At least we know why the Virgin Media name is absent from the EPG in the latest software change for TIVO....I can easily see VM becoming Vodafone Media, yes.
Vodafone and Liberty have been competing for cable assets, so it makes sense for the two to combine. Malone has been quoted as saying he wants to do one last big deal before retirement, so perhaps this is it.
I've always said on this forum and others, that we'll end up with 3, or perhaps 4 companies all offering tv, broadband, landline phone and mobile and other media too. Perhaps looking something like this:
BT, O2, ITV
Sky, Talktalk, EE
Vodafone, Virgin Media
In related news, Vodafone is looking to buy Tesco's video streaming service Blinkbox:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...V-service.html