Shares of TiVo Inc. raced ahead after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office backed the validity of its patent on technology that allows viewers to rewind, pause or fast-forward live TV. TiVo said the patent office reaffirmed the validity of the “time warp” patent after EchoStar Corp. asked for a reexamination. TiVo said the decision […]
TiVo and streaming player Roku have both announced content partnerships with Hulu Plus, the new subscription model online TV service. Both will make a Hulu Plus channel available to subscribers in the coming months for a $9.99 subscription fee. “We’re thrilled to be able to provide Hulu Plus subscribers with the most inexpensive device to […]
Tom Rogers, CEO at TiVo, says its long-running legal battles with EchoStar and its Dish Network sister company will likely end in February or March 2011. The DVR manufacturer has been locked in a tight legal embrace with EchoStar since 2004 when TiVo accused satellite TV provider EchoStar’s Dish Network system of violating TiVo’s patent […]
SES Astra has announced that the Belgian telecom provider Mobistar has launched a new “Mobistar TV” offer that will include digital and HD TV channels received from the Astra satellites. The satellite TV offer, including Flemish national channels and a wide range of European free-to-air channels, will be integrated into a fully-hybrid DSL/ DTH solution, […]
TiVo, the specialist in advanced television services has joined MoCA, the worldwide standard for home entertainment networking, as an Associate level member. TiVo pioneered the DVR and engages multiple channels for distribution of its products including retail and service provider. MoCA has seen deployment of its technology in multiroom DVR among all three pay TV […]
UPC Nederland has demonstrated its new ‘Remote Recording’ application. This will allow UPC Digital TV customers, when they are traveling or online at work to set up recording on their UPC Media boxes from their iPhone, iPad, other mobile browsers or online. ‘Remote Recording’ is available as a free service to customers. The service has […]
Advanced television services and PVR specialist Tivo and Samsung Electronics have teamed to develop an advanced, TiVo-ready, high definition PVR set-top box for digital video broadcasting (DVB) operators. To bring this new PVR set-top box offering to market, Samsung has licensed TiVo’s Hardware Porting Kit and will work with TiVo to build a TiVo […]
EchoStar Europe announced has debuted what it considers to be the slimmest digital video recorder (DVR) in the world. The state-of-the-art case houses all the technology you’d expect from a high-end DVR including solid state recording and conditional access, and while measuring just 9mm in height, it is a fraction of the size of other […]
Flash memory card specialist SanDisk and digital pay-TV technology solutions provider NDS have successfully combined NDS MediaHighway set-top box (STB) software and SanDisk P4 solid state drives (SSD) to enable a new range of lower cost set-top box (STB) with DVR like functionality. By provisioning a STB with a small amount of storage, operators can […]
The Set Top Box has been key to all new television developments in the last 20 years but has it had its day? Will functionality migrate to the Cloud leaving the STB as a ‘dumb’ thin client, or does a new future as the home gateway and hub of the smart home await?