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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
I'm surprised that they bothered with the 360 at all tbh. Wouldn't it have been easier (and probably as cheap) to pay the TiVo licensing fees for a little longer and then start pushing customers towards their streaming box?
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Liberty Global has its Horizon 4 team in Amsterdam, doing development work for LG's boxes in multiple European countries. The last thing LG needs is to keep paying licence fees to TiVo. So, the Virgin Media TiVo and V6 boxes are just being maintained pending replacement. Actually the TV 360 box is also on its way out and after a while it will only be Stream boxes remaining.
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Originally Posted by Carth
This 'watching TV' malarkey is quite complicated isn't it  |
Ah, except that it's no longer 'TV'. We've now also got IPTV, some of which is linear (FAST channels) and catch-up and on-demand delivered by multiple ways including apps, channels and Virgin Media's hosted content. Virgin Media now believes it's in the entertainment business, which comprises traditional TV and IPTV. Viewers now have a lot of options they never had. Of course, for nerds like me it's all fascinating.