Poll results: Virgin's Media's pre-registered offer for TiVo

Voting closed last night for the latest poll, where I wondered how many people would accept Virgin's TiVo offer for pre-registered customers. The initial offer wasn't greeted with much enthusiasm, mainly due to the requirement of paying the £40 install fee.

However, while the poll was running, news came through that the installation fee was being waived for any TiVo installations booked during April, following the launch of TiVo for pre-registered customers, so the final results are somewhat slewed.

Anyway, from 271 votes, 124 of you (45%) said yes, you would accept the offer, this is up from around 37% before news of the free April installation broke. 147 votes (55%) said no, you wouldn't accept the offer.

Poll Results: 1TB Hard Drive is most desired feature of Virgin Media's TiVo

Voting for the first poll on this blog ended on Thursday after 157 votes (apologies for the crappy display of the poll), and to recap the results:

Which feature of Virgin Media's TiVo are you looking forward to the most?

1TB Hard Drive for recording more content, especially HD	84 (53%)
Wishlists	18 (11%)
TiVo Suggestions	10 (6%)
Search & Browse for Content and related actors	8 (5%)
Rating shows and movies	0 (0%)
Extended EPG (including 7 day catch-up)	13 (8%)
TiVo Apps (including YouTube & other IPTV apps)	10 (6%)
Mobile & online recordings	6 (3%)
Better looking user interface	8 (5%)

That 1TB Hard Drive should be enough to contain 500 hours of standard definition recordings, or around 125 hours of high definition recordings - more if Virgin ever decide to use the more bandwidth efficient MPEG 4 codec for their HD channels instead of MPEG 2.

By comparsion, the 160Gb hard drive in the V+ HD boxes only has enough space for 80 hours of standard definition recordings, and a measly 20 hours of high definition recordings. With 17 HD channels on Virgin's XL pack, that really isn't enough.

Wishlists, TiVo Suggestions, extended EPG and TiVo apps were also highlighted as the most worthwhile features. As for rating shows and movies, I guess people will more interested in watching the content than rating it.