An early release over the weekend took any surprise out of the inside track, but now TiVo has officially announced its plans for the recent TiVo Premiere Q and TiVo Preview set-top boxes and an update for its iPad app on the 2011 NCTA Cable Show. Both boxes are firsts for TiVo, the Premiere Q (pictured above) as it has four tuners and might stream video to as much as three other boxes in the house, and the Preview as it lacks a difficult drive or any DVR capabilities entirely. The Preview can function by itself or as a multiroom thin client streaming from TiVo DVRs, and both promise full integration with video on-demand and other cable-provided services. There is no word on any retail plans and as expected RCN and Suddenlink may be the first to give the boxes. The TiVo iPad app can also be getting a cable-friendly makeover with a brand new version which may browse video on-demand offerings and flick them to any available TiVos for viewing, similar to it does for internet video. We complained concerning the slow pace of updates for the prevailing Premiere DVR yesterday, so we’ll have a fresh outlook at the official announcements (PR and more pictures are after the break) and examine a future where TiVo isn’t tied to DVRs or being offered at retail.
Introduces Company’s First Quad-Tuner DVR Gateway and primary Non-DVR HD Set-Top Box; RCN and Suddenlink First Cable Operators Planning to present New Products
CHICAGO, IL, Jun 13, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), a creator and leader in advanced television services and digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced a better generation of its whole home solution with the addition of sturdy HD video streaming and two new set-tops to its agency product family. TiVo Premiere Q, the company’s first-ever quad-tuner gateway set-top box, and TiVo Preview, its first non-DVR HD set-top box, will join TiVo’s existing advanced television solutions offered to cable operators.
Per TiVo’s mission to bring the TiVo experience to each screen in the home, these new products enable TiVo’s operator partners to supply a great advanced television experience to non-DVR households, single DVR households, in addition to multi-room DVR households. With its four tuners and support for broad range of video on demand content over IP, the TiVo Premiere Q serves as a complicated video gateway, while TiVo Preview provides the whole TiVo user experience for non-DVR households and in addition functions as a skinny client complement to these using a TiVo DVR, making a fantastic multi-room viewing experience. Both set-top boxes support the total integration of operator services similar to Video on Demand, PPV, CallerID at the TV and linear programming, plus access to broadband applications and services.
“TiVo’s solution for cable has stood apart in delivering the only real offering that fully integrates the operator’s linear and VOD content with broadband content and alertness choices,” said David Sandford, TiVo’s Vp and General Manager of TiVo’s supplier business. “With the introduction of the TiVo Premiere Q and TiVo Preview, TiVo is extending its advanced user experience and leading multi-room capabilities to supply cable operators a value effective and highly differentiated solution for all sorts of household and each television in the home.”
Beyond its quad tuners and industry leading DVR features, TiVo Premiere Q brings a number of advantages to operators deploying whole home solutions. TiVo Premiere Q is exclusive in that it supports 4 simultaneous recordings and the power to view streaming broadband content, while collectively supporting as much as 3 HD streams over a MoCA or Ethernet home network. It’s also the sole STB of its kind that integrates a bridge between the MoCA and Ethernet networks to simplify and decrease the price of installation, allowing the Premiere Q to simply connect with existing home networks.
TiVo Preview completes the overall home solution for operators that may now deploy the TiVo user experience in every room of the house. It provides the identical HD user experience because the TiVo Premiere and Premiere Q and completely integrates an operator’s linear and VOD content with broadband content and alertness choices, and immediate streaming access to DVR content from a TiVo Premiere or Premiere Q. Just like Premiere Q, Preview includes integrated MoCA and Ethernet for home networking and multi-room applications.
“Because the first cable operator to deploy TiVo Premiere last year, rolling out a complete home solution from TiVo is the logical next step for our company,” said Jim Holanda, CEO of RCN. “We glance forward to offering our customers the TiVo user experience, with access to their recordings, RCN VOD and broadband content options on every television screen in the house.”
These products will initially be available through select cable operators. RCN would be the first domestic cable operator to supply subscribers the Premiere Q and Preview, along with its current TiVo Premiere offering. Suddenlink expects to increase its current TiVo offering through these and other TiVo products. Operators who embrace any of TiVo’s three products will now have the ability to realize expanded whole-home capabilities and the identical user experience on every TV. TiVo plans to make both new products available to its cable operator partners later this year.
TiVo unveiled both products throughout the 2011 NCTA Cable Show in Chicago. For more info visit the TiVo booth #ES-1 located usually exhibit hall.
About TiVo Inc. Founded in 1997, TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) developed the primary commercially available digital video recorder (DVR). TiVo offers the TiVo service and TiVo DVRs on to consumers online at www.tivo.com and during third-party retailers. TiVo also distributes its technology and services through solutions tailored for cable, satellite and broadcasting companies. Since its founding, TiVo has evolved into the final word single solution media center by combining its patented DVR technologies and universal cable box capabilities having the ability to aggregate, search, and deliver millions of pieces of broadband, cable, and broadcast content on to the tv. A cost-effective, one-stop-shop for in-home entertainment, TiVo’s intuitive functionality and simplicity of use puts viewers up to the mark by enabling them to effortlessly navigate the proper digital entertainment content available through one box, with one remote, and one user interface, delivering the main dynamic user experience that you can buy today. TiVo also continues to weave itself into the cloth of the media industry by providing interactive advertising solutions and audience research and measurement ratings services to the tv industry www.tivo.com
TiVo and the TiVo Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of TiVo Inc. or its subsidiaries worldwide. Copyright 2011 TiVo Inc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks are the valuables in their respective owners.
This release contains forward-looking statements in the meaning of the personal Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to, among other things, the long run availability of TiVo Premiere Q and TiVo Preview set-top boxes, including expected functionality, features and capabilities. Forward-looking statements generally will be identified by means of forward-looking terminology consisting of, “believe,” “expect,” “may,” “will,” “intend,” “estimate,” “continue,” or similar expressions or the negative of these terms or expressions. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, that may cause actual results to alter materially from those expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements. Factors which could cause actual results to vary materially include delays in development, competitive service offerings and absence of market acceptance, in addition to the alternative potential factors described under “Risk Factors” within the Company’s public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2011, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K. The corporate cautions you to not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect an analysis only and speak only as of the date hereof. TiVo disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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TiVo Enhances iPad App to profit Cable Operators
New edition of TiVo’s Companion Application Adds Operator’s VOD Catalog and Integrates VOD Prominently Into the general Search Results
CHICAGO, IL, Jun 13, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a pacesetter in advanced television services including digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced that it has enhanced its TiVo App for iPad to incorporate new features tailored to its cable partners. Launched at the App store earlier this year, the TiVo App for iPad enables users to look, browse, explore and share their favorite entertainment all without interrupting what’s playing at the television. Once found, the user simply “flicks” the chosen content from the iPad to their TV screen.
The hot version of TiVo’s companion iPad application automatically adds the operator’s Video on Demand into the hunt and read features in the App, allowing viewers to quickly discover a TV program or movie and luxuriate in it on TV. The App also automatically detects and integrates the operator’s branding, linear programming and VOD catalog when connected to a TiVo box provided by the operator.
“Operators are constantly in search of new easy methods to hook up with their subscribers,” said David Sandford, TiVo’s Vice chairman and General Manager of TiVo’s corporation business. “The enhancements we have now made to our iPad App help cable operators bring TiVo’s innovative user interface directly into the hands in their subscribers, thereby offering consumers the final handheld remote control and viewing on demand experience. We now have only just begun to refine our offering to the operator community and watch for bringing additional elements to the TiVo iPad App.”
To profit more visit www.tivo.com/ipad.
TiVo made this announcement in the course of the 2011 NCTA Cable Show in Chicago.
About TiVo Inc. Founded in 1997, TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) developed the 1st commercially available digital video recorder (DVR). TiVo offers the TiVo service and TiVo DVRs on to consumers online at www.tivo.com and during third-party retailers. TiVo also distributes its technology and services through solutions tailored for cable, satellite and broadcasting companies. Since its founding, TiVo has evolved into without equal single solution media center by combining its patented DVR technologies and universal cable box capabilities having the ability to aggregate, search, and deliver millions of pieces of broadband, cable, and broadcast content on to the tv. A cost-effective, one-stop-shop for in-home entertainment, TiVo’s intuitive functionality and simplicity of use puts viewers on top of things by enabling them to effortlessly navigate one of the best digital entertainment content available through one box, with one remote, and one user interface, delivering probably the most dynamic user experience in the marketplace today. TiVo also continues to weave itself into the material of the media industry by providing interactive advertising solutions and audience research and measurement ratings services to the tv industry www.tivo.com
TiVo and the TiVo Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of TiVo Inc. or its subsidiaries worldwide. Copyright 2011 TiVo Inc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks are the valuables in their respective owners.
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