Virgin Media is happy to limit the apps available on TiVo, insisting quality is more important than quantity. COO Andrew Barron told analysts: They will be heavyweight apps, not just fodder. It’s easy to publish all sorts of things to it, because it’s got Flash – but we want to the real heavyweights.” Virgin claimed […]
Advanced television services and DVR specialist TiVo has confirmed the nationwide availability of the TiVo HD DVR from DirecTV in the US, which enables DirecTV customers to once again enjoy the TiVo service seamlessly integrated with their DirecTV service. “We are pleased to answer the call of TiVo fans by making the new TiVo HD […]
Barely a week goes by without someone suggesting that DVR manufacturer TiVo is about to be taken over. Assorted names have been mentioned, not least one or other of the EchoStar family of companies, in EchoStar’s case if only to bring the – now ended – IP litigation to an end. Other would-be ‘buyers’ have […]
Genexis – a European market specialist in home gateways for fibre-to-the-home – has acquired the CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) business unit of PacketFront. All activities of the business unit will be fully integrated into Genexis and its new subsidiary – Genexis AB – based in Stockholm, Sweden. “This acquisition marks an important step in Genexis’ […]
Technicolor has reached a milestone by selling 10 million Digital Transport Adapters (DTAs) to North American cable operators. Technicolor’s DTA is a one-way cable set-top-box that enables cable operators to move to an all-digital infrastructure quickly and cost-efficiently by delivering digital-quality video and audio service to existing analogue cable customers. The product was designed in […]
AirTies Wireless Networks has confirmed it will deliver OTT STBs to Digiturk, Turkey’s largest satellite operator, targeting Turks abroad. The AirTies and Digiturk partnership makes DigiturkWebTV’s premium content and LigTv HD available to subscribers abroad in real time, VoD and playback up to 12 hours after initial screening. Subscribers abroad can adjust the broadcast schedule […]
According to research from Futuresource Consulting, of the 600 million global broadband homes at the end of 2011, 400 million deployed home networking technology. By 2015, expectations are for 650 million of the 700 million broadband homes to be interacting with networked devices. Growth for broadband equipment including modems and new generation digital media gateways […]
Hybrid STBs are a fast-growing segment of the worldwide STB market says NPD In-Stat. The boxes include a TV tuner and an Internet connection. Hybrid STBs are appearing in all service categories and new usage models and applications have provided momentum. As television services begin employing applications that are Internet-connected, hybrid STBs are emerging as […]
Linear TV viewing in the UK matched the record level it set in 2010, with commercial TV increasing its share of total viewing to 64 per cent in 2011, according to Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK. The average viewer watched 4 hours, 2 minutes of linear TV a day in […]
Venezuela has selected the Japan/Brazilian ISDB-T variant for its digital terrestrial TV broadcasts. President Hugo Chavez has now signed off on the project which allows local set-top box production to begin. Chavez received a high-profile delegation last week led by Argentina’s Minister of Infrastructure, Julio de Vido, who showed the Venezuelans examples of set-top boxes, […]