TiVo : Tivo rip off TV M TV L customers

Hi i noticed that virgin are launching the Tivo 500gig box for TV M & TV L customers £50 installation box which is good but £8 sub on top of your TV price is to expensive if they want a biger customer take up of Tivo people won't pay £8 they are trying to get as much money out of people as they can in these hard times

[denphone]

Originally Posted by tridens

Hi i noticed that virgin are launching the Tivo 500gig box for TV M & TV L customers £50 installation box which is good but £8 sub on top of your TV price is to expensive if they want a biger customer take up of Tivo people won't pay £8 they are trying to get as much money out of people as they can in these hard times

Then upgrade to the XL package as you will get far more for your money.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by tridens

Hi i noticed that virgin are launching the Tivo 500gig box for TV M & TV L customers £50 installation box which is good but £8 sub on top of your TV price is to expensive if they want a biger customer take up of Tivo people won't pay £8 they are trying to get as much money out of people as they can in these hard times

Personally I agree , the problem is with XL and VIP customers paying £3.00 a month its logical to think it would cost more on lower packs. There is no way they will get 100% of people on TIVO in 2-3 years like Cindy Rose stated without some free option.

[denphone]

l am sure 2 or 3 years down the track Virgin will probably get rid of the 3.00 monthly fee.

[scotmac]

Originally Posted by tridens

Hi i noticed that virgin are launching the Tivo 500gig box for TV M & TV L customers £50 installation box which is good but £8 sub on top of your TV price is to expensive if they want a biger customer take up of Tivo people won't pay £8 they are trying to get as much money out of people as they can in these hard times

I was under the impression that the Tivo charge ie.the £3 and £8 was a charge set by TiVo and not Vm, someone with more information will confirm this or not.

[jb66]

Actually you can't get TiVo on m, only m+. If you want new technology it comes at a price!

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It's £5 'pvr' fee and £3 TiVo fee, if it wasn't priced like that the v+ would be more expensive than tivo

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by jb66

Actually you can't get TiVo on m, only m+. If you want new technology it comes at a price!

Yes you are correct , but at them prices the 100% figure won't happen for sometime.

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Yes you are correct , but at them prices the 100% figure won't happen for sometime.

It has been said that the V HD will run tivo software though which isn't of course a pvr and presumably wouldn't attract a £3/month charge nor the £5/mth pvr charge. Maybe those that don't want to pay extra would end up with a box like that. I would imagine mainly they want to convert everybody over to MPEG4 and the sooner the better.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by ahardie

It has been said that the V HD will run tivo software though which isn't of course a pvr and presumably wouldn't attract a £3/month charge nor the £5/mth pvr charge. Maybe those that don't want to pay extra would end up with a box like that. I would imagine mainly they want to convert everybody over to MPEG4 and the sooner the better.

Yep spot on , I can see that happening as I said earlier there needs to be a free option to get 100% TIVO customer base.

[jb66]

I can see the samsung 2110 being in circulation for the next 7 years. There are still pace 1000s out there

Originally Posted by jb66

I can see the samsung 2110 being in circulation for the next 7 years. There are still pace 1000s out there

You could well be right. VM's finances are improving though so perhaps their intention is to make a big investment in bringing customer hardware up to date. Would be good if that were to happen but who knows what their plan is.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by jb66

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It's £5 'pvr' fee and £3 TiVo fee, if it wasn't priced like that the v+ would be more expensive than tivo

That's how I understand it; people on M+ and L have to pay £5 anyway to get recording functionality on a V+ box, and the £3 is the Tivo charge, so the £8 for M+ and L is not a rip off, but standard pricing.

Originally Posted by denphone

l am sure 2 or 3 years down the track Virgin will probably get rid of the 3.00 monthly fee.

Not sure they will -i read somewhere this goes straight to Tivo

[kit1cat]

Originally Posted by denphone

l am sure 2 or 3 years down the track Virgin will probably get rid of the 3.00 monthly fee.

Knowing Virgin, the only way they will get rid of the £3 fee is by increasing it. I've had 5 price rises on my xl tv package in just over 12 months, ok the vat increase was not virgins fault.

Five price rises? Sounds a bit unfair.

I am on XL, and I have had 2 Price rises in the last 12 months (VAT and a £1 increase in April 2011) - what other increases have they put on you?