CNet: TiVo said Monday it has agreed on a deal to provide digital video recorder equipment and service to customers of the more than 1,100 member companies of the National Cable Television Cooperative. The NCTC, based in Lenexa, Kan., buys hardware and programming for its member operators. read more>
Digital set-top box manufacturer Pace Micro Technology has signed an agreement with DirectTV under which it will supply the satellite entertainment distributor with set-top boxes during 2006.
The deal—whose financial terms were not disclosed, provided DirecTV with boxes that being described as “next generation” of PVR’s.
(via Worldscreen)
TiVo has announced that it will be introducing pop-up ads, although thankfully not during actual viewing time.
eCT reports that TiVo has said General Motors The WB Network are the first companies to pay for a feature that inserts pop-up ads, filling close to 25 percent of the TV screen, when certain subscribers fast-forward through their […]
TiVo has launched a limited time offer on all TiVo Series2 boxes that brings the manufacturer’s suggested retail price of a 40 hour box to just $99, the lowest price ever without a TiVo rebate requirement. The promotion ends on August 20, 2005.
TiVo says the instant savings promotion celebrates the birth of the new summer […]
For those that know their Linux, IBM’s Developerworks has some interesting stuff in the internals of a Tivo box. Bit beyond my capabilities, but looks interesting none the less.
A new report from The Diffusion Group suggests that as DirecTV phases out shipments of TiVo DVRs – a relationship that accounted for 70% of TiVo units sold in 2004 but will account for less than 5% of unit shipments by 2007 – TiVo will be forced to come to terms with an increasingly competitive […]
TiVo viewing data by New York-based media agency MPG finds that over the past two weeks, most of TiVo users’ top 25 broadcast network shows weren’t recorded but instead seen live.
“It seems like the DVR usage is seasonal,” said Nina Kanter, director of communication analysis at MPG told the Hollywood Reporter.
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Walt Disney Co. has hired the former president of TiVo Inc. to lead a streamlined corporate strategy group responsible for planning and identifying acquisitions.
According to Reuters Marty Yudkovitz will be senior vice president of the group. Whether this means PVR technology companies are on the Disney Media radar is yet to be seen, but bringing […]
The Hollywood Reporter reports that at an investor’s conference Thursday, TiVo vp finance Stuart West said the company’s advertising initiatives and partnership with Nielsen Media Research for gathering data from TiVo’s users amount to businesses that are “still at a fairly nascent stage,” though they’re expected to grow quickly once Comcast Corp. offers TiVo’s service […]
There’s been a lot of stories around lately that Tivo is the death of advertising and that advertising in going “inline” into programs to compensate, like this one at South End . But seriously, ads have always been within shows, or is product placement all in my head?
