Originally Posted by BenMcr

It's not just the front end that Virgin are considering though, it's the entire platform

Liberate is fine to run linear channels and some VoD stuff, however long term it's not powerful enough to compete with what the other platforms may do in the future.

So it's either change now when you have a product such as TiVo to drive it, or change later when your competitors may have something that will stop people switching

Even Sky have basically done something similar - they only supply Sky+HD boxes now and Anytime+ is limited to those boxes. They just have less backend platform to worry about so have been able to do it quicker