RE: Sky+ vs Tivo (was A couple of quick cabling questions)

["Timothy Morris" <timothy.morris@xxxxxxx>]

The premium is a tenner a month. In fact you have to pay the tenner to turn
the recording feature on. Once the record two channels at once feature
comes, it will give it the edge. ATM though I think it will still only be
an
enthusiast product. Your man in the street will find it difficult to
understand it!

On the PDC thing. That would be fine if all of the channels pressed the
button (if that's what they do), I've heard that at times it can be delayed
by hours!

Tim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kennwatt@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 October 2001 14:05
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Sky+ vs Tivo (was A couple of quick cabling
> questions)
>
>
> Tim,
>
> AFAIK and can glean from various reviews the two things that let's
Tivo
> down against Sky+ is the obvious PDC control that is badly needed on
> Tivo, I admit and, the ability to receive two Sky channels, one for
> recording and one for watching. However Sky are supposed to be
charging
> a premium for that service and, knowing Sky, it won't be cheap as it
> involves the facility to receive, basically, two signals from the
Astra
> satellite.
>
> On the other hand Sky+ lacks the intuitive abilities of Tivo and the
> understandable menus.
>
> I'll reserve judgement until I see Sky+ though, which at the moment
> looks to be a ways off. From what I hear the uptake on it has been
worse
> that Tivo!
>
> K.
>
>