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Originally Posted by mike_gain
That would be telling :-P
Seriously though the prospect of a new box would have implications for the existing platform. We'd have to hope that if there is a new box that its software is on the same software branch as the existing box so that we don't get in the situation where users of the existing platform miss out on updates only done in the new box's code branch. But that too may present its own problems.
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If they are going to do a decent update from the current Tivo, that will be partially unavoidable.
For example, in the US, the Roamio got the Amazon Prime update several months before the Premier (which the VM Tivo is based on), and there will come a time when the Premier won't get updates. The Premier surely must be coming to the end of it's potential upgrade life for any significant functionality additions.
And it's not unreasonable that a new box will have functionality that just can't be added to the old box.
This is why I wonder where VM will pitch their new box. If the are looking at competing with Sky Q, it must be at least an enhanced Bolt based box, which will run a different update path to the current Tivo. Or will they go for essentially the current Tivo with beefed up hardware i.e. faster processor, bigger hard drive and maybe an extra couple of tuners.