Hybrid TV and Connected Home solutions specialist Entone is teaming up with advanced television services pioneer TiVo, to offer an integrated solution for IPTV operators that combines Entone’s hybrid IPTV devices with the TiVo user experience. The partnership aims to give service providers greater deployment flexibility and improved economics and provides for integration with TiVo’s […]
Opera Software and TiVo have announced a technology integration to enhance the power of web technologies on TiVo devices with the Opera Devices SDK, as well as open up the world of HTML5 TV apps through the Opera TV Store. This partnership will enable TiVo to bring the latest web and HTML5 content to cable […]
BSkyB has revealed that its new Sky+HD and Sky+HD 2TB boxes are both now available with built-in Wi-Fi for the first time. The new Sky+HD and Sky+HD 2TB personal video recorders (PVR) connect wirelessly to a home Wi-Fi network. Once connected, customers can instantly access Sky’s On Demand service, including up to the last 30 […]
DVR specialist TiVo turned in excellent numbers for its Q2 trading period, with revenue just topping $100 million, and about $30 million better than most analysts had expected. TiVo’s subs numbers are also at a record high, at 3.6 million (33 per cent up y-o-y), and even churn (at 1.5 per cent/month) is better than […]
Com Hem has confirmed it will launch TiVo this year. Swedish cable operator Com Hem had sales of SEK1.108 billion (€127.3 million) in Q2, down on SEK1.148 billion a year earlier. EBITDA amounted to SEK547 million, compared to SEK541 million. Total connected homes were 1.78 million (+30,000 year-on-year). Unique subscribers amounted to 821,700, down from […]
TiVo has launched the TiVo Roamio DVR, an all-in-one approach to live, recorded, on-demand and OTT television that gives consumers what they want on any screen, wherever they are. “While so many people love TV, they have no idea what TiVo can do for their love of TV. TiVo Roamio is so much more than […]
TELUS is launching a new wireless digital box for Optik TV subscribers, giving customers the freedom to move their TV anywhere in the home – or yard – without the need to plug it into a TV outlet. This means Optik customers can rearrange the room without tripping over cords, move the TV to the […]
In the wake of US DTH satellite pay-TV operators DirecTV and Dish reporting subscriber numbers for the second quarter of 2013, analysis from SNL Kagan unit Multimedia Research Group suggests that subscriber declines are not necessarily hurting set-top box suppliers. According to Michelle Abraham, Senior Research Analyst at SNL Kagan,
TiVo Research and Analytics, the largest provider of single-source TV viewing and purchase data for advertisers and networks, announced the addition of Sheryl Harkins, previously a 17 year veteran with Nielsen, as its SVP of CPG Sales. TRA launched its leading single-source advertising optimization solution in 2008 and since then has served over 45 […]
Time Warner Cable is to be handed two Emmy Awards for Technology and Engineering for 2013 for network DVRs and video-on-demand dynamic ad insertion. TiVo was awarded for its personalisation and video search platform. One TWC award recognised the MSO’s “Pioneering Work in Implementation and Deployment of a Network DVR”, with that work going back […]