About bleeding time!
Yes, the fantastic news all original TiVo UK users have been waiting for. TiVo are coming back to Blighty!
VirginMedia have made the wisest decision ever to team up with TiVo to produce their next generation of cable set-top-boxes with the first units due to appear in 2010.
Sky+ will now get the stiff competition it’s been crying out for. I’d like to think this will spur Sky on to implement viewer ratings, recommendations and intelligent schedule-clash resolution features in the next releases of Sky+ and Sky+HD.
But I doubt it.
Instead Sky will probably just try and market VirginMedia and TiVo’s tie-up to death. The new Virgin+TiVo box won’t be cheap, so Sky will likely start giving Sky+HD boxes away for free with 6 months free HD viewing.
But then again, TiVo have just published their results in the US, they’re not signing up many new customers and are losing lots of existing subscribers.
Could we see NDS swooping in to snap-up TiVo at a bargain price?
Let’s see…
