Re: Tivo

["domdevitto" <dom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not based on any secret or public knowledge, but I'd expect launch to
the unwashed masses 'real soon'.  If you're interested, I'll call VM proto
and get yourself on the waiting list, as it's bound to be a big rush when
it's available to all.

FYI, just about every other employee seems to be thoroughly 'dogfooding'
the Tivo at home, and it's got nothing but great reviews.

And no, I'd also expect the device to not be 'yours', and tinkering with
the innards to be a breach of the Telco act., and the people that deal with
this kind of stuff at Virgin are security super-geniuses.

Dom
--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Phillip Harris <phil@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > Special as in not very many available or special as in
temperamental?  Like
> > many here I was a very enthusiastic TiVo early adopter and
modifier but have
> > since moved to pure Sky+HD setup.
>
> I don't want to get my source into any trouble but Virgin had
committed to launching TiVo last year and did "launch" on the
date planned ...
>
> ...however, as I understand it, I don't think any paying customers
received a Virgin Tivo box! (The box itself is made by Cisco - Tivo are
just doing the middleware.) My understanding is that the launch was to an
almost insignificantly small number of "subscribers" (500 is the
number that I was told) who are subscribers because they do pay money to
Virgin for their service but oddly appear to (at the time of launch) all be
Virgin employees.
>
> There are a number of issues with it at the moment as far as I am
aware - but it's only software so it'll be easy to fix, right? ;-)
>
> > Hopefully the new Virgin TiVo is as open for modification as the
series 1
> > models were.
>
> *chuckle* Expect to be disappointed here!
>
> The Virgin TiVo boxes are looking like being as closed as the Sky
boxes are - nowadays no-one can run the risk of being cavalier with
content! Also the Virgin boxes can be fully interrogated from the head end
to ensure that they are doing nothing that they shouldn't (whether that is
running processes that they shouldn't or versions of code that they
shouldn't) and automatically reverted if they are.
>
> They're an appliance and not a hackers toy...
>
> Phil
>




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