Amazon Prime in the works for VirginMedia

It has been widely rumored that a prime app was in beta... I suspect (hope) we will see it on retail boxes by mid year.

Anyone want to take odds?

 

I question the strategy of integrating streaming apps with Tivo. I think a certain percentage of customers will find that their viewing needs can be completely satisfied by streaming and ditch Tivo altogether, since Tivo is too expensive to use for streaming exclusively. Tivo was one of the first set top boxes to offer Netflix streaming and they still lost millions of customers.

 

TiVo said the same thing during interviews around the Roamio launch. The decision is in Amazon's hands.

 

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The market for Roamio owners are not really the cord cutting type. Perhaps in the future. But the high cost of the Roamio (especially the Pro/Plus) pretty much guarantees those users are reliant on cable. Plus, who is to say TiVo will rely on cable companies in the future. It is in their best interest to provide a great streaming services platform.

 

It's not so much the price, but the lack of an OTA tuner in the Plus and Pro models that 100% guarantees that.