The US Solicitor General Elena Kagan has sided with Cablevision in the cable operator’s long-running dispute with several programme-makers over the roll-out of its network-based video recorder. Kagan denied plaintiffs including News Corp, CBS Corp and Walt Disney Co, their petition for a Supreme Court hearing. The media companies have argued that Cablevision’s proposed service […]
TiVo posted its second straight quarterly loss on Wednesday, but it was smaller than expected as the company reined in costs to offset sliding revenue and slowing user growth. The company said it swung to a net loss of $4.1 million from a profit of $3.6 million a year earlier. Revenue in the period, which […]
By 2013, the average household will have 2.5 times as many digital media devices (computing, gaming, digital consumer electronics, portable and mobile wireless devices) in use as in 2008, according to In-Stat. Accompanying this adoption will be a rise in the number of these devices that are network-enabled, leveraging various wired mediums and wireless technologies, […]
From Colin Mann in Cologne The two largest independent German cable operators, Tele Columbus and PrimaCom, revealed at ANGA Cable that they have selected NDS's secure, integrated DVR solution XTV to launch a high definition (HD) DVR service across their cable networks, marking the first such deployment in Germany NDS XTV will enable Tele Columbus […]
Despite threats from programmers that network DVRs violate their copyrights, Cablevision plans to begin offering its Remote Storage-DVR this summer. According to programmers the technology essentially turns their content into VOD offerings, diminishing the value of linear programming and the advertising that goes with it. What’s more, the simplicity of the network DVR will just […]
From Colin Mann in Cologne NDS and EPG specialist Axel Springer Digital TV Guide are teaming up to promote personal TV – representing today's rich TV viewing experience enabled by t digital video recorders and electronic programme guides– to Germany's broadcasting, pay-TV and cable providers. In addition, the pair will share how today's advanced TV […]
The US Consumer Electronics Association released a study finding that the average U.S. household spent $1,229 on consumer electronics in the past year, a drop of $176 from the same period last year. According to the survey, “the 11th Annual Household CE Ownership and Market Potential Study,” men spent an average of $902 while women […]
Video search engine blinkx has struck a deal with interactive TV company Miniweb that will see its services become available on digital set-top boxes in the UK. The deal will significantly widen the audience for blinkx’s search offering, which indexes a range of online video content, including content from YouTube and the various web TV […]
TiVo plans to begin this summer to provide anonymous, second-by-second ratings data for programmes and commercials airing in local U.S. markets, which the company says will provide greater granularity than current ratings samples from Nielsen and other measurement firms. The new “StopWatch Local Markets” service will only launch in a handful of markets–at least three, […]
DVR solutions specialist TiVo has reported that primetime programming which aired during the 8pm and 9pm timeslots in the US in February experienced a marked increase in timeshifted viewing over programmes in the 10pm hour, as viewed by TiVo service subscribers. According to its StopWatch ratings service, an analysis of broadcast networks ABC, CBS, FOX […]