TiVo Re-Entering UK With Co-Branded Virgin Media Box In 2010
PaidContent Nov 25 09
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is tapping TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) to develop the middleware and interface for its forthcoming line of “television and broadband” set top boxes, marking the DVR maker’s return to the UK after six years. More than that, Virgin is calling it a “TiVo co-branded product”.
Cable provider Virgin Media’s EPG remains almost as flaky as that it inherited in the ntl merger and, since Virgin has been spearheading the popularisation of living-room VOD TV in the UK, the number of menus and options has been proliferating.
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