The Opera TV Store is set to bring hundreds of apps to all TiVo set-top boxes for US cable operator RCN. It is the first pay-TV cable operator to launch Opera Software’s app platform on its TiVo devices, and the first TiVo operator deployment following the partnership to bring the Opera TV Store to TiVo […]
Virgin Media has connected its two millionth TiVo customer since launching the service in December 2010. Commenting on the milestone, Scott Kewley, Virgin Media’s director of digital entertainment, said: “Reaching two million TiVo customers is a huge milestone for us and we’re delighted so many people are enjoying what we believe is the best way […]
TV viewers increasingly are watching programmes on their own schedule, according to a Nielsen study. In the past year, time-shifting of television content grew by almost
Annual increases in mobile online viewing (tablets and smartphones) are higher than any other category. Worldwide mobile views already constitute over 20 per cent of the total (in 2013) and this share will continue to grow – more than doubling during
The latest Australian Multi-Screen Report, covering the third quarter of calendar 2013, shows Australians overwhelmingly prefer live to recorded television, and that they gravitate towards the largest available screen. Overall use of the in-home television set is steady year-on-year, and people’s viewing patterns are broadening with their continued uptake of new and different screen types. […]
The BBC and other broadcasters are planning to cut their investment in the YouView set-top box, leaving BT and TalkTalk as the major shareholders. This is a blow to a platform which was originally created to safeguard the future of FTA television in the UK. YouView has become the fastest growing TV service in the […]
Spanish cable group Ono has revealed that it closed 2013 with a total of 5,234,000 services. In the high-speed segment, Ono added 31.000 new clients in the quarter, reaching a total 811,000. Over 7,000 new customers added in the last quarter bring the total to 1,868,000 at December 31st 2013. In broadband, the operator closed […]
A Harris Poll finds that while roughly two-thirds (68 per cent) of US adults went to the movies at least once in 2013, just about the same per cent (66 per cent) say they’re going to the movies less often now than a few years ago. Americans report going to
Findings released at International CES by TiVo suggest that streaming to mobile devices among its subscriber base is on the rise and driving longer periods of engagement on second screens, an increase directly related to the launch of TiVo Roamio in August of 2013, with recorded shows leading the way as the streaming content of […]
TiVo, the DVR specialist, has demonstrated a Network DVR (NDVR) next generation cloud television prototype at CES. “It may surprise people to learn just how many of TiVo’s features are already delivered from the cloud but storage in the cloud is the easy part. TiVo is making it easy both for the consumer and the […]