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Virgin Media will launch a new set-top box as it looks to compete with the recently-introduced Sky Q.
According to the Daily Telegraph, Virgin Media intends to bring the new device to market at the start of 2017, but it may try to make it available in time for the Christmas period. |
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Its not just a new STB but a new platform as well. I am betting it will be Horizon.
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Horizon is likely to be the successor to the new Tivo. I would be surprised if they launched both boxes at around the same time, and I think it likely that their existing contract with Tivo would prevent that from happening anyway.
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While it would seem less optimal to launch a new TiVo box at this stage, the features that have been talked about so far like "Series Link Plus" seemed to fit in more with the TiVo platform though than with current Horizon capabilities. Plans can of course change and the indications before were that the new box would launch a lot earlier.
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I thought series link plus (and some other improvements) was an upgrade coming this year to the existing Tivo
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'Preparing to launch' is different from 'will launch'. |
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All the wording suggests the new box is a completely new platform hence Stephens comment about Horizon. |
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The bit I quoted actually states a new platform so to me that is not a new TiVo. |
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I appreciate that VM does not want to give too much confidential information away hence the possible ambiguity. And it could be that the info Media Boy posted about a new Tivo pre-Olympics was a red herring fed to him to confuse the competition! |
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Indeed l think you have hit the nail on the head Andrew.:)
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