TiVo posted a narrower first-quarter loss after adding 277,000 pay-TV users – the most pay-TV subscribers gained in a quarter in seven years. The net loss of $10.3 million compared with a loss of $20.8 million year earlier. The company is currently holding “constructive” talks with Liberty Global which is buying Virgin Media, a TiVo customer, Chief Executive Officer Tom [...]
TalkTalk signed up 150,000 new subscribers to its YouView service in the first three months of this year – making it the UK’s fastest-growing new TV service. The leap took the total number of TV customers on the company’s network to more than 230,000 at the end of March, with 12,000 new customers taking the service each week. Early data [...]
Ian Mecklenburgh, Virgin Media’s director of consumer platforms, was non-committal about the future of Virgin’s TiVO once Liberty is in control. He conceded that Liberty had made big investments in their proprietary Horizon system, but equally “there is an install base of 1.5 million TiVos and that carries a lot of weight.” Mecklenburgh did enthuse on the latest improvements to [...]
Pace has announced its Interim Management Statement for the four months to April 23rd 2013. At its Annual General Meeting Allan Leighton, Chairman said: “I am pleased to report that Pace has made an encouraging start to the new financial year with strong revenue growth in the period, in line with our expectations. We expect revenue for H1 2013 will [...]
New software for the YouView Humax box is now available for retail and BT customers and will be rolled out over the next two weeks. The software will be available on Talk Talk YouView boxes shortly afterwards This software introduces a number of enhancements and new features: – An enhancement to searching for programmes that are on now and next; [...]
As the use of multiple connected devices in the home continues to increase year over year, home networks provide the foundation to connect mobile devices, appliances and systems in the home, according to Gartner. Gartner said that a network that shares a robust, reliable and fast fixed broadband access in the home will provide a cost-effective alternative to a metered [...]
Spain’s ONO has seen its TiVo offering taken up by 150,000 customers, it says. At the end of 2012 it had 100,000 TiVo customers, 11% of its TV user base. The service is available across its entire fibre network, priced at just €5 per month. “Our goal is to continue expanding the number of users and continue working on new products,” [...]
Pixsan Digital Software Ltd, a UK based specialist digital TV software development company, today announced that is has partnered with Really Simple Software, Inc., makers of the award-winning Simple.TV streaming DVR, to bring Simple.TV to the European, Middle East and African markets. Furthermore, Pixsan also says it will be ready with a Freeview version of the Simple.TV DVR and service [...]
Motorola Mobility’s Fourth Annual Media Engagement Barometer reveals that consumers are watching an enormous amount of video, in some surprising ways, in unexpected places. Motorola Mobility’s Media Engagement Barometer is an independent global study of video consumption habits among 9,500 consumers in 17 countries. The study looks closely at new and emerging content trends, such as multi-screen habits and recording [...]
Alticast, a specialist in interactive TV open standard software solutions, hastoday announced that it will provide cloud-based PVR solutions for KT SkyLife, Korea’s number one satellite broadcaster. The Alticast powered cloud PVR service is planned to launch in the second half of 2013 and will be a first for the Korean market. KT SkyLife is a digital satellite & IPTV [...]
