DVR / PVR (Digital Video Recorder/Personal Video Recorder) News

TiVo subscriptions down 139k in quarter to end-April '09
May 27, 2009 – TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) has reported financial results for the first quarter ended April 30, 2009. TiVo-Owned subscription gross additions for the first quarter were approximately 37,000, compared to 48,000 gross additions for the year-ago period.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Australia, Cable TV, Canada, DVR, Mexico, New Zealand, Results, Set Top Box, Streaming, Subscribers, Taiwan, USA

Service Provider In-Home Networks Using Coax/Phone Wire Growing
May 27, 2009 – By 2013, the average household will have 2.5x as many digital media devices in use as in 2008, according to In-Stat. Networking over wiring in homes is becoming increasingly important, particularly for service provider entertainment networks.
News categories: In-Stat, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Gateway, IPTV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart Home

2.1 million digital TV RGUs for KDG at end-March '09
May 26, 2009 – Germany's largest cable network operator Kabel Deutschland (KDG) has announced results for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. The overall number of digital TV RGUs amounted to 2.1 million (1.6 million thousand in the previous year).
News categories: KDG, Cable TV, DVR, Germany, Results, Subscribers

Kabel BW Selects NDS Middleware, XTV™ DVR and VOD Solutions
May 26, 2009 – NDS has announced that Kabel BW has chosen NDS' MediaHighway® set-top-box middleware, NDS XTV™ DVR technology and a VOD solution from NDS to extend the capabilities of Kabel BW's service offering and technology infrastructure.
News categories: NDS Group, Kabel BW, ANGA COM, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Germany, Middleware, Set Top Box

NDS and Axel Springer Cooperate to Promote Personal TV in Germany
May 26, 2009 – At ANGA Cable, NDS and Axel Springer Digital TV Guide (XETRA: SPR.DE) have announced their cooperation to promote personal TV to Germany's broadcasting, pay-TV and cable providers.
News categories: NDS Group, Axel Springer Digital TV Guide, Advertising, ANGA COM, Cable TV, Content Distribution, DVR, Germany, Middleware

TC TrustCenter and CI Plus announce significant early adoption of Standard
May 25, 2009 – CI Plus, the CE industry backed technology for allowing secure delivery of premium pay TV services to Integrated Digital TV's, Set Top Boxes and Personal Video Recorders, has announced the initial details of the take up of the technology.
News categories: CI Plus, TC TrustCenter, Content Protection, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Australia releases Digital Tracker survey report
May 22, 2009 – The Digital Tracker Survey measures the national uptake of digital television and Australians' awareness and attitudes towards the switchover to digital TV.
News categories: Digital Switchover Taskforce, Australia, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Optical Disc Recorder, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

ViXS Enables New Hitachi HD Flat Panel TVs with built-in HDD
May 21, 2009 – ViXS Systems has announced that the XCode® 3290 has been selected by Hitachi (Tokyo:6501; NYSE:HIT) to enable their latest generation of HD Flat Panel TVs featuring a built-in Hard Disk Drive (HDD) for Personal Video Recording (PVR).
News categories: ViXS Systems, Hitachi, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, DVR, ISDB-T, Japan, Middleware, Semiconductor, Smart Home, Smart TV, Terrestrial

GfK UK Digital Home update
May 20, 2009 – GfK's ConsumerScope panel has found that between a third and one half of UK households owning more than one TV still have at least one analogue TV, and Digital Video Recorders have replaced VCRs in only four and a half million households.
News categories: GfK, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Optical Disc Recorder, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial, UK