Australian free-to-air television network have reached an impasse on ad-skipping personal video recorders as they prepare to release a free electronic programme guide for the first time. Despite releasing the guide, the industry is pressuring PVR makers to limit the advertisement-skipping functions of their products before they are authorised to access it. The networks have […]
Pace Micro Technology, independent developer of digital TV technologies for the global pay TV industry, has selected PartnerTech, one of Europe's leading contract manufacturing companies, to provide a fast-turnaround new product introduction (NPI) and prototyping service covering its range of digital set-top boxes. The business will be fulfilled from PartnerTech's UK facilities in Poole and […]
Top Up TV has revealed the results of a customer survey that revealed 57 per cent of its customers regularly use their Digital Television Recorder (DTR) to time-shift more than 50 per cent of the programmes they watch. “Our customers are time-shifting more than ever before… People want their TV viewing to fit in with […]
NDS has introduced its HD DVR, an Amino AmiNET530 set-top box powered by Metro middleware, for the IPTV market. NDS Metro is an integrated IPTV middleware and conditional access solution that provides a complete end-to-end offering for telecommunications companies and broadband operators. SES Americom, the only company delivering MPEG4 IPTV service to telcos in the […]
Mike McTighe, Chairman of Pace Micro Technology said “I am pleased to say that Pace is on track to meet the Board's recently revised expectations for the shortened 2007 financial year. As previously stated this strong performance is due to us exceeding margin improvement targets across the range of Pace's set-top box products following management […]
Advertisers have had their first look at new TV ratings that track how many people stay tuned to commercials. Commercial ratings – i.e. how many actually watched the commercial rather than the programme it was in – also include viewers with digital video recorders who watch ads up to three days after the initial airing. […]
The Nielsen Company has reported that television watching in the US during the 2006-2007 television year (18 September 2006 to 23 September 2007) remained at the record levels set the previous year. The number of homes with Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) more than doubled. According to Nielsen the total average time a household had a […]
Top UP TV, provider of TV content on Freeview, has advised that awareness of digital switchover is widespread. However, despite this, according to Digital UK 35 per cent of the UK population people still do not realise that they will need to update their analogue VCRs. People have already begun to replace their primary TVs […]
As revenue from standard STB (Set-top Box) sales declines along with demand in the period 2008 to 2012, STB vendors will initially rely on firmer markets for DBS (Digital Broadcast Satellite), IPTV, and DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television) STBs. However, according to a study from ABI Research, by the end of the decade even those sectors […]
Comcast and TiVo have started rolling out TiVo-enabled Comcast digital video recorders. The companies said in a joint statement that the service will be rolled out to customers over the next few months. TiVo, which makes its own branded digital video recorders, first signed an agreement with Comcast in March 2005 to enable the cable […]