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Originally Posted by mersey70
For the life of me I do not understand why VM didn't go to a trusted long standing partner like Kudelski (who own the Nagra CA system) but who also own the highly successful and advanced Open TV middleware and get a more mainstream subscription free solution from them.
They could have come up with an answer to replace the ageing Liberate middleware and it would have been more then enough for most customers and as it's in well over 100m STB's (includng Sky's) they must be doing something right.
Tivo just seems expensive, bloated and provides features most of us couldn't care less about.
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Tivo has something the other companies don't and that is brand recognition in the mainstream. I doubt VM's marketing for a move to platform only basis with a focus on the digital age would have been anywhere near as strong if its partner wasn't a strong brand.