Hints and tips:
...Tivo shares are down by a little more than one-fifth so far this year. Amazon shares were 0.4 per cent lower on Friday....
...The news sent TiVo shares up 12 per cent in after-hours trading....
...The first TiVo boxes — digital video recorders — shipped in 1999. A sea change in TV viewing was under way....
...company and patent hog Rovi has agreed to buy DVR-maker TiVo in a $1.1bn deal....
...It’s partly thanks to changing technology: TiVo, the digital video recorder that allows viewers to queue up endless episodes of their favourite programmes, arrived in 1999, a precursor to online streaming...
...TiVo shares rose 2.18 per cent to $12.19 after the company said total subscriptions had reached 4.5m and investors grew increasingly confident that new deals with cable subscribers could lift TiVo’s reach...
...TiVo shares climbed 6.6 per cent to $13.68 on Thursday after the company said sales advanced at a greater than expected pace and it would benefit from Comcast’s decision to integrate its services with TiVo...
...Also, my Slingbox is plugged in to a Tivo set-top box so I can watch movies and other programmes, such as a Yankees game, when I like....
...All three require the Tivo subscription service....
...At its current stock price of $12, TiVo’s market cap is about $1.6bn....
...Tivo’s Roamio is excellent, although it does require a subscription. Alternatively, Western Digital’s WD TV Play and the Roku 3 are both excellent value, with access to a wide range of video services....
...Tom Rogers, president and chief executive of TiVo, says companies like Procter & Gamble and Kraft have seen “real results” through targeting based on actual purchasing data....
...TiVo reached a similar deal in January with AT&T, the largest US telecommunications group, under which AT&T agreed to pay TiVo at least $215m....
...Tivo, meanwhile, estimates that 65 per cent of Americans who have a Tivo digital video recorder skip broadcast prime time ads....
...Competitors in this role include TiVo, Roku, Sony and Apple. Many of these options are already low cost....
...It will appear later this year priced “like a high-end TiVo” – so around $400 – if the company can get the seed funding it seeks....
...As the variety of TV content available over the internet expands, the future market for makers of TV set-top boxes – such as Virgin Media’s TiVo and Sky’s Plus – has been called into question....
...TiVo, which makes digital television recorders, will receive $500m, including an initial payment of $300m....
...“If you think back five years, it was all about the boxes; Tivo, Slingbox, Roku,” he said: “I think consumers really had box exhaustion.”...
...Google TV also offers full unrestricted access to the open web, unlike the “walled gardens” of Tivo, SkyAnytime+ and YouView....
...My US portfolio has grown by an overall 25 per cent, through gains for Netflix, Amazon.com, Apollo, Visa, and TiVo....
...TiVo said it had yet to be served with Microsoft’s complaint, and would not comment until it had seen full details....
...earnings news, Dish Network , the satellite television provider, was up19 per cent to $29.79 as the company reported that its first-quarter profit had more than doubled, helped by a patent settlement with TiVo...
International Edition