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TiVo and Roku Share Patents in New Agreement

by Alan Spencer

TiVo and Roku have signed a multi-year intellectual property licence agreement covering both company’s patent portfolios as well as OTT assets of the intellectual ventures patent portfolio under the TiVo/IV licensing partnership. In addition, …

Tags:EPGs| Large Display Monitor| Roku| Tivo| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Roku Gives TV Advertisers Audience Guarantees

by Alan Spencer

Roku can now give audience guarantees to TV advertisers, so that marketers can now measure campaigns using detailed demographic metrics, comparable to linear TV with Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings. With the addition of demographic …

Roku Now Has Over 13 million Active Customers

by Alan Spencer

Roku had 13.4 million active customers at the end of 2016 and they streamed nine billion hours of video and music in the year, including one billion hours in December 2016. According to Nielsen, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Roku| Vol 24 - Issue 08

CES 2017 Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

Analogix was showing how its DisplayPort-based Slimport products could be used for VR applications, especially as it has developed SlimPort to MIPI display controllers that are available in single MIPI, dual Mipi or dual …

TV OS, UI and Delivery News

by Chris Chinnock

The integration of third party Operating Systems (OS) into TV and bundling of content from a wide array of sources, picked up steam at CES 2017. The range of solutions seems to be consolidating …

Hisense Focuses on LaserCast TV and HDR-compatible Models

by Chris Chinnock

Hisense, which also manages the Sharp brand in North America, came to CES to showcase two type of large screen display solutions. This included the projection-based Laser Cast TV and a full range of …

Sling TV Introduces Cloud DVR, to Debut in Beta for Select Roku Users

by Isaac Oburu

Starting today, Sling TV customers may request an invitation to participate in its cloud DVR beta program. Available first to eligible Sling TV customers using Roku™ streaming players and Roku TV™s, the cloud DVR …

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Sling TV Offers Cloud DVR beta to Roku Users

by Bob Raikes

SlingTV has invited its customers, starting with those using Roku systems, to join in a beta programme for a cloud-based service. The service claims to be the only cloud DVR with no 28-day restriction …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Roku| Streaming Dongles| Vol 23 - Issue 47

Roku Plans OS 7.5 Upgrade

by Bob Raikes

Roku is planning to roll out Version 7.5 of its OS and will bring new features in Live TV pause (when OTA TV is being accessed and if the TV has a USB storage …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Roku| Vol 23 - Issue 43

Roku Announces All-New Streaming Player Line Up Starting at $29.99

by Isaac Oburu

Roku, Inc. today announced a new line up of streaming players with features, prices and performance for every kind of streamer. Setting a new milestone, Roku launched its tiniest streaming player yet– the new …

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Two New Roku Boxes Support HDR

by Bob Raikes

After a series of rumours, Roku has now announced a complete line of four new boxes, along with a special version for Walmart. The Roku Express is a FullHD box replaces the Roku 1 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Roku| Streaming Dongles| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Canada’s VMedia launches live TV on Roku TVs and players

by Isaac Oburu

VMedia Inc. today announced the launch of its VMedia TV streaming channel on the Roku® streaming platform in Canada. With VMedia TV, consumers will be able to watch up to 20 live TV channels, …

Tags:Roku| Streaming Video