Received a comment today from a TiVo video on youtubeTivo is coming back!
any1 know any more?
any1 know any more?"TiVo boss Tom Rogers said this afternoon that he was "hopeful" that TiVo would be launched in the UK "soon"!
So will TiVo produce a FreeView or Freesat based box? We can't see them getting into bed with Sky again after the last time. The Sky+ experience is shockingly bad, how is it in 2008 our Sky+ system isn't even CLOSE to the TiVo box we bought eight years previously?"
It's even worse than that for me. I have a VM point directly outside my building, but as I live in a small block of flats Virgin wont install into the block. On their web site the houses to both the left and right of the block are listed, but the block itself simply doesn't existSo near but yet so far
Theoretically I live in a cabled area yet I cant get cable. My house is in a small square behind a main road. The four roads that surround us ARE cabled. The cable is within 30 metres of my house yet they didnt come down my road so therefore I am unable to get it.
Optic fibre is about £50 a metre to install so you could connect it up yourself if your neighbour doesn't mindIt's even worse than that for me. I have a VM point directly outside my building, but as I live in a small block of flats Virgin wont install into the block. On their web site the houses to both the left and right of the block are listed, but the block itself simply doesn't exist
Mark.
Its not nearly as long as it is since the date on which Gary S last made a post in this forum.Oh yes it is!
I, too, would welcome a map, or preferably, a searchable (by postcode) database of areas served by Virgin Media's digital cable service.I could move to Virgin media!...i dont live in a Virgin Cable area...Is there anyway to find out where the closest virgin media area is...
I will try and find a complete VM coverage map if someone will let me have one[Edit] Carl, for some reason, I believe that the old Telewest Cable network was 'better' than the old NTL Cable network.
Aren't Virgin FTC (Fibre to Cabinet) rather than FTH (Fibre to Home) still? The final leg from the cabinet is still coax isn't it - and your neighbour would have coax? However I'm not sure how granular the connections are these days in terms of back channel and data connectivity. (You can obviously share the TV and VOD stuff on a single drop across multiple receivers - but I'm not sure how many broadband connections are supported by a single drop)Optic fibre is about £50 a metre to install so you could connect it up yourself if your neighbour doesn't mind
As far as I'm aware (it was definitely the case around 6/7 years ago and they have made no major investments in their network since then), VM are FTTK (Fibre to the Kerb) and definitely not FTTH (Fibre to the Home). I used to be a VM customer, when they were NTL, and we bought a home on a new estate. We were the first people to move in and at first we had blistering internet speeds (2MB in 2001) for those days. After about a year when the development was finished and all sold, the extra numbers dragged the speed down so much that it was almost pointless surfing in the early evening. I become a daytime and midnight surfer. At that time it was 1 fibre to the streetside, of which their was one per street. You just got lucky as to how many people signed up. The more affluent the area the slower your speedAren't Virgin FTC (Fibre to Cabinet) rather than FTH (Fibre to Home) still? The final leg from the cabinet is still coax isn't it - and your neighbour would have coax? However I'm not sure how granular the connections are these days in terms of back channel and data connectivity. (You can obviously share the TV and VOD stuff on a single drop across multiple receivers - but I'm not sure how many broadband connections are supported by a single drop)
No implications that I'm aware of for those Series1 boxes. The data is actually served from TiVo, not from Sky.so what will happen to those of us then that are still on the series 1 and happy with them.. Will sky still provide the tv data? are they not going to be able to once this deal comes into place?
Thanks TiVoPony. That's a relief!!No implications that I'm aware of for those Series1 boxes. The data is actually served from TiVo, not from Sky.
Pony
Bob,No implications that I'm aware of for those Series1 boxes. The data is actually served from TiVo, not from Sky.
Is ADSL2+ really feasible for broadcast HD distribution? BBC HD has recently dropped from 16Mbs to 9.7Mbs (with new cutting-edge H264 encoders - though there have been complaints about a drop in picture quality)Of couse may be one day the new Virgin Tivo will be available throughout the UK if Virgin also manage to figure out a way to ever provide their television service nationwide in all those areas without Virgin Cable access over the main BT Wholesale owned ADSL2+ broadband network. However as I understand it quite a lot more upgrading of the backbone of that network is needed before it can properly cope with widespread live streaming of HD television programs..........
So the next new encoder standard will no doubt drop the required connection speed to 5.5Mbps and then Bob's Your Uncle............BBC HD has recently dropped from 16Mbs to 9.7Mbs (with new cutting-edge H264 encoders - though there have been complaints about a drop in picture quality)
While technically Virgin may have improved the service; have they upped the previously (NTL) dire levels of customer service? I vowed never, ever to touch cable again after I ditched NTL's phone service. I may be persuaded to change my mind.<snip> only after the Virgin rebrand. I only moved to their BB last year and it is always blistering fast. I do know that they to update UBR when areas have constant high utilisation but it is a long process.
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