TiVo effect, TV still doesn’t know what to do
Posted by Simon Perry on 21 January 2005 | Tagged as: Business, Video on Demand (VoD), PVR/DVR
In the 8 years since TiVo was founded, the TV industry still hasn’t come up with its response to it.
Archive for the 'PVR/DVR' Category
500GB Hard Drive from Hitachi
Posted by Simon Perry on 5 January 2005 | Tagged as: Platforms, PVR/DVR, Storage
Having been the first to get to a 40GB drive, Hitachi have now announced a 500GB drive for data hungry applications.
NDS Threaten TiVo with DirecTV PVR
Posted by Simon Perry on 30 November 2004 | Tagged as: Platforms, TiVo, Europe, PVR/DVR, Digital TV
Further details of how TiVo are losing their once magical touch. NDS are talking up their PVR offering and it would appear that DirecTV are listening.
VoD, NVoD & DVR All to Grow In Europe - Yankee
Posted by Berni Dwan on 2 November 2004 | Tagged as: Europe, Business, Video on Demand (VoD), PVR/DVR, Analysis, Digital TV
Combined Annual VoD and NVoD revenue will increase fivefold to Euro 2.2 Billion by 2008, while DVR service penetration will also increase to 20% of Western European Digital TV Homes by 2008, says Yankee Group.
TiVo to Restrict Content Usage
Posted by Berni Dwan on 29 October 2004 | Tagged as: Platforms, Copy Protection, PVR/DVR
TiVo, creators of the first digital video recorder, enter the world of content restrictions. Just wait for the backlash.
Amino shows tiny IPtv PVR STB
Posted by Simon Perry on 13 September 2004 | Tagged as: IBC2004, Platforms, Broadband, PVR/DVR, IPTV, Portable
Amino have released a tiny IPtv STB which includes an 80Gb PVR. Is this enough TLA’s (Three Letter Acronyms) for you?
Pace launch PVR2GO - 1st Mobile PVR for payTV
Posted by Simon Perry on 13 September 2004 | Tagged as: Platforms, IBC2004, Broadband, PVR/DVR, Portable
With a number of innovative features, Pace’s PVR2GO is worth looking at. Clearly not the first mobile video player, Pace claim it is the first for payTV content.
TV-Anytime v2 to include iTV timeshifting
Posted by Simon Perry on 13 September 2004 | Tagged as: Broadband, IBC2004, Content, PVR/DVR, Cross platform, Industry Trends, Software, Standards, Content Indexing & Navigation
Having set the initial phase of TV-Anytime as an ETSI standard, stage two will include some very interesting additions
Netflix and TiVo to Team Up
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 7 September 2004 | Tagged as: Distribution, PVR/DVR, Digital TV, DVD
Finally – films on demand, and not via the postal service either.
HomeChoice and Sky Do a Deal on Sport and Films
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 18 August 2004 | Tagged as: Distribution, Broadband, PVR/DVR
Video Networks are carrying Sky Sports and Sky Movies channels on their HomeChoice service.
