Entertainment technology and audience insights specialist TiVo has revealed it is exploring a range of strategic alternatives to realise long-term shareholder value. These options range from transformative acquisitions that would accelerate its growth, to combining the business with other leading players, to becoming a private company. The Company has engaged LionTree Advisors to assist the […]
Sky has announced the next stage in the development of its Sky Q home entertainment platform. Beginning in March 2018, Sky will progressively roll out product features that it says will make the Sky Q experience even better. At the same time, Sky Group is announcing a new partnership with the music subscription service Spotify. […]
UK multiplay telco Virgin Media is offering existing Virgin TV customers a free upgrade to its V6 box, giving them access to what the operator says is the very-best connected entertainment experience alongside ultrafast broadband. In what is one of the largest customer upgrade programmes ever carried out in the UK, Virgin Media is accelerating […]
DISH has released Hopper Duo in the US, a dual-tuner HD set-top solution for one and two-TV households. Hopper Duo packages the most essential features of DISH’s Hopper 3 for customers with smaller-scale entertainment setups. “The average US home has about two TVs connected to a pay-TV service,” said Niraj Desai vice DISH vice president […]
TiVo has announced the launch of its Next-Gen Platform – a future-proof solution that enables operators to effectively adapt to a rapidly changing market and emerging customer segments with a complete set of unified products and versatile deployment options across QAM, hybrid and IPTV. Powered by cloud services for rapid innovation, the platform delivers high feature […]
Reports from Wall Street suggest that entertainment technology and audience insights specialist TiVo might be in play. Numerous reports say that private equity buyers are looking at TiVo and its valuable royalty assets. December 29th saw its share price rocket by 11.4 per cent to $14.05 (€11.67) although this price remains well down on its position […]
UK live-streaming TV service TVPlayer has announced what is says us a UK first with the launch of its new recording feature: enabling online TV viewers to record in the cloud. The launch of the network personal video recorder (nPVR) service marks a key development for TVPlayer, with the platform now being able to supplement […]
Video solutions innovator SeaChange International has announced its Adrenalin multiscreen video solution has been selected as a key element of Liberty Global’s next-generation video platform supporting its Horizon 4 services. Liberty Global, the international TV and broadband company, provides video services to viewers across Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. Deploying a common, fully virtualised video […]
A survey of consumers over the past year in Europe and the US, by S&P Global Market Intelligence, has revealed that the vast majority of Internet households view online video on their in-home TVs. Yet, the devices consumers prefer to use to deliver online video content to the TV varies substantially in Europe and the […]
Sky Italia has launched the Sky Q platform that allows customers to watch linear content, on-demand and recorded, on multiple TV sets and cable-free devices. The Sky Q Platinum digital box, which connects to the satellite TV dish and the Internet, connects all home screens without any extra cables. It communicates wirelessly with other TV […]