Digital TV technology specialist Pace is working with Comcast, one of the world’s leading providers of entertainment, information and communications products and services, to launch a new hybrid DVR set-top box with tru2way and IP capabilities that delivers an advanced personalised TV viewing experience. Comcast is using the Pace set-top box platform in a market […]
Over three-quarters of Americans (77 per cent) have watched a TV show on the Internet rather than on a traditional television, according to a poll by Harris Interactive. Over half of those with cable met (56 per cent) would stop paying for cable, if certain stipulations were met. Other findings in this poll include: – […]
At the NCTA Cable Show in Chicago, Motorola Mobility has unveiled another tool aimed at allowing cable operators to provide their customers with the ability to watch live TV on a connected IP device anywhere around the home. Motorola Televation is a broadband device that works with a Wi-Fi router, and employs a 1GHz digital […]
Optical transport solution provider Aurora Networks revealed at the NCTA Cable Show in Chicago that it has signed a memorandum of understanding for technical co-operation with Radio, Film and Television Design and Research Institute (DRFT). The institute is an organisation under China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT). The agreement is designed to […]
Advanced television services and DVR specialist TiVo has chosen Chicago’s NCTA Cable Show to unveil the next generation of its whole home solution, with the addition of robust HD video streaming and two new set-tops to its service provider product family. TiVo Premiere Q, the company’s first-ever quad-tuner gateway set-top box, and TiVo Preview, its […]
Nielsen Media Research says a record number of American TV households are switching from cable to receiving video programming via an alternate delivery system (ADS), mostly via direct broadcast satellite, according to a TVB analysis of data for May 2011, while cable penetration has declined to a 21-year low. According to Nielsen NTI data, national […]
Dutch cable operator Ziggo has put an initial public offering (IPO) on hold, reportedly due to volatile equity markets. Ziggo hired Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank and UBS at the beginning of April to handle an IPO but no decision has yet been made on when to launch the process. It is also […]
Kabel Deutschland, Germany’s largest cable operator, reported full-year revenue at the low end of its forecast and announced a lower dividend than anticipated; the shares fell over 5 per cent in early trading. The company said that Chief Financial Officer Paul Thomason won’t renew his contract when it expires in March next year. The full-year […]
As reported here yesterday, Microsoft Corp has used day one of E3 in Los Angeles confirm plans for live TV via Xbox. It also confirmed plans presaged at CES in January to put its Kinect motion control into play for controlling media options on the platform so channels and VoD can be chosen with voice […]
Virgin Media is celebrating an £81.5 million (€91.4m) VAT refund from HM Revenue & Customs. The refund covers an eight-year period between 2003 and 2011 on an undisclosed part of the Virgin business. It has also agreed to pay a lower-than-expected £23.6 million in VAT as a result of a separate settlement with HMRC, ending […]