TiVo : General TiVo Discussion Part 3

[spiderplant]

Just to repeat...

No decision has been made on rolling out the software yet. The decision isn't made until the day before it actually happens. (What would be the point of a trial where you ignored some of the results?)

It will then take a few weeks for the software to get to everyone.

[Kushan]

Originally Posted by spiderplant

(What would be the point of a trial where you ignored some of the results?)

This is Virgin....

[Derekb108]

Originally Posted by Helix

Is everyone going to be updated on Tuesday or just the rollout starting. I don't think they have ever done a country wide rollout on one day before.

Remember its a new company, and they may want to try a national rollout so they can display Opera tv, Netflix (With user Profiles) HTML5 Applications before the change freeze. To do this all Tivos must have been upgraded to be able use it

[vincerooney]

Originally Posted by Derekb108

Remember its a new company, and they may want to try a national rollout so they can display Opera tv, Netflix (With user Profiles) HTML5 Applications before the change freeze. To do this all Tivos must have been upgraded to be able use it

Do we know anymore about opera tv

[Derekb108]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

Do we know anymore about opera tv

http://www.operasoftware.com/products/tv-store

if you want to try opera tv on you pc

http://www.operasoftware.com/products/tv-emulator

[vincerooney]

Originally Posted by Derekb108

http://www.operasoftware.com/products/tv-store

if you want to try opera tv on you pc

http://www.operasoftware.com/products/tv-emulator

Thank you v much!

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Derekb108

Remember its a new company, and they may want to try a national rollout so they can display Opera tv, Netflix (With user Profiles) HTML5 Applications before the change freeze. To do this all Tivos must have been upgraded to be able use it

On every software update, a proportion of boxes fail to update correctly. If they were all done at the same time, some people would be left without a working service for weeks until a technician could get to them. That's why rollouts are always done in a controlled way.

It's 6 or 7 weeks to the change freeze. That's enough time to do a controlled rollout and more.

[Gavin-D]

Is the update still due to begin its roll out tomorrow?

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Gavin-D

Is the update still due to begin its roll out tomorrow?

Yes and no. We're planning downloads for tomorrow, but will then pause to review how well it goes before deciding when to continue.

[Gavin-D]

Originally Posted by spiderplant

Yes and no. We're planning downloads for tomorrow, but will then pause to review how well it goes before deciding when to continue.

Guessing the areas this will happen in are not going to be announced like last time?

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Gavin-D

Guessing the areas this will happen in are not going to be announced like last time?

I prefer not to say until it's done in case there's a problem or late change of plan.
Anyway, today's lucky victims are:

Carlisle
Coventry
Dundee
Edinburgh
Exeter
Hemel
Lewisham
Warwick

[cj136uk]

In Edinburgh. Box on this morning and updated. Quick go before work, speedie. Some cutdown menu options, very good! Will test Iplayer and suggestions out later!

[roughbeast]

Coventry has been done. New look this morning. Looks better and clearer. I'll check functionality later.

[mike_gain]

Both my boxes in Dundee updated successfully. Not got time to play with the update this moring but first impressions are that I like the new font but I don't like the colour scheme. However as I am colour blind my opinion on colour is not to be trusted.

[Gavin-D]

Originally Posted by spiderplant

I prefer not to say until it's done in case there's a problem or late change of plan.
Anyway, today's lucky victims are:

Carlisle
Coventry
Dundee
Edinburgh
Exeter
Hemel
Lewisham
Warwick

Whats the betting teesside will be one of the last areas