US Cable Giant Liberty Global buys Virgin Media

[babis3g]

Have seen something and in here
http://www.cnssecuritieslaw.com/2013/02/14/756.htm

[joglynne]

Originally Posted by babis3g

Have seen something and in here
http://www.cnssecuritieslaw.com/2013/02/14/756.htm

Don't you just love legal jargon. Defendants have "exacerbated their breaches of fiduciary duty" I really must try to work that phrase into a conversation some time soon.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by babis3g

Have seen something and in here
http://www.cnssecuritieslaw.com/2013/02/14/756.htm

Oh my

[babis3g]

i don't really want to involve in this kind of businnes (to much changes around the world in general) ... it was my first post in this thread ... the previous poster mentioned about court and just posted a link from solicitor's web

[joglynne]

Virgin Media to Embrace Online Rivals After Liberty Takeover

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...y-liberty.html

[Mick Fisher]

Originally Posted by joglynne

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...y-liberty.html

Welcome to the buffering fest

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Mick Fisher

Welcome to the buffering fest

Come on Mick that's a bit unfair.

[Mick Fisher]

Originally Posted by denphone

Come on Mick that's a bit unfair.

Possibly Den....

But I speak from my experience of VM's dire performance with youtube.

It was just one of the many reasons that I left.

I have no problems streaming on SkyFibre

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Mick Fisher

Possibly Den....

But I speak from my experience of VM's dire performance with youtube.

It was just one of the many reasons that I left.

I have no problems streaming on SkyFibre

And sadly some people will have bad experiences but luckily my experiences have always been generally good.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by denphone

And sadly some people will have bad experiences but luckily my experiences have always been generally good.

I have had both good and bad and thankfully the good outweighs the bad. If it turns the other way i would then look at my options just like anyone else.

[devilincarnate]

Looks like a spending spree?

RTTNews.com) - Billionaire John Malone'sLiberty Media Corp. (LMCA, LMCB) is close to a deal to buy a 25 percent stake in cable operator Charter Communications Inc. ( CHTR ) for about $2.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing people familiar with the situation.
Shares of Charter gained more than 8 percent in the regular trading session on Monday following the WSJ report, giving the Stamford, Connecticut-based company a market capitalization of $9.92 billion. The company provides advanced video, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to about 5.2 million residential and business customers in 25 states.

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/wsj-li...4#.UUnWOxfK6ro

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by devilincarnate

Looks like a spending spree?



http://www.nasdaq.com/article/wsj-li...4#.UUnWOxfK6ro

Just for clarification, Liberty Media is nothing to do with Liberty Global, other than John Malone has a stake in both.

[johnathome]

Originally Posted by joglynne

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...y-liberty.html

Looking at that link does anyone have any info on the Horizon box that Liberty uses?

EDIT

http://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...hes-Horizon-TV

wow! this is what i thought Tivo was meant to be like

Horizon TV changes your tablet, smartphone or laptop into a television. An iPad can be used as a remote control or as an additional TV screen in the home. At the same time, customers can wirelessly stream personal content from their computers, tablets and smartphones onto their TV screens.

[Qtx]

Originally Posted by johnathome

wow! this is what i thought Tivo was meant to be like

Horizon TV changes your tablet, smartphone or laptop into a television. An iPad can be used as a remote control or as an additional TV screen in the home. At the same time, customers can wirelessly stream personal content from their computers, tablets and smartphones onto their TV screens.

I would think most people will have a new TV with those capabilities built in before the Horizon box comes here. Sky and I think virgin too have android and iPad/iPhone apps that are tv guides but also change the channel, or can use Zeebox as an alternative. Sky users can stream on demand and live tv to both android/apple tablets and phones and virgin can stream to the apple devices. Any new tv and smart phone allows you to stream video files to and from each other. On my Galaxy S3 for example I can press the tv icon while playing my own recordings and it plays on the tv, or I can browse youtube on the phone and tell it to play to the tv.

I would have thought an STB would have to be something more special these days, unless there is enough people with older tv's

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by johnathome

Looking at that link does anyone have any info on the Horizon box that Liberty uses?

EDIT

http://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...hes-Horizon-TV

wow! this is what i thought Tivo was meant to be like

Horizon TV changes your tablet, smartphone or laptop into a television. An iPad can be used as a remote control or as an additional TV screen in the home. At the same time, customers can wirelessly stream personal content from their computers, tablets and smartphones onto their TV screens.

Tivo already has some of that, and there is no reason why the rest couldn't be added. Some of the missing bits are because of the restrictions of UK broadcasters, and the Horizon box would have the same restrictions. In the US, there is a 4 tuner Tivo.

The important feature the Tivo has, that the Horizon box doesn't is Whishlists, and it's possible that Tivo patents prevent them ever being added to the Horizon box.