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One of Europe's largest cable co's Liberty Global is to launch its new 4K HDR enabled 'Horizon 4' set-top-box. Horizon 4 will initially be rolled out in Switzerland, The Netherlands and Belgium, with other European markets to follow. The company introduced at its annual Tech Summit in Amsterdam.
Liberty Global promises that the new Horizon 4 will be 'a superfast set-top box', where the current Horizon box is sluggish and for many users unstable. It offers 4K Ultra HD picture quality. The remote-control has voice capabilities. An upgraded version of Liberty's 'GO' mobile app works together with the set-top box to deliver a seamless viewing experience.
The platform will be introduced over the coming months to selected customers in The Netherlands, Switzerland and Belgium, with a wider rollout in these and other Liberty Global markets to follow.
The new Horizon 4 box and user interface combines access to linear TV, Replay and Video on Demand with apps such as Netflix and YouTube. Network PVR.
Voice capabilities in the remote control the box or allow one to search for things to watch just by speaking into the remote.
The new box has already been introduced as the ‘V6 box’ in the UK where the box is used in combination with TiVo software, by nearly 2 million customers.
The hardware and user interfaces of the Horizon 4 product suite were developed in-house by teams based at Liberty Global’s tech campus in Schiphol-Rijk in The Netherlands, together with various teams in other countries and with external partners across Europe. Before launching Horizon 4, the company tested the platform in over 10,000 customer homes in various different countries.
The Horizon 4 software powering the new 4K set-top box was developed using RDK (Reference Design Kit), which is supported by a software consortium with more than 350 members, managed by a joint-venture between Liberty Global, Comcast Cable and Charter Communications. One major improvement compared with previous set-top box platforms is that Horizon 4 will see updates being made every few weeks.
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Liberty Global promises that the new Horizon 4 will be 'a superfast set-top box', where the current Horizon box is sluggish and for many users unstable. It offers 4K Ultra HD picture quality. The remote-control has voice capabilities. An upgraded version of Liberty's 'GO' mobile app works together with the set-top box to deliver a seamless viewing experience.
The platform will be introduced over the coming months to selected customers in The Netherlands, Switzerland and Belgium, with a wider rollout in these and other Liberty Global markets to follow.
The new Horizon 4 box and user interface combines access to linear TV, Replay and Video on Demand with apps such as Netflix and YouTube. Network PVR.
Voice capabilities in the remote control the box or allow one to search for things to watch just by speaking into the remote.
The new box has already been introduced as the ‘V6 box’ in the UK where the box is used in combination with TiVo software, by nearly 2 million customers.
The hardware and user interfaces of the Horizon 4 product suite were developed in-house by teams based at Liberty Global’s tech campus in Schiphol-Rijk in The Netherlands, together with various teams in other countries and with external partners across Europe. Before launching Horizon 4, the company tested the platform in over 10,000 customer homes in various different countries.
The Horizon 4 software powering the new 4K set-top box was developed using RDK (Reference Design Kit), which is supported by a software consortium with more than 350 members, managed by a joint-venture between Liberty Global, Comcast Cable and Charter Communications. One major improvement compared with previous set-top box platforms is that Horizon 4 will see updates being made every few weeks.
https://vimeo.com/290256441