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TiVo launches Audience Management Platform, SongConnect
TiVo has launched an Audience Measurement Platform for ad optimisation and a music metadata package called SongConnect. The Audience Management Platform (AMP) is a data-agnostic organisation designed to let media planners and service providers do data-driven audience targeting and more constructive ad inventory allocation. “With the Audience Management Platform, media executives are equipped with the tools […]
Netflix to license TiVo technology under new bargain
TV technology provider TiVo has struck new production and intellectual property agreements with Netflix that will come across TiVo go along to integrate Netflix into its set-top boxes and volition, additionally, see Netflix license TiVo’s engineering for its OTT service. The IPR agreement understanding represents i of the first licenses granted nether the exclusive partnership with Intellectual […]
Digitalsmiths: iii fifths of Usa viewers watch SVOD daily
Some 61.1% of viewers watch over-the-acme or subscription video-on-demand content as part of their daily viewing behaviour, according to TiVo-endemic Digitalsmiths. The 15th edition of Digitalsmiths’ Video Trends Written report, which polled viewers in the US and Canada, claims that on a daily basis 69.5% of viewers scout previously recorded Goggle box and 85.7% watch live Boob tube […]
TiVo agrees worldwide IP deal with Samsung
TiVo and Samsung have agreed the terms of a wide intellectual property licence, suspending all awaiting patent litigation between the 2 companies. The bargain will provide certain rights under TiVo’s patent portfolios for Samsung’due south mobile, consumer electronic and set-top box businesses. TiVo said that as role of the deal, the parties volition seek an immediate […]
TiVo strikes new licensing deal with Panasonic
TiVo has renewed Rovi’s deal with Panasonic, allowing the electronics behemothic to continue to provide advanced amusement discovery experiences beyond its TV, DVR and set-summit boxes. The multi-twelvemonth product and intellectual property deal covers products Panasonic has licensed for the Japanese marketplace, including Rovi’south G-Guide, G-Guide HTML and G-Guide xD offerings. Panasonic too renewed its […]
TiVo updates Fan Television platform
TiVo has updated Fan Telly platform to offer new personalisation and discovery features across TV, tablet and mobile devices. The updated version of Fan TV will integrate personalised, contextual recommendations, and will introduce a smart grid guide to enable users to find content in a familiar grid-based format. It will also larn, based on user […]
TiVo unveils six tuner, 4K BOLT+ box
TiVo has unveiled the BOLT+, a 4K ready-pinnacle box that includes six tuners, 3TB of recording capacity and is due to launch in the US afterwards this week. The device, which is the latest addition to TiVo’s BOLT family of set up-top boxes, volition retail for Usa$499.99 and is described by TiVo equally a “best-in-class, all-in-one […]
TiVo developing ‘Mantis’ streaming ready-top box
TiVo is working on a streaming set-top box device, dubbed ‘Mantis’, co-ordinate to documents filed to the FCC and uncovered by US digital media news site Zatz Not Funny. The documents show that the TiVo model TCD84A000 (Mantis) is a network DVR that is designed to receive over-the-air broadcast video and transcode it to send […]
Rovi appoints former Ericsson exec to oversee TiVo integration
Rovi has appointed former Ericsson executive, Pete Thompson, equally its new principal operating officer to oversee the integration of TiVo. Thompson, who was senior vice president of Ericsson’s Mediaroom Business Grouping before he leaving the visitor in 2015, will report to Rovi’s president and CEO, Tom Carson. Based in TiVo’south office in San Jose, Thomson […]
Virgin Media unveils new V6 box, launches new TiVo UI
Virgin Media has unveiled new details about the Liberty Global EOS platform-based box it is to launch, along with the first public photo of the device, and has launched its updated TiVo user interface, including a new characteristic that volition enable users to discover, salvage and grouping together content across linear, on-demand and online Idiot box […]
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