Verizon has unveiled the next generation of its all-fibre-optic FiOS TV The company used customer feedback gained from its product development labs, field trials and social media forums to create many of the more than 25 upgrades to FiOS TV’s advanced Interactive Media Guide. The enhancements include 3D content software, which automatically detects when a […]
The European Court of Justice has agreed with British Sky Broadcasting and overturned the UK tax authority’s classification of a PVR and, thereby, exempted it from import duty. The Inland Revenue had classified PVRs as recording devices subject to 13.9 per cent import duty (virtually all PVRs are made in China). However, the ECJ in […]
EchoStar Europe have unveilled their SlingLoaded HDS-600RS, a HD digital video recorder (DVR) to combine Freesat+ features with Sling Media’s place-shifting ability, enabling TV anywhere, on all popular smartphones and tablets. The SlingLoaded feature enables users to watch and manage their live and recorded TV remotely anytime, anywhere, via 3G or Wi-Fi, with no additional […]
TiVo shares fell back 3.4 per cent (to $8.75) after telling shareholders that it was offering $120 million in convertible senior notes to investment institutions. The notes are due 2016. Worryingly for shareholders, TiVo said it would use the fresh cash for R&D but also to fund its ongoing litigation and challenges to its intellectual […]
TiVo has revealed that its Q4 net loss more than tripled after the company dumped deep-discount digital video recorder boxes during the holiday season and racked up legal fees in a series of patent disputes. TiVo reduced its entry-level box price from $300 to $100, and the top-tier Premiere XL box from $500 to $300 […]
Eurostar and Pace have been appointed by Etisalat to enable delivery of digital TV services to its customers. To enable the rollout of Etisalat’s eLife triple play services through the fibre-optic network, Pace has developed HD PVR STBs and Advanced Residential Gateway solutions. Etisalat’s eLife triple play services give customers the opportunity to experience value […]
The addition of HDTV channels and PVR capabilities are giving a new boost to Spain’s digital satellite platform Digital Plus. As a whole, the company added 29,468 new clients in January in comparison with a loss of over 15,000 subscribers the same period last year. Out of the total growth, 10,662 new subs are to […]
Now I’ve got your attention I’ll explain. A session here at Cable Congress posed the question what should operator’s digital home strategies be? No surprise that everybody nodded enthusiastically to enabling the home network, developing the Set Top as the home gateway and delivering ‘blow me away’ user interfaces. But panellists also admitted that this […]
The revised year-end 2016 forecast for DVR Subscriber Households now stands at 61.8 million (50 per cent of TV households), up from 37.9 million (32 per cent of TV households) as of the end of Q3 2010. By 2016, it is expected that VOD (redefined to include OTT services like Netflix, Vudu and Hulu) will […]
Microsoft has filed a US trade complaint seeking to prevent TiVo from importing television set-top boxes. The complaint submitted to the US International Trade Commission in Washington accuses TiVo of infringing four patents. Microsoft is asking that TiVo be barred from importing the digital-video recorders, which are primarily made in Mexico and sold in the […]