Over on the TiVo Community, one member who identifies himself as representing Virgin Media Customer Relations has posted a long list of possible VM TiVo enhancements. Amongst the bullet points… As you might expect, UK customers will ultimately receive access to the iPad app we currently enjoy here in the US. However, it appears TiVo To Go … Read more
While we knew several technical details (HD, 3D, 1TB, etc) of the Virgin Media TiVo headed to the UK later this year (tick tock), but now we see (some) hardware imagery beyond my Phoshopped mockup. And, as expected, the partners have ported the TiVo experience onto non-TiVo hardware yet it will ship with the iconic … Read more
Photoshopped. Revealed about a year ago, Virgin Media indicated they’d bring the TiVo experience (back) to the UK in 2010. And while the game clock is winding down, Virgin has reiterated that the new product will indeed arrive this year. Along with a few other details: “Virgin Media and TiVo have developed a unique converged … Read more
As TiVo does, they fire off feel-good news (for investors) along most quarterly earnings calls – to possibly soften the blow of continued subscriber defections. Today, they’ve announced a deal in which Google will be mining our TiVo commercial viewing (er, skipping) behavior to enhance their television advertising initiative. Yawn. Much more interesting, via a … Read more
While perusing the merger-related deluge of regulatory filings for notable nuggets, we learn that TiVo is developing a “Next Gen UI” (in addition to reinforcing another consumer product is coming, which we’ll discuss next). For color, Virgin Media indicates they “will be updating the existing TiVo set-top box to make its menus slicker and more picture-based.” Vertical lists of text are inefficient in many … Read more
TiVo’s gearing up for a new round of television advertising targeting cord cutters with a pair of DVR birthing videos. Generally speaking, most ads that attempt to be clever and edgy are neither. I found the spots very mildly amusing, but think the company would have been better served with more focus on the product’s capabilities (like Virgin) … Read more
In conjunction with the opening of The Cable Show, that Mari is attending, TiVo has fired off a press release trumpeting a record 4.5 million subscribers — the majority of which originate from cableco-deployments. TiVo Inc., a leader in the advanced television entertainment market, today announced that it has more than 4.5 million subs who are now enjoying the TiVo … Read more
By way of The Drum, we learn that Virgin TiVo set-tops have just published My Nick Jr – a customizable app of pre-school edutainment: My Nick Jr. features 650 Nick Jr. episodes including episodes of beloved Nick Jr. titles such as Dora the Explorer, Bubble Guppies, Tickety Toc and Dinosaur Train. Using the app, parents can create an individual My … Read more