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

Pace plc results for the year ended 31 December 2008
Mar 3, 2009 – Pace (LSE:PIC) has announced its results for the year to 31 December 2008. Pace sold 4.7m set-top boxes into the EMEA region, with shipments into APAC of 1.1m. Americas shipments totalled 7.3m units.
News categories: Pace plc, Cable TV, DVR, IPTV, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

TVBLOB Aims to Make TV as Open as the Web with the First BLOBbox from Telsey
Mar 2, 2009 – TVBLOB™ and Telsey® have launched the first BLOBbox™, a set-top box with advanced software able to harness all of the content available on the Web, without any filtering or pre-selection by a third party.
News categories: Telsey, TVBLOB, TecnologieCreative, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, Streaming, Terrestrial

TiVo Reports First Full Year of Profitability for Fiscal Year Ended January 31, 2009
Mar 2, 2009 – TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) has reported results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended January 31, 2009. TiVo-Owned subscription gross additions for the fourth quarter were around 59,000, compared to 109,000 gross additions for the year-ago period.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Australia, Cable TV, Canada, DVR, Mexico, Results, Set Top Box, Streaming, Subscribers, Taiwan, USA

TiVo, SeaChange Team Up to Integrate Cable Video On-Demand Offerings Into TiVo DVRs
Mar 2, 2009 – TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) and SeaChange International (Nasdaq: SEAC) have announced that they have joined forces to integrate cable VOD services into the TiVo HD DVR experience.
News categories: TiVo Inc, SeaChange, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, DVR, Set Top Box, USA

TiVo and Alticast Announce Agreement
Mar 2, 2009 – TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) and Alticast have announced that they have entered into an agreement intended to reduce the time-to-market for pay TV operators seeking to harness TiVo's consumer experience in conjunction with the Alticast embedded software.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Alticast, Blu-ray, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, DVR, IPTV, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Iomega DVR Expander Drive Now Certified With Pace Set-Top Boxes
Feb 26, 2009 – Iomega (NYSE:EMC) has announced that the Iomega® DVR Expander Drive is certified for compatibility with Pace Americas (LSE: PIC) cable set-top boxes and digital video recorders.
News categories: Iomega, Pace, Cable TV, DVR, Set Top Box, USA

Kabel Deutschland with double digit growth rates in revenue and EBITDA
Feb 26, 2009 – KDG was able to further expand its customer base despite the financial and economic crisis. RGUs for digital pay TV grew by 82,900 to a total of 846,300 units. At the end of 2008 the number of all digital pay TV users reached 2 million.
News categories: Kabel Deutschland, Cable TV, DVR, Germany, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers

BBC Trust launches public consultation on proposal for internet protocol television
Feb 26, 2009 – The BBC Trust has launched a public consultation on the BBC's proposal (Project Canvas) to develop a partnership to help enable the delivery of internet protocol TV. The proposal would allow viewers to watch on-demand services via TV sets.
News categories: BBC Trust, Project Canvas, Digital TV, DVR, Satellite, Set Top Box, Streaming, Terrestrial, UK

Mediacom Reports Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008
Feb 25, 2009 – Mediacom Communications (Nasdaq: MCCC) has reported financial results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2008. During the quarter, digital customers grew by 19,000 ending the year with 643,000 customers.
News categories: Mediacom Communications, Cable TV, DVR, Results, Subscribers, USA