29-01-2016, 13:38
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Re: Sky Q and VM answer????
I will have SkyQ fitted as soon as I can, I don't think you can compare TiVo and SkyQ.
It's like VM TiVo is Nokia 100 and SkyQ is latest smart phone.
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29-01-2016, 13:42
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Re: Sky Q and VM answer????
Wow that's quite a statement to make.....
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29-01-2016, 13:57
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Re: Sky Q and VM answer????
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Originally Posted by tweedle
I will have SkyQ fitted as soon as I can, I don't think you can compare TiVo and SkyQ.
It's like VM TiVo is Nokia 100 and SkyQ is latest smart phone.
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So you're comparing a five year old box with one that's due launch in 4 weeks?
I'm guess in VM will be bringing out a new box soon.
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29-01-2016, 14:10
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Re: Sky Q and VM answer????
Yes l noticed that in the link that MM posted.
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29-01-2016, 15:21
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Re: Sky Q and VM answer????
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Originally Posted by Joedm45
I'm glad I renewed my VM contract recently, really happy with the deal I got so I'll take another look in 12 months time. Hopefully VM will have something new too by then.
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I'd like to see proper multiroom/multi device support. Something a little better than the half arsed attempt VM have made at it so far..
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29-01-2016, 15:32
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Re: Sky Q and VM answer????
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
I'm not sure that's completely fair.
The current TiVo box hardware was made available to customers in December 2010 so would have been in development for a period of time before that (the partnership was announced in November 2009).
So some of the services you're comparing VM's TiVo to now didn't exist then, and even where some did, they're no longer supported (try getting iPlayer, Netflix or other streaming services on Smart TVs and consumer AV kit from 2009/2010)
I'm sure Virgin Media could have well created more powerful hardware at the time, but it would have meant charging more for it. And we all know how that would have gone down.
I do completely appreciate that 6 years is a long time in regards to hardware, but you only have to look at the responses that do happen when Virgin change their broadband kit, or recently where they're doing SciAt V+ swap to see that no matter which way around it goes, there is always someone that doesn't want to change, or is unhappy that they can't change.
I'm not denying that the existing TiVo hardware is likely due for some form of replacement, but you only have to look at the fact that most of what Sky Q does, TiVo already does to see that it's not that far behind the cure.
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Sorry, Ben, I didn't mean to be unfair. The Tivo box is excellent in every way as far as I am concerned, the only problem being with the speed.
I do appreciate that developments in this area are coming thick and fast, but the addition of streaming services must surely have been anticipated back in 2009, even if the precise services may not have been known at the time.
I do also understand that price is an issue, but I hope the new box has sufficient processor capacity to deal with developments in this area that can be reasonably foreseen.
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29-01-2016, 17:09
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Re: Sky Q and VM answer????
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
but the addition of streaming services must surely have been anticipated back in 2009, even if the precise services may not have been known at the time.
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The were, hence Cindy Rose's infamous 'Hundreds of apps' statement 
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29-01-2016, 17:31
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Re: Sky Q and VM answer????
Well l don't we have even got 40 of them and that's 6 years later.
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29-01-2016, 21:09
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Re: Sky Q and VM answer????
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Originally Posted by denphone
Well l don't we have even got 40 of them and that's 6 years later.
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Which is what makes her statement 'infamous' 
Still, the intentions were there!
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30-01-2016, 03:42
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Re: Sky Q and VM answer????
Intention is one thing as we know but actual deliverance is another.
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30-01-2016, 08:52
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Re: Sky Q and VM answer????
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Originally Posted by Stuart
I'd like to see proper multiroom/multi device support. Something a little better than the half arsed attempt VM have made at it so far..
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Completely agree, as great as it was to be the first to do it, they did make a pigs ear of it.
It will be interesting to see if Sky Q has any limitations for multiroom streaming. The marketing implies not but we'll see from the real world reviews when they start installations.
I'm going to assume all recordings can be watched on any box, if this is indeed the case then VM need to get negotiating with those channel providers to keep up
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30-01-2016, 18:55
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Re: Sky Q and VM answer????
The HDMI IN slot on the new SkyQ box has certainly tweaked my interest. If it's for, what I think its for, I may consider moving back to Rupert's warm embrace.
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30-01-2016, 20:51
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#73
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Re: Sky Q and VM answer????
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Originally Posted by Horizon
The HDMI IN slot on the new SkyQ box has certainly tweaked my interest. If it's for, what I think its for, I may consider moving back to Rupert's warm embrace.
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What do you think it's for? Games console pass through? Google play? It can be for any HDMI output device. HDMI in is nothing new.
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31-01-2016, 05:11
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Re: Sky Q and VM answer????
Kodi? 
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31-01-2016, 07:00
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Re: Sky Q and VM answer????
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Kodi? |
Now that would be interesting
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