TiVo - Page 74

weesteev · 27-01-2011, 16:29

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Originally Posted by Horizon

I think considering the price of hard drives now, I agree with these comments. A 1tb hard drive can be bought from ebuyer for under Â£40, a 2tb for under Â£60. Think of the numbers VM buy them in....

Although VM dont buy hard drives, they have a contract with manufacturers for the supply of STB's with set specifications.

royaltiger · 27-01-2011, 16:31

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Originally Posted by weesteev

73 pages later and people still asking... Im amazed at the tenacity of some people

Its great isn't it .

WooLLsterQ · 27-01-2011, 16:31

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Originally Posted by ShadowTD

I think someone's got confused between the TiVO Premiere in the states which does come in two flavours (and has wireless and THX) and the Cisco-made UK VM TiVO. Everything we've heard so far indicates only a 1TB box for the UK.

Some sense finally!!

muppetman11 · 27-01-2011, 16:32

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Originally Posted by ShadowTD

I think someone's got confused between the TiVO Premiere in the states which does come in two flavours (and has wireless and THX) and the Cisco-made UK VM TiVO. Everything we've heard so far indicates only a 1TB box for the UK.

No Neil Berkett did an investors session were smaller drives were mentioned. But I believe these will come later on in the year.

BenJSmyth · 27-01-2011, 16:33

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

No Neil Berkett did an investors session were smaller drives were mentioned. But I believe these will come later on in the year.

Never mind a different, smaller, version of Tivo. Where is the 1tb version?!

WooLLsterQ · 27-01-2011, 16:33

You can down load the user guide in the help section of the main VM site, it gives all the features of the VM Tivo STB!!

http://www.virginmedia.com/tivo/tivo_complete_guide.pdf

royaltiger · 27-01-2011, 16:34

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Originally Posted by BenJSmyth

The things is, when Tivo is eventually released to us all, this part of the forum will be deathly quiet as we'll all be sat glued to our boxes playing with it!

No we switch to Sky+ and start complaining about that not being as good as Tivo

BenJSmyth · 27-01-2011, 16:37

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Originally Posted by royaltiger

No we switch to Sky+ and start complaining about that not being as good as Tivo

I don't think I'll ever go back to Sky again. Virgin's service is far superior in my view.

There was some talk of different deals or release times/dates for VIP customers as well. I wonder if that is still the case....?

Horizon · 27-01-2011, 16:46

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Originally Posted by ShadowTD

I think someone's got confused between the TiVO Premiere in the states which does come in two flavours (and has wireless and THX) and the Cisco-made UK VM TiVO. Everything we've heard so far indicates only a 1TB box for the UK.

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Originally Posted by WooLLsterQ

Some sense finally!!

Go to your companies' web site, go to the investor section and go through the presentations Berkett made. It's on there, he said it, unless he's lying!

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WooLLsterQ · 27-01-2011, 16:49

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Originally Posted by Horizon

Go to your companies' web site, go to the investor section and go through the presentations Berkett made. It's on there, he said it, unless he's lying!

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There will not be a 320gb Tivo box at launch.

muppetman11 · 27-01-2011, 17:05

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Originally Posted by WooLLsterQ

There will not be a 320gb Tivo box at launch.

Correct probably be the end of 2011 before we see them.

royaltiger · 27-01-2011, 17:24

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Originally Posted by WooLLsterQ

There will not be a 320gb Tivo box at launch.

True, but there will be a watered down version later, probably for customers as all the staff will have the 1TB models

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whizzard · 27-01-2011, 17:27

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Originally Posted by WooLLsterQ

The 6000 are for staff again I'm afraid peeps, its for the staff that missed out on Tivo 500 and it also went live for staff to order on the boiler room on Tuesday this week.

Incorrect, a percentage of those boxes will be for staff. The rest will be for actual customers.

muppetman11 · 27-01-2011, 17:30

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Originally Posted by royaltiger

True, but there will be a watered down version later, probably for customers as all the staff will have the 1TB models

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Well I won't be paying 189 for a 320gb version LOL :-) incidentally can anyone tell me where this existing customer price has come from as I've only seen a price of 199 + 40 install.

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Originally Posted by whizzard

Incorrect, a percentage of those boxes will be for staff. The rest will be for actual customers.

Well there must have been more than 6000 pre registered so there'll be some upset people.

whizzard · 27-01-2011, 17:31

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

Well I won't be paying 189 for a 320gb version LOL :-) incidentally can anyone tell me where this existing customer price has come from as I've only seen a price of 199 + 40 install.

Â£199/Â£40 install/Â£3 month price is for new customers, existing customer price is similar aside from it being Â£149 instead, and all those boxes will be the 1TB version. Any other kind of TiVo box from VM will come at a later date once the product's lifecycle has at least developed into the consumer market, just like any other device.