Virgin Media and TiVo sign new deal

[Harryn9000]

Now if virgin did offer it that would be a game changer broadband and TV in one box compare to separate internet and TV box now

[jb66]

Originally Posted by Harryn9000

Now if virgin did offer it that would be a game changer broadband and TV in one box compare to separate internet and TV box now

And VOIP, goodbye service technicians

[TAZMANUK]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2015/...ivo-extension/

Kudos for that benmcr

[Kushan]

Originally Posted by Harryn9000

Now if virgin did offer it that would be a game changer broadband and TV in one box compare to separate internet and TV box now

Really? Because that seems like a massive step back. Internet used to come through the STB and it was awful.

Originally Posted by jb66

And VOIP, goodbye service technicians

What makes you say that? Surely techs would still be required, not like having an STB magically fixes things?

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by Kushan

Really? Because that seems like a massive step back. Internet used to come through the STB and it was awful.

The internet also used to be 512kbps and it was awful.

Things have changed since 2001

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2015/...ivo-extension/

One benefit is that this keeps Tivo out of Vodafone's hands as it will be launching its IPTV service this year. Vodafone's cableco in Spain uses Tivo so Tivo would have been a solution for Vodafone UK to consider if this were possible, especially given the work done on it for the UK market. Unfortunately for Vodafone, it seems to have different TV boxes in each country which it operates in.
It's also important to note that LGI has just over a million Horizon customers throughout Europe whilst VM has just over 2.5m Tivo customers.
Think I prefer the look of the Tivo box over the Horizon box but the Horizon box seems smaller.

[greeninferno]

Originally Posted by Timbo7

Tivo rocks compared to what Sky offers its customers.......

the features are fantastic just very badly implemented

as heero states bloated software on an inadequate CPU , absolutely terrible user experience.

[jb66]

I dont think there is much difference between sky+ and tivo, both do similar stuff. Does Iplayer work on sky?

[Kushan]

My experience with both Sky HD and Tivo are largely similar. The interface is slow. I can't comment on layout and features too much because the glaring issue for me has always been how slow the interface is.

A raspberry Pi running XBMC/Kodi runs rings around both. A raspberry Pi 2 with Kodi is absolutely stellar.

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by Kushan

A raspberry Pi running XBMC/Kodi runs rings around both. A raspberry Pi 2 with Kodi is absolutely stellar.

No doubt a consequence of efficiently written code. The Pi's CPU isn't the fastest thing on the planet.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by jb66

I dont think there is much difference between sky+ and tivo, both do similar stuff. Does Iplayer work on sky?

Three massive differences for me, that are available on Tivo but not on Sky:

Whishlists

Three tuners

Auto resolving of recording clashes

Without those, for me, the Sky box just doesn't cut it.

[Kushan]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

No doubt a consequence of efficiently written code. The Pi's CPU isn't the fastest thing on the planet.

I have no idea what's inside the TiVo boxes, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was an even slower CPU.

[heero_yuy]

CPU: Broadcom BCM7413 400MHZ dual core 1100 Dhrystone MIPS vs. TiVo HD's 400 DMIPS
RAM: 512 MB
Encoder: Trident SAA7164 MPEG-2 encoder (for analog cable programs)

Linky

All that power wasted by bad coding.

[Kushan]

Sounds like it's fairly comparable to a gen1 Raspberry PI, then. It should definitely run better than it does, from the sounds of it.

[batchain]

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/product...78-728344.html