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Originally Posted by Jong1
While it's true looks don't guarantee quality, this, as someone who has sourced electronics from Asian factories, looks like a different problem - companies seeking to get the lowest price product by buying the kind of generic piece of kit normally sold by no-name brands.
It is surely possible to get very high quality products from outsourced manufacturing, as Apple and others prove, but by active involvement in all stages of development and manufacturing, not by buying a generic box, the design objectives for which are paper specs and absolute minimum cost.
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I assume that LGI has been very heavily involved in the design of this box which will be in use across all of its European businesses, with Horizon software utilised outside the UK. (They've not just bought a few million from Alibaba off-the-peg with their branding on.)
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Originally Posted by veeemmm
Didn't VM themselves say it was a cheap box designed only to be multi-purpose. i.e. they can put the current VM Tivo firmware on it initially and replace it with their own platform when ready. So probably misleading to make it look like a whizzy new Tivo if that is only a short term objective???
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The rumours are that Horizon will end up licencing Tivo elements so the two platforms will probably be quite similar in the end. Tivo is only software not hardware in the UK; the only hardware style of Tivo is the remote control.