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TiVo: ‘Beyond a DVR company’
om Rogers has
declared that TiVo is
more than just a DVR
company and will build on
the momentum it has built
up through successful
relationships with cable
operators and will form new
distribution relationships.
Rogers, TiVo’s CEO, made the
comments during its Quarter
2016 Earnings Call. “TiVo has
moved way beyond being just a
DVR company. It is now clear
that the consumer will have the
ability to put together their own
television package with a degree
of flexibility that seemed
unimaginable,
even a year ago.”
He said that
while the role of
the cable
operator was still
vitally important in all this, the
consumer has more of a say than
ever, with regard to cord-cutting,
unbundling content, streaming
services, and delivery from the
cloud. “TiVo is a player in all
those arenas and we’re driving
innovation behind all of it to give
the consumer what they want and
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how they want it. Yet at the same
time, we are dedicated to making
the pay TV experience, the best
video experience a viewer can
have and we will make sure that
is true going well into
the future.”
Noting that TiVo
had almost six
million
subscriptions
globally; triple its
base from the first
quarter of 2012,
Rogers suggested that
the significant
subscription increases
were testament to its
broadcast, cable, video-ondemand, subscription video-ondemand, TV Everywhere,
streaming services and web video
and puts it all together into a
single approach that
makes it very easy for
the subscriber to
access what they
want, when they
want it, on a
personalised multidevice basis.”
“Today, our
innovative platform
serves a diverse set of
clients. Cable operators
that want to offer their
DVR and streaming services.”
He said that TiVo had
strengthened its current operator
relationships with extension of
the Virgin Media partnership and
through bundling efforts at ONO,
reporting that such efforts
continued to produce strong
results. “We expect that this
momentum will continue as
existing relationships scale and as
we form new distribution
relationships. We also continue to
deepen and strengthen our
current operator relationships.”
Rogers said he could see “a lot
of upside” in the North American
market, sizing it at about 15m
between the US
and Canada.
“We’ve got about
seven million of
those homes
represented by our
existing operator contracts today,
and our deployments within that
base are accelerating. We are also
having active ongoing discussions
with a number of operators
covering the remaining eight
million homes as well as with
operators beyond this identified
segment.”
“The consumer will have the ability to put together their
own television package with a degree of flexibility that
seemed unimaginable, even a year ago.”
ability to simplify the
consumption of video content,
“the unique proposition” in a
world where distribution of
content for the consumer is
becoming increasingly chaotic
from many different types of
sources.
“TiVo takes live, recorded,
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