Comcast and TiVo’s rollout of full Comcast service for subscribers...
Comcast and TiVo’s rollout of full Comcast service for subscribers who own TiVo’s Premiere box in the San Francisco Bay Area is complete and TiVo said it expects subscribers in additional markets will be able to access VOD on their…
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DVRs soon. “This deployment demonstrates that some pay TV providers are taking steps to work cooperatively with consumer electronics manufacturers in an effort to deliver exciting new solutions to their mutual customers,” Matthew Zinn, TiVo’s general counsel, wrote in a letter to the FCC (http://xrl.us/bm69h3). “We hope other pay TV providers follow Comcast’s lead to deliver greater device choices to the benefit of consumers,” he said. Along those lines, he pointed to recent CableCARD deployment statistics from the NCTA that show the number of customers using CableCARDs continues to grow. “We are hopeful that the rollout of Xfinity On Demand to TiVo premiere DVRs will accelerate the use of CableCARDs in Comcast markets,” he said.