Maximum areal densities in hard disk drives (HDD) are expected to more than double during the five-year period from 2011 to 2016, spurring continued growth for HDDs in storage-intensive applications such as video and audio systems, according to IHS iSuppli. HDD areal densities measuring data-storage capacities are projected to climb to a maximum 1,800 Gigabits […]
At The Cable Show, TiVo has announced two major enhancements to its whole-home viewing solution. Its IP set-top box, delivers the TiVo experience on secondary televisions throughout the home. TiVo Stream, provides transcoding to enable content viewing on mobile devices. Through these new products, operators working with TiVo can give their subscribers the content they […]
Spain’s largest cable company ONO has launched a massive campaign to boost subscriptions to its advanced service TiVo, now with just 16,000 clients. The campaign called ‘I love TiVo’ offers significant discounts to current subscribers who successfully recommend TiVo to friends or relatives. Those subscribers who secure a new TiVo client for ONO will be granted […]
US Dish satellite subscribers will now get feature giving the choice to automatically skip over commercials. The new ‘Auto Hop’ capability for the Hopper whole-home HD DVR system is being activated this week, and it allows customers to skip all commercials for most recorded primetime HD programmes shown on ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC when […]
Spain’s largest cable company ONO ended the first quarter with a net benefit of €15 million, up 66.2 per cent, over total revenues of €383 million, up 5 per cent with EBITDA growing by 4 per cent to €186 million. ONO’s TiVo service is increasingly growing with now 16,000 clients. Today, 60 per cent of […]
EchoStar, a supplier of connected device solutions to the digital TV industry, has launched what it claims is the world’s slimmest digital TV recorder for the UK’s Freeview service. The Ultra Slim Box (HDT-610R) houses a wealth of smart features inside a sleek, 14mm aluminium chassis, and is available on pre-order from Amazon, John Lewis […]
Fetch TV STBs will lose Sky’s on-demand video service Sky Go next month, despite finding a new home. Fetch TV, a Freeview+ HD recorder with on-demand services, went into administration in January but has now been bought by online entertainment service ShopTo.net. However, Sky has chosen not to renew its contract from the new owner, […]
A technology start-up is introducing a way to move a whole subscription’s worth of TV onto the Web, with or without the subscription company’s permission. The service takes the package of television channels that a customer buys through a distributor then streams the package onto the Web, allowing the customer more options for viewing than […]
The end of analogue broadcasting (on April 30) has led to a boom in the supply and purchase of digital set-top boxes. Market research specialist GfK says that in the year to March 31st, sales are up 24 per cent, with January generating record sales up 60 per cent (y-o-y). Flat-panel TVs with built-in digital […]
Samsung Canada is enhancing the way Videotron customers watch TV with the launch of two new set top boxes – the Samsung HD box and the HD PVR. Both products will be available exclusively through Videotron, in support of their next generation illico digital TV service. The advanced features of Samsung set-top boxes provide illico […]