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babis3g 28-02-2013 14:34

Re: US Cable Giant Liberty Global buys Virgin Media
 
Have seen something and in here
http://www.cnssecuritieslaw.com/2013/02/14/756.htm

joglynne 28-02-2013 14:42

Re: US Cable Giant Liberty Global buys Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by babis3g (Post 35542546)

Don't you just love legal jargon. Defendants have "exacerbated their breaches of fiduciary duty" I really must try to work that phrase into a conversation some time soon. :D

Sirius 28-02-2013 15:45

Re: US Cable Giant Liberty Global buys Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by babis3g (Post 35542546)

Oh my :shocked:

babis3g 28-02-2013 16:26

Re: US Cable Giant Liberty Global buys Virgin Media
 
i don't really want to involve in this kind of businnes (to much changes around the world in general) ... it was my first post in this thread ... the previous poster mentioned about court and just posted a link from solicitor's web

joglynne 06-03-2013 13:21

Re: US Cable Giant Liberty Global buys Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Virgin Media to Embrace Online Rivals After Liberty Takeover
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...y-liberty.html

Mick Fisher 06-03-2013 14:22

Re: US Cable Giant Liberty Global buys Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by joglynne (Post 35544918)

Welcome to the buffering fest :LOL:

denphone 06-03-2013 14:50

Re: US Cable Giant Liberty Global buys Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Mick Fisher (Post 35544942)
Welcome to the buffering fest :LOL:

Come on Mick that's a bit unfair.:)

Mick Fisher 06-03-2013 14:58

Re: US Cable Giant Liberty Global buys Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35544950)
Come on Mick that's a bit unfair.:)

Possibly Den....

But I speak from my experience of VM's dire performance with youtube. :(

It was just one of the many reasons that I left.

I have no problems streaming on SkyFibre :)

denphone 06-03-2013 15:12

Re: US Cable Giant Liberty Global buys Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Mick Fisher (Post 35544955)
Possibly Den....

But I speak from my experience of VM's dire performance with youtube. :(

It was just one of the many reasons that I left.

I have no problems streaming on SkyFibre :)

And sadly some people will have bad experiences but luckily my experiences have always been generally good.

Sirius 07-03-2013 08:47

Re: US Cable Giant Liberty Global buys Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35544958)
And sadly some people will have bad experiences but luckily my experiences have always been generally good.

I have had both good and bad and thankfully the good outweighs the bad. If it turns the other way i would then look at my options just like anyone else.

devilincarnate 20-03-2013 16:32

Re: US Cable Giant Liberty Global buys Virgin Media
 
Looks like a spending spree?

Quote:

RTTNews.com) - Billionaire John Malone'sLiberty Media Corp. (LMCA, LMCB) is close to a deal to buy a 25 percent stake in cable operator Charter Communications Inc. ( CHTR ) for about $2.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing people familiar with the situation.
Shares of Charter gained more than 8 percent in the regular trading session on Monday following the WSJ report, giving the Stamford, Connecticut-based company a market capitalization of $9.92 billion. The company provides advanced video, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to about 5.2 million residential and business customers in 25 states.
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/wsj-li...4#.UUnWOxfK6ro

Pierre 22-03-2013 15:38

Re: US Cable Giant Liberty Global buys Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by devilincarnate (Post 35551047)

Just for clarification, Liberty Media is nothing to do with Liberty Global, other than John Malone has a stake in both.

johnathome 28-03-2013 21:35

Re: US Cable Giant Liberty Global buys Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by joglynne (Post 35544918)

Looking at that link does anyone have any info on the Horizon box that Liberty uses?

EDIT

http://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...hes-Horizon-TV

wow! this is what i thought Tivo was meant to be like

Horizon TV changes your tablet, smartphone or laptop into a television. An iPad can be used as a remote control or as an additional TV screen in the home. At the same time, customers can wirelessly stream personal content from their computers, tablets and smartphones onto their TV screens.

Qtx 29-03-2013 00:32

Re: US Cable Giant Liberty Global buys Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by johnathome (Post 35554180)
wow! this is what i thought Tivo was meant to be like

Horizon TV changes your tablet, smartphone or laptop into a television. An iPad can be used as a remote control or as an additional TV screen in the home. At the same time, customers can wirelessly stream personal content from their computers, tablets and smartphones onto their TV screens.

I would think most people will have a new TV with those capabilities built in before the Horizon box comes here. Sky and I think virgin too have android and iPad/iPhone apps that are tv guides but also change the channel, or can use Zeebox as an alternative. Sky users can stream on demand and live tv to both android/apple tablets and phones and virgin can stream to the apple devices. Any new tv and smart phone allows you to stream video files to and from each other. On my Galaxy S3 for example I can press the tv icon while playing my own recordings and it plays on the tv, or I can browse youtube on the phone and tell it to play to the tv.

I would have thought an STB would have to be something more special these days, unless there is enough people with older tv's

passingbat 29-03-2013 03:11

Re: US Cable Giant Liberty Global buys Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by johnathome (Post 35554180)
Looking at that link does anyone have any info on the Horizon box that Liberty uses?

EDIT

http://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...hes-Horizon-TV

wow! this is what i thought Tivo was meant to be like

Horizon TV changes your tablet, smartphone or laptop into a television. An iPad can be used as a remote control or as an additional TV screen in the home. At the same time, customers can wirelessly stream personal content from their computers, tablets and smartphones onto their TV screens.


Tivo already has some of that, and there is no reason why the rest couldn't be added. Some of the missing bits are because of the restrictions of UK broadcasters, and the Horizon box would have the same restrictions. In the US, there is a 4 tuner Tivo.

The important feature the Tivo has, that the Horizon box doesn't is Whishlists, and it's possible that Tivo patents prevent them ever being added to the Horizon box.


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