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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
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Been waiting for that webcast,looks like they've just uploaded it. Thanks for highlighting it.
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Sorry, this is the first link.
Page 4 " Of note, Virgin Media is preparing for the launch of a new set-top box."
And this is the second.
Page 2 "Enhancing our TV platform in the U.K.:
* Added new on-demand programming in Q1
* Working on further improvements to user-interface in the second half of 2016
* Preparing to launch new set-top box platform"
Note that one release says "set-top box" and the other says "set-top box platform". Is "platform" a mistake?
When considering the Tivo v Horizon argument, I think it's important to consider two things. Firstly, the UK is LGI's largest market. Secondly, there are 3m Tivos installed by VM v 2m Horizon. So Tivo is currently LGI's most popular platform.
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That's the million dollar question, which, I think Liberty/VM has answered at the end of the webcast. EVERYONE should listen to it. I'll state the facts, then give my opinion.
Facts:
Tom Mockbridge, VM boss says this, "we are committed to the 2nd half of this year to deploy EOS in the United Kingdom. We'll put some tivo software on it, that'll give us a lot more functionality for our customers."
"We're very confident that with the tv launch/relaunch that we have coming through this year, that we'll remain very competitive with Sky."
"So far we've seen very little impact from the Sky Q which is of course a very expensive decoder and we're very focussed on improving the offer we have there and EOS is going to be a big part of that."
And to finish the webcast, another Liberty exec says, "...this new box is going to be a 4k box, a pretty high powered box that will get a refreshed tivo UI on it later this year. And then in following years our goal is to get Horizon across all of Europe and the EOS box, this new 4k box is going to be the engine for next generation for video for Liberty."
Opinion:
Mike Fries said at the beginning of the webcast that EOS is a project name for a cloud based set top box. At the end of the webcast, Tom Mockbridge states that SkyQ is a expensive decoder.
VM will NOT launch a new physical 4k box, it'll be cloud based!!.