ITV Digital

[steve-o]

If you have not heard yet ITV digital have recalled back all their set top boxs back or you can keep them if you pay them £40.
Bull****, You have all ready paid for your box so why should you pay a extra 40 quid?

 

[askia47]

never heard of it.

 

[steve-o]

I have not seen it in the papers but it is on the net

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/business.cfm?id=1375282002

 

[rjensen11]

I would. Read somewhere about that thing on the BBC. I'd pay $40 for a box! They're worth a lot more than that, I'd imagine, and you only rented it from ITV, you didn't BUY it...

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by steve-o
If you have not heard yet ITV digital have recalled back all their set top boxs back or you can keep them if you pay them £40.
Bull****, You have all ready paid for your box so why should you pay a extra 40 quid?

As rjensen says, you never actually own the box. When you paid your £100, that was for 12 months' subscription, with loan of the box. You will have signed a contract that states your agreement that ITV Digital (or onDIGITAL as they used to be) own the box and can reclaim it at any time.

The only quibble is where you had an outstanding subscription amount, where you had paid in advance and not received programming, in which case you are a creditor of ITV Digital. I have a friend who is pursuing this line of argument with them at the moment.

 

[1X83Z]

Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
As rjensen says, you never actually own the box. When you paid your £100, that was for 12 months' subscription, with loan of the box. You will have signed a contract that states your agreement that ITV Digital (or onDIGITAL as they used to be) own the box and can reclaim it at any time.

This is absurd. Why would anyone do this? Who's ever heard of your cable company owning your television set? Since it's their property, can't they break into your house at any moment and steal 'their property' back?

 

[pedrodaman]

ITV Digital no longer broadcast's now ..

So the boxes are now useless are they not ..

Im a bit confused here

 

[pedrodaman]

opps if i only checked the article first :blush:

That is an absolute shamble
It's not the consumers fault that ITV digital went under so why make them pay for some one else's mistakes .

What a joke

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by M5Power


This is absurd. Why would anyone do this? Who's ever heard of your cable company owning your television set? Since it's their property, can't they break into your house at any moment and steal 'their property' back? [/B]

Your cable company (certainly in this country) owns your set-top-box though, principally because the cable and satellite companies (and ITV Digital, now FreeView) want to hold onto the compression/encryption algorithms they use to broadcast the signal.

 

[milefile]

Dish Network seems more stable than many cable companies so I use them, and you buy the converter box. I had cable TV. It cost more for a lot less. And I had to return the box.