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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth
Add that to the fact that the Tivo will have an ongoing licensing fee then I think we can all see that with the roll out of Horizon continuing in new markets the days (years?) of Tivo will be numbered.
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All STBs have several different licence fees. But they are small compared to the hardware cost. That's what really matters.
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
And I can't see either VM or LGI wanting to have three different techology systems running on the network (Liberate, TiVo and whatever Horizon runs on), it would be a support nightmare.
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LGI already run a whole pile of different platforms. I think there are four in Ireland alone.
Horizon is an attempt at a multinational box, but is still very new - only about 1% of LGI customers have it.
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Originally Posted by neilo
If Horizon boxes are LGI's own
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They are made by Samsung and much of the software is Cisco's. Do those names sound familiar?
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Originally Posted by neilo
then there is no doubt in my mind that at a point in the near future, they will be pushing them on to us and TiVo boxes will go.
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They'll do whatever makes business sense. I wouldn't like to guess what that will be.