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Originally Posted by Richardr
Correct. Rovi bought Gemstar-TV-Guide, and Sky have licensed their EPG format patents since 2006.
Now it may be that these licences now include additional Rovi patents, but that wasn't the original deal.
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Tivo (outside the US) is clearly concentrating more on licensing its patents to third party content providers rather than manufacturing its own hardware anymore.
Apart from VM and Sky, its patented software is used under agreement with both Netflix and Google (YT) too, and is also integrated in to all LG, Panasonic and Samsung newest smart TVs to name just a few, and no doubt many other providers hardware and UI's aswell.
I'm now wondering with the sale of the fast majority of Liberty Global's assets in mainland Europe, and the seemingly delayed roll out of their Horizon 4 in the UK, why they don't migrate the new Tivo Hydra system onto the UK V6 boxes instead. It appears to be a fastly superior product not just to our current Tivo UI and Horizon, but would most certainly give Sky Q a run for its money whilst not alienating current Tivo V6 users too much!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7BJHMBFFWA