Here's a couple of titbits of news/rumours from Liberty's latest Q2 earnings which was released earlier:
A lot of talk on here a while back about whether Amazon Prime (formerly Lovefilm) would come to VM or not. Well, still no clearer on that today, but something I didn't know is that Liberty have their own Netflix type service called MyPrime which is being rolled out across their cablecos.
MyPrime costs about the same per month as Netflix, or, if you take a higher priced bundle it comes free as part of that bundle. Perhaps this may come to VM soon.
Secondly, Liberty's cloud based service is launching in Poland. We have Tivo in the UK, but in Liberty's other cablecos they use their own software and stbs called Horizon. Liberty have teamed up with Comcast and Time Warner Cable to centralise software standards and they call this RDK (Reference Design Kit). The Horizon cloud based service launching in Poland is based on RDK software and standards.
Here's a review of the Dutch MyPrime service here, translated already for you:
http://translate.google.co.uk/transl...80%26bih%3D566
News items about RDK:
http://www.lightreading.com/cable-vi.../d/d-id/708205
http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/1301...s-RDK-Gateways
http://www.lightreading.com/cable-vi.../d/d-id/708670
And for those interested in Horizon and have not already done so, have a gander over to Liberty's Irish cableco site for info:
http://www.upc.ie/horizontv/discover-horizon/