Entertainment technology and audience insights specialist TiVo is showcasing its latest addition to the TiVo BOLT family, the TiVo BOLT+, at home technology show CEDIA 2016 in Dallas. The TiVo BOLT+ includes six tuners, 3TB of recording capacity, and a new black chassis, creating what the company describes as the “ultimate” multi-room video experience for […]
In a joint mission to make content more easily accessible for the user and to bring back the joy into navigation, ruwido is pleased to be working in partnership with TiVo. TiVo has decades of experience in shaping, designing and managing entertainment discovery. TiVo offers flexible advanced search, dynamic, personalized recommendations and natural-language voice-control capabilities […]
Rovi has closed its $1.1 billion acquisition of TiVo, and the new company will become TiVo. Tom Carson, president and CEO of the newly combined business, said the deal “passed with flying colors” during shareholder meetings and said company will now move forward to act on assumptions that went into the integration planning phase. “The […]
Rovi has tapped former Ericsson exec, Pete Thompson, as its new COO to oversee the integration of TiVo. The former SVP of Ericsson’s Mediaroom Business Group, Thompson will report to Rovi CEO Tom Carson. Based in TiVo’s office in San Jose, Thomson will oversee the integration after Rovi agreed to buy TiVo for $1.1 billion […]
TiVo, now close to finalising its take-over by Rovi (likely to wrap this coming week), stated that at the end of July it had 7.4 million TiVo subscribers (made up of 971,000 of Tivo-owned subs, and 6.38 million via MSOs). However, despite the impending take-over by Rovi Corp, Tivo still has a slew of legal […]
UK cable MSO Virgin Media has started a major new platform update for its TV customers. The update, which will see all Virgin Media TiVo boxes updated automatically over the next few weeks, will give the existing box some fresh new features to help search, find and save content on the service. Virgin Media TV […]
Consumers saved approximately $646 million (€578m) in energy costs in 2015 as a result of the voluntary set-top box energy conservation agreement among pay-TV providers, consumer technology manufacturers and energy efficiency advocates. A report by independent auditor D+R International found that more than 3.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were prevented in […]
EchoStar’s CEO Mike Dugan, speaking at the company’s Q2 earnings call, said EchoStar’s speciality products division, ETC, was discontinuing its SAGE home automation and security products. “Although the product had a number of ground-breaking features, a dramatic change in the competitive landscape, heavily impacted our chance of this product producing a significant positive long-term results […]
According to just-released GfK MRI research, binge viewing is more than mainstream; it is prevalent, with almost 6 in 10 (57 per cent) TV viewers saying they have regularly watched three or more episodes of the same show in one sitting – whether that be via streaming, DVR, VoD or TV marathons. Regular binge viewing […]
Connected service Sky+ has introduced its new homepage design introduced to help customers discover even more TV to watch. The latest update adds editorial Top Picks to the Sky+ Homepage. The new section gives customers’ recommendations on the best new TV from entertainment channels such as Sky Atlantic and Fox. Additionally, depending on customers’ subscriptions […]