Tag: TiVo

  • Re-Bundling, WFH, Inflation, Workforce & More Tidbits from Fiber Connect 2022

    Re-Bundling, WFH, Inflation, Workforce & More Tidbits from Fiber Connect 2022

    [The following is a lightly edited @viodi series of tweets from the Tuesday morning general session of the Fiber Broadband Association’s Fiber Connect 2022.] Re-Bundling Opportunity? “People on average are using about 9 video [over-the-top] services,” says @TiVo‘s Kevin Lenhart.1 Although most seem satisfied, there seems to be an undercurrent of those surveyed by TiVo…

  • More or Less Competition from FCC’s Approved “Open” Set Top Box Proposal?

    More or Less Competition from FCC’s Approved “Open” Set Top Box Proposal?

    On Feb 18, 2016, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) narrowly approved a proposal by Chairman Tom Wheeler to let consumers swap their cable television boxes for cheaper devices and apps, a move that is intended to increase competition in the $20 billion set-top box market. The proposal passed on a 3-to-2 vote, with commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael…