Cable Forum - View Single Post - Virgin Extends Liberate contract until Jan 2011

popper · 08-06-2009, 21:27

the OP seems to have missed the real story here even though they used it in the title.

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Virgin Media is to maintain its current Liberate middleware through until January 2011, following a new agreement with SeaChange International.

The decision follows recent comments by Virgin Media CEO Neil Berkett that the company was working on a new EPG that would combine on demand services with web-based content."

"SeaChange also confirmed a second Virgin contract extension, taking its Media Services VOD content processing agreement through until December 2011. Combined with significant business from US operators Comcast and Verizon it helped give the technology company revenues of $48.9 million (€34.48m). Net income of $1 million delivered SeaChange its seventh consecutive quarter of profitability"

that story being , the antiquated Liberate middleware and its backend are just not upto todays GUI expectations and has'nt been for many years.

its been clear for a very long time that all the in service STBs internal SOC (System On a Chip) CPU's are just not powerful enough to run this antiquated Liberate middleware anywere near effectively, not to mention liberate is well known to be a massive CPU cycles hog for even the very limited microscopic subset of the generic Html javacode it was designed to use....

ineffective core code and slow CPU's make for a very bad GUI and lockup experience as we all know using C&W/NTL/VM kit for any length of time.

as for the back end, that too is way to old, but VM once again go for the super cheap short term option, at the expense of a realtime current GUI and backend that could help sell more subsciptions long term...

rebol view could be had for a very good price and produce any No. of fancy "personal GUI's" outclassing anything on the world market today or in the near future, if Neil just took to time and talked to the Amiga lead OS guy and creator of rebol view Carl Sassenrath, CTO ,REBOL Technologies
http://www.rebol.net/cgi-bin/r3blog.r and ask him about it.

08-06-2009, 21:27	#3
popper Inactive Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,270	Re: Virgin Extends Liberate contract until Jan 2011 the OP seems to have missed the real story here even though they used it in the title. " Virgin Media is to maintain its current Liberate middleware through until January 2011, following a new agreement with SeaChange International. The decision follows recent comments by Virgin Media CEO Neil Berkett that the company was working on a new EPG that would combine on demand services with web-based content." "SeaChange also confirmed a second Virgin contract extension, taking its Media Services VOD content processing agreement through until December 2011. Combined with significant business from US operators Comcast and Verizon it helped give the technology company revenues of $48.9 million (€34.48m). Net income of $1 million delivered SeaChange its seventh consecutive quarter of profitability" that story being , the antiquated Liberate middleware and its backend are just not upto todays GUI expectations and has'nt been for many years. its been clear for a very long time that all the in service STBs internal SOC (System On a Chip) CPU's are just not powerful enough to run this antiquated Liberate middleware anywere near effectively, not to mention liberate is well known to be a massive CPU cycles hog for even the very limited microscopic subset of the generic Html javacode it was designed to use.... ineffective core code and slow CPU's make for a very bad GUI and lockup experience as we all know using C&W/NTL/VM kit for any length of time. as for the back end, that too is way to old, but VM once again go for the super cheap short term option, at the expense of a realtime current GUI and backend that could help sell more subsciptions long term... rebol view could be had for a very good price and produce any No. of fancy "personal GUI's" outclassing anything on the world market today or in the near future, if Neil just took to time and talked to the Amiga lead OS guy and creator of rebol view Carl Sassenrath, CTO ,REBOL Technologies http://www.rebol.net/cgi-bin/r3blog.r and ask him about it.