The future of television

[OLD BOY]

Another sign of the times.

https://www.advanced-television.com/...ts-dvr-market/

Goodbye, TiVo, old friend.

[EXTRACT]

TiVo Corporation is quitting its consumer Digital Video Recorder (DVR) market. At its peak there were millions of TiVo recorders in the market with users praising its time-shifting technology. Launched in 1999 the technology was capable of skipping ads and pausing live transmissions, technology which is now commonplace but at the time was revolutionary.

More recent devices have been available with 4K storage capability. However, streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and their competitors make pausing, rewinding and other functionality commonplace.

I had a Tivo back in the early 2000's, but they stopped doing them.
I think the subscriptions carried on for a few years, but by then we had a Sky box so stopped paying for it.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Another sign of the times.

https://www.advanced-television.com/...ts-dvr-market/

Goodbye, TiVo, old friend.

[EXTRACT]

TiVo Corporation is quitting its consumer Digital Video Recorder (DVR) market. At its peak there were millions of TiVo recorders in the market with users praising its time-shifting technology. Launched in 1999 the technology was capable of skipping ads and pausing live transmissions, technology which is now commonplace but at the time was revolutionary.

More recent devices have been available with 4K storage capability. However, streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and their competitors make pausing, rewinding and other functionality commonplace.

Don't worry OB, this is this answer at a cost of £0 per month.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...v-service.html

It will kill Sky and VMs ambitions to prevent the riff raff from fast forwarding through ads.

Recording is the future (for the less brain washed)
.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Mr K

Don't worry OB, this is this answer at a cost of £0 per month.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...v-service.html

It will kill Sky and VMs ambitions to prevent the riff raff from fast forwarding through ads.

Recording is the future (for the less brain washed)
.

I'll be buying this once Virgin & Sky stop doing boxes that can record. I wonder if it can record IPTV?

[Horizon]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Another sign of the times.

https://www.advanced-television.com/...ts-dvr-market/

Goodbye, TiVo, old friend.

[EXTRACT]

TiVo Corporation is quitting its consumer Digital Video Recorder (DVR) market. At its peak there were millions of TiVo recorders in the market with users praising its time-shifting technology. Launched in 1999 the technology was capable of skipping ads and pausing live transmissions, technology which is now commonplace but at the time was revolutionary.

More recent devices have been available with 4K storage capability. However, streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and their competitors make pausing, rewinding and other functionality commonplace.

News to me, thanks OB.

Tivo has a massive presence now in the "smart" tv market, so I wonder if it's just the case of concentrating on that, or whether they plan to literally shut everything down??

[Hom3r]

Come March 26, I will cancel my VM TV, keeping the BB and phone (if its cheaper)


Prime & Netflix will keep me happy

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Hom3r

Come March 26, I will cancel my VM TV, keeping the BB and phone (if its cheaper)


Prime & Netflix will keep me happy

It's what a lot of people are doing now. What do Virgin do in response? Treat customers with contempt and impose inflation busting price increases.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

It's what a lot of people are doing now. What do Virgin do in response? Treat customers with contempt and impose inflation busting price increases.

My bill came down last time and they threw the cinema channels in free of charge. I am bemused to keep reading reports on here of Virgin’s ‘rip off’ policies and ‘poor customer services’. Sky is more expensive and frankly they have their fair share of problems. Every company has its good and bad points, but Virgin has been good to me over the years. The only bad time I’ve been concerned about with cable TV was ComTel, I was glad to see the back of them.

If you really want to save money with Virgin, get Virgin Flex. You can get it for peanuts and for a bit extra, you can access Sky and of course the popular streamers of your choice.

If you are happy to break with linear TV altogether (it’s coming sooner or later anyway), just pay for an Apple or Amazon Fire stick or similar and just pay for the streamers of your choice.