[Horizon]

As I see it, the real merger of telewest and ntl will happen when everyone is on tivo and as far as broadband goes, on docsis3.

Up until now, vm have been using stop gap measures from legacy cablecos to keep things going, ie using epg software that is more than ten years old and designed to do a lot less than it does now.

So in answer to the OP's question, apart from dealing with faults, I don't see vm spending time and money updating the liberate software.

Sky will also have to make a decision soon about what to do with their tv platform. Their epg software is at the limits it can cope, so sky need to take a decision about whether they should do what vm is going to do and start from scratch or muddle on.