Virgin Media has a 4K box in the works and existing TiVo boxes get upgrade

Virgin Media is soon to replace its TiVo box as the flagship set-top-box in its TV line-up. There is a new device coming in the next few months and it will be capable of 4K video output.

In its first quarter financial results for 2016, the company revealed that it is “preparing to launch [a] new set-top-box platform”.

What that will entail is yet to be determined, although a Virgin Media spokesman told What Hi-Fi that it will definitely be 4K-ready: “There will be a new set-top-box coming later this year, and it will support ultra high definition video,” he said.

It will undoubtedly first be offered as a premium service, much like Sky Q. It might also stick with TiVo considering the platform company has recently been acquired by Rovi in the US and is therefore in a strong position to develop new ideas.

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Existing TiVo users need not think they are being left behind, however. Virgin Media plans to roll out a new interface for the standard TiVo boxes out there too.

The company will be enhancing its TV platform through “working on further improvements to [its] user-interface in the second half of 2016”.

The Virgin Media spokesman told What Hi-Fi that will include slicker menus and will be “more picture based”.