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Originally Posted by johnathome
wow! this is what i thought Tivo was meant to be like
Horizon TV changes your tablet, smartphone or laptop into a television. An iPad can be used as a remote control or as an additional TV screen in the home. At the same time, customers can wirelessly stream personal content from their computers, tablets and smartphones onto their TV screens.
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I would think most people will have a new TV with those capabilities built in before the Horizon box comes here. Sky and I think virgin too have android and iPad/iPhone apps that are tv guides but also change the channel, or can use Zeebox as an alternative. Sky users can stream on demand and live tv to both android/apple tablets and phones and virgin can stream to the apple devices. Any new tv and smart phone allows you to stream video files to and from each other. On my Galaxy S3 for example I can press the tv icon while playing my own recordings and it plays on the tv, or I can browse youtube on the phone and tell it to play to the tv.
I would have thought an STB would have to be something more special these days, unless there is enough people with older tv's