The growing number of smart homes is an emerging trend in the digital video recorder (DVR) market. In developed nations such as the US and the UK, many homes are upgrading into smart homes. A smart home connects CE devices, media and entertainment gadgets, and other smart electronics together into an interactive home network. DVRs […]
TiVo might be losing its CEO, Tom Rogers, next February but he is departing on a ‘high’ with y-o-y subs numbers at an all-time high – both domestically in the US and internationally. Rogers, in a post-results call with analysts, stressed he will be staying on as TiVo’s largest individual shareholder, and Chairman. Rogers has […]
Findings from cross-media consumption data technology and research firm Symphony Advanced Media (SymphonyAM) monitoring the autumn television season suggest that Millennials only watch live TV 30 per cent of the time, with an additional 30 per cent of their time spent viewing programmes via OTT, VoD beyond 3 and DVR platforms beyond 7. Additionally, SymphonyAM’s […]
Describing it as “the biggest reimagining of Sky in its history”, Jeremy Darroch, CEO of the UK pay-TV operator, has launched Sky Q, a family of products which it says are designed to reflect the way people consume content nowadays. It also confirmed that Sky Q would be UltraHD ready in advance of the launch […]
Tom Rogers, CEO of TiVo, is to relinquish his position after nearly 11 years on January 31st 2016, the end of the company’s fiscal year. Rogers will continue with TiVo as non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors as of February 1, 2016. TiVo’s Board of Directors has formed a search committee to identify the […]
Cubiware, a subsidiary of TiVo, announced that its CubiTV hybrid middleware has been selected by Multimedia Polska, one of Poland’s leading cable operators, for delivery of digital video broadcast via Cubiware-enabled set-top boxes and portal server across Poland. Initial capabilities enabled by the Cubiware STBs include high definition digital video and PVR recording. The inclusion […]
TiVo has surpassed 4 million international subscriptions through its traditional TiVo offering. According to TiVo, this represents an important milestone in its international growth and comes as the result of accelerated subscription growth in Europe through customers such as Virgin Media/Liberty Global in the UK, ONO/Vodafone in Spain, and Com Hem in Sweden – each […]
More than 20 per cent of broadband households with Internet-connected CE use streaming media players the most for online video Connected CE research from Parks Associates finds a steadily increasing number of US broadband households are turning to a streaming media player first when looking for online content. Currently, 21 per cent of US broadband households with […]
Cable MSO Charter Communications is testing a new ‘remote DVR’, according to an FCC filing from Cisco in support of the proposed Charter/Time Warner Cable merger. Cisco and Charter Communications, the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, entered into a strategic agreement January 2015 through which Cisco will supply key products in support of […]
@IBC Advanced Television talks to Altech’s Bartolomeo Caputo about the South African company’s portfolio including end-to-end solutions and integration services and its main markets in Africa, Middle East and APAC. [bitsontherun BhSOLFrt-ni7dlelE]