DVR specialist TiVo turned in excellent numbers for its Q2 trading period, with revenue just topping $100 million, and about $30 million better than most analysts had expected. TiVo’s subs numbers are also at a record high, at 3.6 million (33 per cent up y-o-y), and even churn (at 1.5 per cent/month) is better than […]
TalkTalk says that it is the UK’s fastest-growing pay-TV service, after revealing that it has signed the 500,000th customer to its YouView-powered offering. The telco launched its budget TV service less than 12 months ago. “Reaching this milestone in less than a year is a great achievement, but it’s just the beginning,” said Dido Harding, […]
The smart set-top box and dongle market is expected to pass 18 million units in 2013 – higher than originally forecasted due to the arrival of Google’s Chromecast device. According to analysis firm ABI Research, overall the market is expected to grow with a 10.8 per cent CAGR (2013 to 2018) with less saturated and […]
India’s government is looking at guaranteeing the production on locally manufactured set-top boxes. The scheme under consideration by the country’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting would see 40 per cent of indigenous output “reserved” by the government in a bid to promote local sales. Local production would also soften the blow caused by the plummeting […]
One of India’s major cable MSOs, Manthan, says it will install 3.6 million digital set-top boxes in and around Kolkata and Bengal region during 2014 at a cost of more than $69 million. Manthan’s headquarters are in Kolkata, and one of its directors Sudip Ghosh, said it would be signing an additional $18 million contract […]
Com Hem has confirmed it will launch TiVo this year. Swedish cable operator Com Hem had sales of SEK1.108 billion (€127.3 million) in Q2, down on SEK1.148 billion a year earlier. EBITDA amounted to SEK547 million, compared to SEK541 million. Total connected homes were 1.78 million (+30,000 year-on-year). Unique subscribers amounted to 821,700, down from […]
INSIDE Secure has announced that Korean fabless semiconductor maker Telechips has embedded the INSIDE DRM Fusion Agent solutions for high-bandwidth digital content protection (HDCP) and digital transmission content protection (DTCP-IP) into its newest TCC892X family of set-top box multimedia application processors. Using the INSIDE solutions and a trusted execution environment (TEE) based on the Solacia […]
EKT (Eagle Kingdom Technologies), a leading supplier of advanced STB solutions was selected by Telefónica Czech Republic to supply their new interactive STB solution. Based on an Entropic ARM Cortex A-9 secure integrated circuit (IC) solution, Telefónica’s customers can now experience true HD graphical user interface capabilities together with the latest features in IPTV interactivity. […]
As the popularity of Internet entertainment services grows among consumers, digital lifestyle providers face customer retention challenges and seek to extend bundled service offerings, according to the J.D. Power 2013 Digital Lifestyle Study. The study, now in its second year, examines consumer brand loyalty, propensity to subscribe to digital lifestyle products and preferences for aggregation […]
TiVo has launched the TiVo Roamio DVR, an all-in-one approach to live, recorded, on-demand and OTT television that gives consumers what they want on any screen, wherever they are. “While so many people love TV, they have no idea what TiVo can do for their love of TV. TiVo Roamio is so much more than […]