Astro, Malaysia’s largest pay-TV operator, aims to complete the conversion of its customers’ legacy set-top boxes to the B.yond HD platform by the year-end, said chief executive officer Datuk Rohana Rozhan. “We saw over 64 per cent of customers during the first quarter subscribing to HD and other value-added services, which in turn drove up our average revenue per user,” [...]
With claims of a “tropical heatwave” heading for the UK, telecoms group Virgin Media has partnered with US network The Weather Channel to launch a new service which will provide UK weather forecasts through its TiVO set-top box, as well as on its website and mobile website. The new TV app provides 24-hour and five-day forecasts for up to 10 [...]
Atlantic Broadband has partnered exclusively with TiVo to power its slate of digital entertainment services across TV, Web and Mobile platforms. Atlantic Broadband is the first US MSO to leverage TiVo’s complete product suite which delivers a unified experience that spans whole home DVR, HD STBs for non-DVR households, access to Internet delivered video and applications, and multi-screen viewing experiences [...]
Japanese telco NTT West will stream 4k video over the Internet to set-top boxes this week, in what it claims is the world’s first public test of the technology. NTT will conduct a three-day trial in Tokyo during a digital media seminar from June 12th to June 14th. The telco said it will use the MPEG-HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) [...]
TiVo, the DVR specialist, and Mediacom, the 8th largest cable operator in the US, have revealed during The Cable show that Mediacom has begun roll-out of its TiVo offering. “We are thrilled at the speed and ease with which we were able to prepare for the launch of TiVo in our markets,” said John Apparelling, Executive Vice President of Operations [...]
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Sony has unveiled the PlayStation 4, its first new console in seven years, taking the battle to Microsoft with a lower-priced machine, original content and fresh titles. The PS4 will retail at $399 in the US (and £349 in the UK) – 20 per cent less than Microsoft’s Xbox One, Sony executives revealed at the E3 in Los Angeles. The [...]
Despite winning a total of $490 million from a trio of heavy-hitting lawsuits (with Google/Motorola, Time Warner and Cisco) and seeing its share price rocket more than 10 per cent on June 6th. The market then seemed to say ‘Is that all there is?’ and promptly saw a 20 per cent plunge on June 7th. Indeed, the consensus is now [...]
LG Electronics has revealed a line-up of IP-connected devices for platforms including its own NetCast Smart TV operating system and Google TV which are designed to blend cable-supplied, TV Everywhere, VoD and whole-home DVR capabilities with over-the-top apps from Hulu, Vudu, and YouTube and others. LG said it will use DLNA to connect to home gateways in order to pick [...]
International set-top box and broadband gateways vendor Sagemcom has joined MoCA as an Associate member. Sagemcom offers an extensive range of solutions: Digital STBs and DVR for all transmission media, xDSL/FTTH/cable gateways and Multimedia Home Gateways. “Integrating MoCA into our products will enable service providers to deliver a highly reliable in-home backbone for extending and enhancing existing Wi-Fi networks and [...]
TiVo has settled its pending patent litigation with Motorola (now owned by Google and Arris), Cisco and Time Warner Cable and that TiVo has agreed to enter into certain patent licenses with Arris, Cisco, and Google. As part of the settlement, Google and Cisco will pay TiVo an upfront lump-sum payment of $490 million, bringing the total from awards and [...]
