Researcher Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates says that in 2010 UK viewers watched 93 billion hours of TV, which works out to around 28 hours per person per week, an increase of 14 billion hours compared to 2006. While time-shifted content has contributed to the growth of TV consumption, linear broadcast has continued to grow: 80 […]
Time Warner Cable has confirmed the launch of the TWC TV app for Android smartphones. The free app allows Digital TV customers to search programme listings by title or episode name, browse network schedules, set favourite channels and even program their DVR right from their smartphone. The app is available to video customers at the […]
According to an Ofcom report, over a quarter (27 per cent) of UK Internet users say they watch TV online every week, an increase of three percentage points from 2010 – and higher than any of the other 16 countries surveyed. The popularity of a wide variety of free-to-view catch-up TV services such as BBC […]
“TiVo has just crossed an inflection point,” says a positive “buy” note from investment bank UBS. The point, says the bank, occurred two weeks ago in its then latest numbers and in which TiVo reported the first net subscriber gain after many years of lost viewers. The growth was helped by subscriber take-up in the […]
Amino Technologies has provided an update on trading for the year ended 30 November 2011. The Company expects to deliver a profit for the year that is marginally ahead of market expectations (FY2010: loss of £0.9m). This is the result of the operational improvements highlighted at the time of the interim results and continued traction […]
NSR’s “Global Direct-to-Home (DTH) Markets, 4th Edition” study finds the DTH market continues to drive satellite demand and revenue worldwide amidst a troubling economic climate and increasing competition. DTH services utilised 950 Ku-Band 36 MHz Transponder Equivalents (TPEs) in 2010. In the same year, DTH platforms delivered almost 16,900 SD, HD, and 3D television channels […]
At the 69th meeting of the DVB Steering Board, the Commercial Requirements for CI Plus v1.4 were approved thereby allowing the technical work on the specification to progress. These Commercial Requirements build on top of the current CI Plus v1.3 specification with two main features: support for dual-stream operation with a single module, intended for […]
DVR specialist TiVo added 117,000 net new subscribers during its Q3 period (to end of October 2011), a complete reverse of the 112,000 lost in the same period last year, and a 33,000 drop in Q2 2011. TiVo was helped in winning these new subscribers by the roll-out of its technology by UK cableco Virgin […]
ONO, the largest cable operator in Spain, and TiVo have announced their next generation hybrid television offering is now available to ONO subscribers in major Spanish cities, Madrid and Barcelona. ONO plans to also extend TiVo to its entire fibre optic network within the coming months. ONO will deploy a set top box offering their […]
Hybrid Television Services, the licensee of TiVo products in Australia and New Zealand and the creator of CASPA On-Demand, has launched a limited edition, TiVo 1TB media device. The device is branded as TiVo XL reflecting the increased capacity of the hard drive from the original 320GB size to 1 Terabyte (TB) in recording capacity. […]