DVR pioneer and advanced television services specialist TiVo has enabled out-of-home (OOH) streaming on the TiVo Roamio Pro and TiVo Roamio Plus DVRs, allowing users to stream and download live TV and recorded content to smartphones and tablets from anywhere. “Until now, your shows have been locked up in your set-top box at home,” said […]
A national survey conducted by AlphaWise and quoted by Morgan Stanley, states that enthusiasm for UK free-to-view digital service YouView has tumbled. “The proportion of consumers indicating that they are very/somewhat likely to adopt YouView has fallen from 14 per cent to 9 per cent since May,” says AlphaWise. AlphaWise concludes that they continue to […]
Humax, the digital set-top box provider, has launched its latest Freeview +HD box, giving subscription-free access to all Freeview TV and radio channels, including HD programmes, advanced recording features and on-demand content and apps. The Humax HDR-2000T digital TV recorder, with an RRP of £179, offers advanced TV features and apps to watch, record and […]
Aereo, the controversial provider of over-the-air TV channels to laptops and mobile devices for $8 per month, will be available for Android devices in September, and the app will appear in the Google play store on October 22nd. Aereo is currently available to Apple users in a handful of US cities, including New York and Boston, where […]
More than 8 billion Internet-connected video devices will be installed worldwide in 2017, exceeding the population of the planet, according to research from the Broadband Technology Service at IHS. The installed base of video-enabled devices that are connected to the Internet — a category that includes diverse product such as tablets, smart TVs, games consoles, […]
Sky+ is making it even easier for customers to find content with the latest update to its Sky+HD box. The new search functionality, which is being rolled out to customers over the coming months, lets them search by title, actor, event, channel, sport or any key word. The updated Search uses technology that collates results […]
TiVo’s CEO Tom Rogers has slammed his major rivals (Dish, DirecTV and some major cable MSOs) as providing second-rate digital video recorders. He accused them of not being “leading innovators”. Rogers was speaking at a Goldman Sachs media conference in New York. He said that while some of the US giants have the scale and […]
A US District Court in California has denied a preliminary injunction application by Fox Broadcasting to block DISH’s Hopper and its DISH Anywhere and Hopper video transfer services. DISH’s EVP/General Counsel, R. Stanton Dodge, in a statement, said: “Today’s decision is the fourth in a string of victories for consumers related to our Hopper Whole-Home […]
Liberty Global’s UPC operations that have implemented its Horizon DVR are mailing 270,000+ remotes to accompany a firmware and software upgrade for version one aimed at debugging the system. Liberty’s Peter Dorr, managing director, strategic marketing, sales and customer care, told CTAM in Barcelona it would have been naïve to think such a system could […]
A US district court judge has ruled that DTH broadcaster Dish can continue to use its AutoHop and PrimeTime Anytime features on its ‘Hopper’ DVR, and refused network broadcaster ABC’s application to bar the applications when viewing its channels. Judge Laura Swain of the Southern District of New York, United States District Court, ruled in […]