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Old 10-05-2016, 13:34   #16
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Re: Virgin Media will launch a new set-top box

Let's hope they improve the Horizon box and it's remote as both look seriously ugly.

A remote with a keyboard , tv email anyone.
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Old 10-05-2016, 13:38   #17
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Re: Virgin Media will launch a new set-top box

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That will all change, he adds, beginning this week. The user interface will get an overhaul to make its menus slicker and more picture-based.
this week ?

interesting piece anyway, lets see where it leads
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Re: Virgin Media will launch a new set-top box

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Let's hope they improve the Horizon box and it's remote as both look seriously ugly.

A remote with a keyboard , tv email anyone.
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Re: Virgin Media will launch a new set-top box

New 4K box launching later this year

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Re: Virgin Media will launch a new set-top box

According to the latest article from Engadget today

http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/10/v...k-set-top-box/

"There will be a new set-top box coming later this year, and it will support Ultra High Definition video," a Virgin Media spokesperson told What HiFi. "Before that we will be updating the existing TiVO set-top box to make its menus slicker and more picture-based."
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Re: Virgin Media will launch a new set-top box

I hope they slip one more new Tivo box in. Goodbye Whishlists when Horizon finally launches.

Is the current Horizon a 4k box? I don't think so (but can't be bothered to check ). If that is the case, then it is pointless making comparisons with the current Horizon box as it will be a new box for 4k.
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Re: Virgin Media will launch a new set-top box

Well we shall see PB on what transpires in the coming 6 to 9 months.
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Well we shall see PB on what transpires in the coming 6 to 9 months.
I'd say we'll get a software update for the existing TiVO platform before the Olympics. Then we'll get some sort of new TiVO platform, supporting 4K, the tail end of this year/ start of next year.

A move to Horizon will be a few years away.
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I'd say we'll get a software update for the existing TiVO platform before the Olympics. Then we'll get some sort of new TiVO platform, supporting 4K, the tail end of this year/ start of next year.

A move to Horizon will be a few years away.
I sincerely hope you are right; that's how the Telegraph article read to me.
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Its not just a new STB but a new platform as well. I am betting it will be Horizon.
That's what I thought and said in the other thread, but someone said a few months ago that they were testing a new tivo.???

I find it hard to believe that Liberty would want one technology, its own, for all its cablecos except VM.

As a side note, Vodafone use TIVO for their cablecos.
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That's what I thought and said in the other thread, but someone said a few months ago that they were testing a new tivo.???

I find it hard to believe that Liberty would want one technology, its own, for all its cablecos except VM.

As a side note, Vodafone use TIVO for their cablecos.
You would also have to wonder why it would launch a new Tivo next year if the plan is to move to Horizon. The life cycle of a STB is generally at least 4-5 years.
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Re: Virgin Media will launch a new set-top box

....that's exactly what I said too on the other thread.

The Horizon tech is no spring chicken in itself now. If VM were to move to it "in a few years", Liberty would by then be moving onto the next thing, so why bother?

As I said before, I reckon they'll update the current tivo to hopefully make it work better, but all new stuff will be on Horizon.
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Re: Virgin Media will launch a new set-top box

Well, who knows for sure? If a new all singing and dancing Horizon box is what they are planning, let's hope it is a 2MB!
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As a side note, Vodafone use TIVO for their cablecos.
I believe that's just ONO Spain where Vodafone inherited the Tivo contract by acquiring ONO.

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You would also have to wonder why it would launch a new Tivo next year if the plan is to move to Horizon. The life cycle of a STB is generally at least 4-5 years.
There's infrastructure investment required to support Horizon which is already in place for Tivo. So maybe logical to introduce a new Tiivo now and in a few years' time introduce a new cloud-based solution in all territories.

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Let's hope they improve the Horizon box and it's remote as both look seriously ugly.

A remote with a keyboard , tv email anyone.
I hope they hire a designer for future boxes, although they manage to make it look a bit nicer in this guide. https://www.upc-cablecom.ch/content/...ser-manual.pdf
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Well, who knows for sure? If a new all singing and dancing Horizon box is what they are planning, let's hope it is a 2MB!
That will be just about enough space to record the little white dot on your TV at the end of the night.....

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