Tivo to return to UK in 2010

Good News

This is indeed good news.

TiVo was, is and will almost always be the leader in terms of interface and function.

Having moved to Virgin away from TiVo+Sky... I still hate the clunky, messy and confusing Virgin interface.

Happy days.

Has to be an improvement

Virgin Media's current PVR box (or its UI, at least) sucks like a hoover; 5 or so button presses to get to the recorded program list, no "resume playback" feature if you stop part way through a program, loses all configuration settings if you do any sort of reset at all... Horrid, horrid, horrid.

I for one welcome our new Tivo overlords.

Dammit!

I've been intending to dump Virgin, but I loved my Tivo to bits, and if it's coming back then I _need_ one...

YES!!

Still use my original TiVo over Sky+ despite it only being single tuner as it's still unmatched in ease of use and family friendliness.

I can move to HD much happier knowing we can get a newer version of TiVo soon.

Sky+ FTW

It'll take a hell of a good system to beat Sky+ for ease of use. I was originally sceptical of our family's need for it but we couldn't go back to ordinary telly now. "It just works".

Super Excited that TiVo are back in the UK

Seriously. I LOVE TiVO. No other PVR comes close.

Shame it's just on Virgin. PLEASE, TIVO, do a freeview box or something. I will pay thorugh the nose for one. Tivo saves me time, which is worth a lot.

Bring it back...

Hi,

If only TiVo could come back in a dual HD tuner for Sky..... MY serie 1 TiVo was sooooo much better and stable that my Sky HD box.

Not in a Virgin area (and not kind on Virgin anyway) I'll probably be stuck with my Sky HD for the time being, can't really see Sky opening the market to any other vendor, even TiVo...

Woo hoo from me too

Tivo is still the best system going - everyone I know who was lucky enough to get one in the UK has hung onto it in preference to Sky+ / V+ (for anyone who says Sky+ will take some beating have you actually used any other systems?)

-

@ Ian K

"Virgin Media's current PVR box (or its UI, at least) sucks like a hoover; 5 or so button presses to get to the recorded program list, no "resume playback" feature if you stop part way through a program, loses all configuration settings if you do any sort of reset at all... Horrid, horrid, horrid."

I have to say I don't get any of that. From memory V+ -> Select -> Select gets to recorded programmes by date, there's options to start from the beginning, last viewed time or any arbitrary point in the programme and the couple of resets I have done haven't wiped any setting that I noticed.

What box do you have?

Hooray

I too am still using my series 1 Tivo. I wouldn't say it's going strong as it occasionally gets a little upset/confused but I have really been dreading the day it dies for good.

Just needs to keep going a little longer now!

VM Picture quality

Picture quality is terrible on Virgin. Compared to Freesat or even freeview, both SD and HD channels bear no comparison.

Without doubt the worst quality picture of any provider I've ever seen.

I can't bear to watch it for more than 5 minutes, god knows why anyone would record it.

Avoid, avoid

So that article nicely outlines why you should avoid the new Tivo then - tie ins with Virgin Media, and Google Snooping on your viewing habits.

finally!!

It had been runmoured for ages that Humax would pull their finger out and do a UK PVR Freeview TIVO but never came about did it.

Also on another note other than the core what part of virgins tv/bb network is fibre exactly as the cabs only do fibre for the phone service not tv/bb and virgins box's suck like a kirby on steroids on a windy day!

I miss my old series1 and had to plump for sucky Sky+ and now skyhd.

Sky actually bought out the UK arm many moons ago hoping that they could nick bits of the tv service for their own use in the uk but then refused to pay tivo international the rights to use said software so were lumbered with the UK userbase and keeping it going as most people had sense and bought lifetime subs instead of monthly!

Tivo F up again...

Why do Tivo insist on partnering with specific broadcasters? Do they not understand the have a fantastic platform and there are people in the UK who want it?

First time round they sign a distribution agreememnt with news corp, who royally screw them by bringing out sky+

now they jump into bed with a cable company? what about all us people who don't have cable in our area. I wouldn't use them anyway, Virgin sucks!

If a company was to bring out a Freesat / Freeview HD DVR equivalent box that has a Tivo interface then I'd buy it. Build it and they shall come!

Too late AGAIN though I guess Tivo - your website says mutually exclusive, so I'm going to stick to Sky+

Very, VERY

glad to hear this. I had hoped TiVo would do a DVB-T version but, since I can actually get Virgin, I'll look forward to this instead. I'm hoping too that the TiVo box will mean that Virgin will be moving to MPEG4 compression at the same time opening up the possibility of a lot more HD channels too.

Amazing

This is about 10 kinds of awesome. Or maybe 12. I haven't decided yet.