TiVo : General TiVo Discussion Part 2

[BenMcr]

Don't know if this has been mentioned, but Facebook and Picasa are now showing at http://www.virginmedia.com/mytivoapps/

[fixerman]

Originally Posted by HDFootyMan

Their here!

Good luck! I look forward to your updates.

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Originally Posted by BenMcr

Don't know if this has been mentioned, but Facebook and Picasa are now showing at http://www.virginmedia.com/mytivoapps/

I've just set them up. I hope they are better than some of the hi tech extras we are supposed to have. A lot of these are simply broken!

[scrooge]

Originally Posted by HDFootyMan

VM installer just told me that they were expecting 2,000 customers to pre-register, "we actually got 150,000!"

65,000 pre-reg according to this...

http://www.whathifi.com/news/virgin-...r-numbers-fall

" the number of new customers signing up to Virgin Media's TV service fell by more than 70% year-on-year – to just 10,100."

interesting...I wonder if they'll make any good retention deals when I ring to cancel

[fixerman]

Originally Posted by scrooge

65,000 pre-reg according to this...

http://www.whathifi.com/news/virgin-...r-numbers-fall

" the number of new customers signing up to Virgin Media's TV service fell by more than 70% year-on-year – to just 10,100."

interesting...I wonder if they'll make any good retention deals when I ring to cancel

If they don't sort out all these tivo problems they will loose a lot more.

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by fixerman

If they don't sort out all these tivo problems they will loose a lot more.

Which TiVo problems?

[Perfect Choice]

Tivo niggles yes, but overall impression is that it is a very impressive box

The article is referring to new customer growth not churn (cannot access directly as at work so apologies if there is other text I don't know about). It is a lower figure than I would expect but Tivo is a much greater incentive to go with VM for control of your TV so expect improved figures for 2011.

[devilincarnate]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Which TiVo problems?

It does almost everything but it still will not make me a cuppa in the morning

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by mkdr25

the slightly annoying thing about remote record (working from PC but not mobile for me) is that without global padding, I can't set a pad, so if I'm on holiday and want to record something I know will probably run over, I'm out of luck.

Set the following programme to record as well?

[TMLeafs]

Originally Posted by dazed&confused

Still waiting.........

No phone call
No flowers
No chocolates

The same

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by scrooge

65,000 pre-reg according to this...

http://www.whathifi.com/news/virgin-...r-numbers-fall

" the number of new customers signing up to Virgin Media's TV service fell by more than 70% year-on-year – to just 10,100."

interesting...I wonder if they'll make any good retention deals when I ring to cancel

Think its more down to coming soon regarding new channels,People are noticing sky upping channels whilst vm decreasing

[Perfect Choice]

Originally Posted by devilincarnate

It does almost everything but it still will not make me a cuppa in the morning

How about an alarm clock as well then, probably will appear as an application at some stage!!!!!

[mkdr25]

Originally Posted by spiderplant

Set the following programme to record as well?

yes as a temp solution, but I don't see why any future app for iphone or android shouldn't being able to change settings like padding and add thumbs up etc...

[Cozzy]

I think I must be in a minority of 1 ... I dont think shelling out £149-£249 on a new product that there should be ANY niggles at all and if there are niggles/faults then the company should acknowledge and partial refund until all niggles/faults are corrected.

I have no idea why customers are prepared to accept second best just because its a 'new product' ... they (TiVo) still after 10 years cant get the EPG error free and bugs from that S1 era still exist from the reading I have done.

I expect i will get hung drawn and quartered for daring to say the above but honestly in this day and age there is no excuse for poor quality service or product quality of a big release product that TiVo aspires to be. If it was Apple or Microsoft there would be rants and raves all over about shoddy workmanship and yet you accept it from VM .. the mind boggles

I will now bow out of any further TiVo decussion as i have no intention of having one until there is no choice.

[Perfect Choice]

Originally Posted by howardmicks

Think its more down to coming soon regarding new channels,People are noticing sky upping channels whilst vm decreasing

Agreed, not expecting VM to be battling it out with Sky to have the most channels but there is a danger of the gap becoming too large. Channels like ITV2,3,4 really should have HD options as a base service now, they're hardly new channels these days!

While what Tivo can do may be great, if it cannot access content or have content available in HD format, it will still be seen as the weaker box to Sky+. If VM can access new/HD content via the Internet link rather than signing up to channels then that could be another approach but expect that potential for specialist or premium content, not basic stuff like ITV2,3,4 just as an example.

[dazed&confused]

TIVo man he arrive!!!
started 11:50 am
will keep you updated