is worth it. Personally I do think from what I have read that it is worth paying extra for tivo and a 1Tb drive. The only thing I can see against it is that the price will probably drop within a year but that is always a disadvantage to being one of the first. When things are new and in short supply companies can sell them at a premium price. How much money have the first purchasers of the Sky 1Gb box lost in the last few months?