CES 2023 Saw Smart TV OS Wars Intensify Among Smart Media Adapter Brands
The smart TV platform wars heated up at CES 2023 with announcements of new smart TV brands and platform approaches, impinging further on the share of smart TV sticks and adapters — so-called streaming media devices (SMD), market analyst S&P Global observed in a blog…
Xperi Acquires Vewd In Bid To Expand The TiVo Brand
Xperi, the holding company that controls CE brands and technologies including TiVo, DTS IMAX Enhanced and others, announced Tuesday the acquisition of Vewd Software Holdings Limited for $109 million through a mixture of cash and debt. Vewd is a prominent global brand in over-the-top (OTT)…
Xperi Study: Personalization Key To Winning Fickle SVoD Viewers
Providing greater levels of personalization in multiple touch points of a user’s over the top (OTT) streaming experience, and getting it right, is the key to building user engagement, preventing viewer churn and adding new subscribers from the increasing competitive field. That was the key…
Recent SVOD Studies Show Takers Rising Along With Fee Juggling
A pair of recent market research studies indicate that subscription video on demand (SVOD) takers and the number of services they subscribe to will continue to climb in the five years ahead, even as viewers grow weary of stacking disparate service fees. According to research…
TiVo Releases TiVo Stream 4K OTT Media Dongle With Dolby Vision
Legendary DVR-resource TiVo launched this week its TiVo Stream 4K media streamer dongle that is designed to bring a mini version of the company’s popular remote and unifying easy user-interface that will help users easily find favorite movies and programs from disparate content sources. The…
‘TiVo Stream 4K’ Adapter To Take On Roku, Apple TV Etc.
Among the slew of new video products and service announcements at CES 2020 was word that DVR-pioneer TiVo was getting into the affordably priced streaming media player game by introducing the TiVo Stream 4K, an Android TV-powered dongle that easily connects to a TV’s HDMI…
TiVo’s New Edge Series DVR Pair Is Available Now
TiVo officially introduced through a blog posting Tuesday its new TiVo Edge DVRs available in two versions — one optimized for cable users and one for over-the-air (OTA) cord-cutters — called “the Edge for cable and the Edge for antenna,” respectively. As we reported back…
TiVo Reveals Ad-Supported Content Revenue Initiatives
TiVo, the pioneer of the ad-forwarding digital video recorder (DVR) market, continues to move aggressively into the digital ad-supported video space including placing new ad insertions prior to the start of consumers’ recorded programming. The plan follows the company’s recent announcement that it will soon…
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