Thread: General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
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Old 05-04-2015, 10:44   #1644
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
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Originally Posted by Horizon View Post
Indeed, but the deal that VM did with TIVO was signed before LG came along, and, as far as I know, it has several years still to run.

LG have their own middleware (EPG software) called Horizon and its based on a standard that LG, Comcast and others call RDK which I believe is 4k capable.

LG made quite clear that they wanted to achieve scale and efficiencies when they bought VM, but I don't know how they square that with having two different technologies.
There are no current proposals to discontinue the provision of TIVOs to Virgin Media customers.

http://advanced-television.com/2015/...o-partnership/

UK cable MSO Virgin Media has extended its existing five-year partnership with next generation television specialist TiVo for a further three years. As part of the new agreement, Virgin Media has committed to the development of next-generation solutions from TiVo.

PS - Sorry, just seen later posts that make the same point!

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Originally Posted by vincerooney View Post
which again seems odd if theyre trying to bring virgin media fully into the liberty global family which not have everything the same?? same tv box etc. makes me again think they're keeping the two businesses apart, renewing the basic contracts for tivo, upgrading the network to make everything look attractive for a perspective buyer...
We don't really want the Horizon box, though, do we Vince? It may have more tuners, but perversely it has less recording capacity.

I'll stick with the TIVO quite happily!

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Originally Posted by DaMac View Post
Having a great broadband network isn't worth zilch if say Netflix has a major outage, err like it did overnight (prime time in North America)
Unfortunately, DaMac, any system is subject to outages sometimes.

We've had them on Virgin Media. A solar surge can knock out satellites. No system is safe, I'm afraid.
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