DVR specialist TiVo is continuing to make inroads into European pay-TV operators with the announcement that Com Hem, a Swedish supplier of pay-TV, broadband and fixed-telephony, is to use TiVo’s personalised television entertainment solution for its IPTV platform, the first such deployment for TiVo. The offering will deliver seamless access to traditional television content, VoD […]
Accessories giant Belkin will introduce its own place-shifting device, called @TV in July, and in direct competition to EchoStar’s Sling Media range of products. @TV will retail in the USA at $149. Belkin says it will also supply a $12.99 iPhone/iPad and Android ‘App’ that allows Smart-phone users to watch live and recorded programming from […]
Targeted television advertising specialist Simulmedia and DVR pioneer TiVo have expanded their set-top box data partnership deploying datasets better to address what is seen as TV’s growing audience fragmentation problem. Simulmedia will use TiVo’s anonymous, aggregated, second-by-second set-top-box data to expand Simulmedia’s endemic client base beyond tune-in/promotional advertisers and drive cost-effective reach across all advertiser […]
Mike Fries, President and CEO of Liberty Global, has revealed that the cable MSOs ‘Horizon’ gateway set-top box is set to be launched in the German market in the first quarter of 2013. Describing the product as a “game-changer for our industry” Fries told ANGA Cable TV Summit delegates that the German launch would follow […]
TiVo has hit back at Cisco, which issued its own legal challenges against the DVR specialist last week, by mounting its own legal counter-suits over IP rights. Cisco is arguing that the US courts should void certain TiVo-claimed patents, and thus enable Cisco – and in particular its former Scientific Atlanta set-top box division – […]
Following confirmation at the end of May 2012 that UK Internet TV venture YouView would be undergoing public testing prior to commercial launch, a YouView-compliant set-top box has been included in the Summer 2012 Technology brochure from UK High Street retailer John Lewis. Listed in the catalogue as “Coming Soon”, the Humax-produced device is priced […]
Electronics giant Cisco has fired off a major salvo against DVR specialist TiVo. Normally it is TiVo doing the suing, arguing that its patents have been copied or unfairly used. However, this action from Cisco, which, amongst other significant assets, owns the former Scientific Atlanta operation and is in the process of acquiring TV payment […]
TiVo has reported another quarterly loss, larger than expected, and reversing the profits reported a year ago for the same quarter, citing rising legal costs. TiVo history for some years has been of doing all it can to maintain its IP rights and it has scored several victories over heavyweight rivals and thus retained those […]
DISH and the TV networks ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC are going to court on the legality of the introduction of a user-enabled commercial skipping technology branded AutoHop. DISH wants a declaratory judgment (for which it has filed in New York) while the networks are claiming (in the California court) that the device breaches their […]
As the number of connected media devices grows, home networking will continue to gain importance in consumers’ expanding digital lifestyle. By 2014, shipments of core home networking equipment (home gateways/routers, adapters, bridges, NICs, embedded LAN, NAS) and networked-enabled media devices (CE devices with network connectivity, excluding computers and mobile devices) will exceed one billion units […]