General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 2

[denphone]

Originally Posted by johnathome

How much was it to upgrade to the current Tivo when it came out?

£150 seems to ring a bell.

l think it was a bit cheaper then that for existing customers.

[Media Boy UK]

That DNP is about TiVo that all we can post as of September 4th.

[mike_gain]

Originally Posted by theone2k10

November.

A change in November is more likely to be a software update than a new box.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by denphone

Yes hopefully we will hear something soon about a new TiVo dodgem as there have been widespread rumours for a while about it.

Originally Posted by theone2k10

November.

Originally Posted by Media Boy

News to us.

Another battle of the sources.
But what did you mean by "dodgem", Den. Design?

[johnathome]

Originally Posted by denphone

l think it was a bit cheaper then that for existing customers.

I've just looked at the Tivo thread from DS and this post from 2011, Tivo was released in 2010

I think the new Tivo box which is smaller and a lot cheaper would be better value anyway. Who the heck wants to pay £149 for a box with a hard drive which can contain hundreds of hours of space? where would anyone get the time to watch all the recorded material anyway?

The new box sounds more realistic and at £50 isn't too bad. As long as it has an ethernet socket for Home Networking though, it will be a good buy.

LOL at the BiB

[mike_gain]

Originally Posted by johnathome

I've just looked at the Tivo thread from DS and this post from 2011, Tivo was released in 2010



LOL at the BiB

Pretty sure it was still being tested in 2010 and wasn't made available to existing customers until 2011.

Fairly sure I paid £100 to upgrade in march/April 2011 (an offer that was only made to existing customers).

[passingbat]

Initially Tivo cost £150. Later VM reduced it to £99. After a lot of complaints from people who had taken it from launch and paid £150, VM refunded them £50 per Tivo.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by johnathome

I've just looked at the Tivo thread from DS and this post from 2011, Tivo was released in 2010



LOL at the BiB

Yes, I laughed at that! But I confess to struggling to keep my recordings within the 500 hours limit!

[mike_gain]

Originally Posted by passingbat

Initially Tivo cost £150. Later VM reduced it to £99. After a lot of complaints from people who had taken it from launch and paid £150, VM refunded them £50 per Tivo.

yes I remember the uproar at the time. I wasn't too bothered but was happy to take my £50. Just had it in my head I had to shell out £100 up front.

[johnathome]

Originally Posted by mike_gain

Pretty sure it was still being tested in 2010 and wasn't made available to existing customers until 2011.

Fairly sure I paid £100 to upgrade in march/April 2011 (an offer that was only made to existing customers).

I can't remember and took the info from here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiVo#United_Kingdom

It does say VM released it in DEC 2010 which i guess would make strategic sense, enabling people to get one and record all the repeats over christmas

Catchup services were in their infancy back then and i don't think all the terrestrial channels had them?

One of the links from that Wiki page says this, from DS

Any customers wanting to get the TiVo service will need to pay £199 (plus a £40 installation charge), along with a £26.50 monthly subscription for the XL package when bundled with a Virgin phone line, or £32.50 without.

They must have decided it was too much?

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Another battle of the sources.
But what did you mean by "dodgem", Den. Design?

Nah lol i'm just guessing at November.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Yes we did see post 849.

Talking about YourTV Ofcom has today given an new DTT channel licence to: YourTV and YourTV +1.

---------- Post added at 10:47 ---------- Previous post was at 10:21 ----------

No YourTV licence for Cable and Sky has been seen yet.

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/radio...ndsat-main.htm

It would be a strange decision to leave YourTV off Sky considering Mr Murdoch has an involvement in both.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by johnathome

I can't remember and took the info from here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiVo#United_Kingdom

It does say VM released it in DEC 2010 which i guess would make strategic sense, enabling people to get one and record all the repeats over christmas

Catchup services were in their infancy back then and i don't think all the terrestrial channels had them?

One of the links from that Wiki page says this, from DS



They must have decided it was too much?

If I remember correctly, the Tivo's released in December 2010 went to VM employees only. Then in early 2011, selected customers were given a Tivo to trial, before the official release later in 2011 (April?). And initially, after the official release, only existing VM customers could get one. New customers signing up had to wait a while for a Tivo.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by theone2k10

Nah lol i'm just guessing at November.

All you have to say to yourself its coming soon.

[johnathome]

Originally Posted by passingbat

If I remember correctly, the Tivo's released in December 2010 went to VM employees only. Then in early 2011, selected customers were given a Tivo to trial, before the official release later in 2011 (April?). And initially, after the official release, only existing VM customers could get one. New customers signing up had to wait a while for a Tivo.

As i said i can't remember but it all depends on the accuracy of the wiki page. On there it says the 3rd tuner was activated, i remember a software update, rolling out from the 17th march 2011.