BT has confirmed it will not be using YouView boxes from Pace. BT has terminated a deal with Pace to supply it with set-top boxes, although the UK based technology company will continue to deliver BT Vision hybrid boxes. BT launched its YouView offering, which offers connected TV services in October with boxes supplied by […]
Google is closing its auction of Motorola’s set-top box business, reports The Wall Street Journal. The company had set a deadline of December 7 for the last round of bids, according to three people involved in the process. Google August 2012 hired Barclays Plc to seek buyers for Motorola, which has been losing market share […]
Not for the first time rumours swirl on Wall St about TiVo being a buy target. Now it is Google’s name that is in the frame as the potential buyer and it’s because of TiVo’s suit against Google-owned Motorola Mobility over alleged patent infringements. Investment bankers Janney Capital’s analyst Tony Wible has tracked the latest […]
Fifteen industry-leading multichannel video providers and device manufacturers that deliver service to more than 90 million American households are launching an unprecedented Set-Top Box Energy Conservation Agreement that will result in annual residential electricity savings of $1.5 billion or more as the commitment is fully realised, US industry trade bodies the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) […]
Intel Corporation has joined the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) as a Promoter member. Jim Crammond, Chief Technology Officer of Gateway Solutions within Intel’s Service Provider Division, will represent Intel on the Board of Directors. Intel has been a Contributor level member for a number of years and has been instrumental in helping the Alliance […]
Gerry O’Sullivan, SVP Global TV and Entertainment at Deutsche Telekom, has called on pay-TV operators to cut down ‘sacred cows’ and consider future business models which do not rely on hardware in subscriber households. Delivering a keynote speech at The Digital TV Summit in London, O’Sullivan told delegates: “I’d like to see no hardware in […]
More proof that DVRs have entered the mainstream has emerged with fresh consumer research from Leichtman Research Group. The research and analyst firm found that 52 per cent of households in the US that subscribe to a multi-channel video service have a Digital Video Recorder (DVR), compared to 4 per cent of TV households that […]
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filings in the US have revealed new Google TV devices from Netgear and Asus. While the testing documents for the Netgear STB – tentatively called the NeoTV Prime – don’t show the device that plugs in to the TV, it does reveal a Bluetooth-connected, Qwerty keyboard remote with a trackpad. The […]
A Texas federal judge has refused to throw out TiVo’s patent claims against Time Warner Cable. The claim centres on Time Warner’s distribution of Motorola Mobility’s set-top boxes where TiVo argues its patents have been violated. Time Warner had counter-sued, and it was this action which the Texas judge declined. The core case has been […]
PVR specialist TiVo has reported a very healthy set of Q3 numbers with excellent subscriber growth as well as a strong revenue pile from litigation successes. It declared that it now has almost 3 million subscribers, helped by a further 250,000 net gains from deals struck with cable MSOs. TiVo explained that it is working […]