TiVo and Pace Announce Global Partnership

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
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Leading Provider of Set-Top Boxes and Gateways Worldwide Working With Leading Provider of Advanced Television Solutions to Provide Flexibility for Operators Implementing Advanced Television Strategies

ALVISO, CA — TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in advanced television services including digital video recorders (DVRs), and Pace plc (LSE: PIC), a leading developer of technologies, products and services for service providers, today announced plans to port TiVo’s award-winning software to Pace’s set-top boxes and gateways. This development will further enable operators around the world to quickly and cost-effectively deploy the renowned TiVo consumer experience to a selection of Pace devices.

“This global partnership with Pace is another step in achieving our constant goal of providing the TiVo service to an ever-expanding audience,” said Tom Rogers, CEO and President of TiVo. “The integration of TiVo’s advanced television software with Pace’s service provider optimized platforms will allow our mutual partners to offer TiVo’s best-in-class linear and broadband TV experience with their choice of hardware. This answers strong interest from TiVo’s growing list of service providers deploying the TiVo experience to their customers.”

Pace has licensed TiVo’s Hardware Porting Kit and will work with TiVo to build a TiVo-verified platform which will provide operators licensing the TiVo solution the choice of utilizing Pace set-top boxes and gateways. To simplify operational integration and speed to market, the solution will leverage Pace’s proven provisioning and device management capabilities and provide integrated high-speed data connectivity for broadband communications and content delivery.

The solution will also harness TiVo’s whole-home capabilities, such as multi-room streaming and support for both traditional set-top and IP clients, including TiVo’s mobile and tablet applications.

“We are thrilled to be working with TiVo as they have a great solution for operators looking to answer their customers’ increased demand for advanced and hybrid TV capabilities,” said Mike Pulli, CEO of Pace plc. “We’ve seen increased interest from all segments of our service provider business to integrate the TiVo solution. In working together, we will provide an offering which seamlessly marries the operator’s television and Internet services in an elegant and easy to use product for their end users.”

Pace intends to offer implementations for both DVR and advanced gateway set-top boxes globally, with an initial product to be made available to cable operators in the Americas.