Paul informed us in the pub last night that TiVo PVRs are going for around 300 GBP on eBay. Prior to being discontinued in this country, they were being sold at the knock-down price of 100 GBP on the high-street. Contrary to the received wisdom in old-media circles, the market illustrates the demand not being supplied…?
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Petafloptimism 
You do have to take into account that the expensive ones have “lifetime service” attached to them, which cost the owner £200 on top of the cost of the machine.
Not so much of a bargain now!
rOD.
well, the lifetime service was for the listings information – they’ll be fine until that gets switched off…
Although TiVo Uk are without product for now, its unlikely the service will be turned off. I think the total numbers of uk boxes was 40K, so lets say 75% are still in use, half of those plumped for the lifetime option which leaves 15,000 people paying UKP 10 a month.
Thats UKP 150K a month in revenue for a dial up info service, the data for which is bought in from Tribune in the US anyway.
Remember, it’s SKY who run tivo’s service centre here in the UK, so i find it hard to believe they would shut it down – there’s money to be made. Damn, if they did even I’d look into running it!
Money for old rope!
I’ve noticed that high end DVD-R machines are now coming with inbuilt Tivo – which is exactly what we’ve been waiting for. Record onto hard disc, then dump onto DVD if necessary.
That ws Tivo’s trouble – a good technology that needed to be part of something else.
no no no.
Nothing in the UK is coming with built in TiVo and this is half of the problem.
TiVo has reached – within months of the product being available – the same position in the psyche of buyers as Hoover – the brand is the market sector.
TiVo is a very clever piece of software laid ontop of some pretty average hardware – the ability to record TV programmes and time shift them is not TiVo – it’s PVR. TiVo is the Thumbs up and Thumbs down suggestion recording life altering software that accompanies TiVo branded boxes.
Just came across the landspeeder and would
love to see some photos and specs on it.
Thanks.