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Originally Posted by Media Boy
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They are talking about the Horizon box eventually replacing Tivo. There is nothing on the Horizon box that couldn't be added to Tivo (latest US Tivo has four tuners). But compared to Tivo, the Horizon box lacks one of Tivo's greatest features, Whishlists, and the HD recording capacity of the Horizon box is half that of Tivo. I really hope they don't go down that route.
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Virgin’s Tivo now has 1.33 million subscriptions in the UK, after adding 896,000 this year, but Liberty is likely to be making a long-term bet that its interactive set-top box – Horizon – will ultimately help it attract new UK subscribers, reduce churn and boost average revenue per user.
Horizon has launched in the Netherlands and Switzerland and is expected to launch in Germany and Ireland before the end of the year.
Liberty is working with YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and about 60 content partners to develop apps for its app store, and Horizon offers an online video store, which already has 3,000 titles.
The box has the ability to record up to four channels at any one time and allows subscribers to watch shows concurrently on their computer, iPad or iPhone.
It can also record up to 175 hours of standard-definition shows or 65 hours of HD shows.
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