System Message 7/4/11 - Virgin Media TV, powered by TiVo, is here.

And all you need to join in the fun is a brand new TiVo box and Virgin Media XL TV

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That statement is of course is not correct, you also need to live in a VirginMedia fibre networked area and not on a private road.

Automan.

Virgin_sales_bod said:

Get yours, at a very
special price, from virginmedia.com/tivoupgrade now.

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Go on, I'll bite... how much is the 'very special price' compared with what the general public will be paying ?

I might even consider it

spitfires said:

Shall we run a book on what the last one on 1st June will be? I'll go with "So long and thanks for all the fish, suckers"

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I'm hoping for a Dossa and Joe forced recording of the national anthem followed by a white dot like the old days of close down.

Nimbus said:

Go on, I'll bite... how much is the 'very special price' compared with what the general public will be paying ?

I might even consider it

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£149 up front at this stage and you have to sign up for the XL tv channel package. I have taken the plunge (with HD) and I am happy, especially as I have already had it recording 3 programmes simultaneously on a Thursday evening.

I am still hopeful that I can run my series 1 after 1st June if the alternative EPG happens -AND I can access it given that my series 1 is not connected to the internet

All your tuners are belong: to US

Anyone's S1 account status changed?

Mine still says 5:Lifetime Service

Nope, both still lifetime service


Alek

I wonder if that would count as an advertisement, or promotional message, and thus come under the ASA's remit? The lack of a "in cabled areas only" is a significant limitation that I think should be mentioned.

http://www.asa.org.uk/Complaints/How-to-complain/Online-Form/Step1.aspx

unless the regs have changed, ASA's remit only covers "public" advertising - this isn't public (viz. you already have a "relationship" with the company and therefore they can spout any bollos they like).

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Whatever these are possibly the most bastard annoying spam messages that I receive.

So as this is the third time I'm off to buy 3 lottery tickets (next time it'll be 4 then 5 etc) if (and lets be honest it's a whopping big IF) I win big time then TiVo and Virgin get pursued with injunctions etc

I know the odds are overwhelmingly in their favour but each time they p*ss me off those odds get just a little bit more on my side.

My message to TiVo: we know about the Virgin deal, now back the truck up

Steve_K said:

My message to TiVo: we know about the Virgin deal, now back the truck up

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can I amend that to ' We know about the Virgin deal that others may be able to get, whilst we on this road cannot, and thank you again Tivo for killing a service we could actually receive and replacing it with the one we can't actually get.