TiVo is planning to extend its digital TV technology expertise beyond the DVR. Commenting on the company’s Q4 results, Tom Rogers, TiVo President and CEO, said the advanced television services specialist was continuing to make strides to bring the look and feel of the TiVo user interface to other platforms beyond the DVR. “To that […]
The news earlier this week that TiVo and Pace had signed a strategic partnership was amplified February 23 by comments made by TiVo President and CEO Tom Rogers while discussing the company’s Q4 results. Addressing the new Pace relationship, Rogers, said: “A significant part of the development in any one of these projects is the […]
DVR specialist TiVo and STB maker Pace have revealed plans to port TiVo’s software to Pace’s set-tops and gateways. The initiative is designed further to enable operators around the world to deploy quickly and cost-effectively the TiVo consumer experience to a selection of Pace devices. “This global partnership with Pace is another step in achieving […]
Following yesterday’s reports in US press that Cisco was looking to sell Scientific-Atlanta, the company has moved to confirm its commitment to set-top boxes, describing such comments as “erroneous” and “unsourced”. In a Service Provider blog, Corporate Communications head John Earnhardt drew attention to comments made earlier in the month by Cisco Chairman and CEO […]
Entone, a leading provider of Hybrid TV and Connected Home solutions, has announced that Sunrise Communications, the largest private telecom provider in Switzerland, has selected Entone as its set-top box partner for the deployment of advanced IPTV services. Founded in 1997, Sunrise has long been an innovative provider of premium residential and business services that […]
ALi Corp, the Taiwanese-based integrated circuit manufacturer, says it has now shipped more than 300 million set-top box ‘system-on-a-chip’ devices, representing a CAGR increase of 43 per cent since 2005. “We are very pleased with our continuing success and the whole company is excited that we have climbed over another hill,” said Ben Lin, President […]
Freeview, the UK’s biggest digital television service, has revealed that after strong quarterly sales of 1.3 million Freeview HD televisions and STBs, the number of Freeview HD units sold reached 4.4 million by the end of December 20111. The strong sales performance of Freeview HD is echoed across the product portfolio; year-on-year sales of Freeview […]
Amino Technologies, the UK STB maker and solutions provider for in-home multimedia distribution, has announced audited results for the year ending November 30th 2011 showing year-on-year growth in revenue, operating profit, margins and cash generation. Turnover was up 18 per cent to £51.8 million (€62m) with gross profit up 16 per cent to £14.5 million […]
Google is planning to launch an own-brand home entertainment system, an Android device that would allow users to download music and other content and stream it to devices around the home with a smartphone or tablet acting as controller The move is revealed at in a recent filing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to […]
Virgin Media is happy to limit the apps available on TiVo, insisting quality is more important than quantity. COO Andrew Barron told analysts: They will be heavyweight apps, not just fodder. It’s easy to publish all sorts of things to it, because it’s got Flash – but we want to the real heavyweights.” Virgin claimed […]