Steve Browning has stepped down as New Zealand general manager of the organisation that runs TiVo in this country – Hybrid Television Services.
Browning, who moved from Freeview in April, is now working as chief financial officer at up-and-coming publishing company The Image Centre.
Browning and Hybrid could not be reached for comment. But an industry colleague said Brown had always been expected to stay only for the start-up phase for the digital video recorder firm.
It is understood the uptake for the TiVo set-top box has been slow.
Tech reviewers are impressed by the slick technology that puts it on the cutting edge for a consumer-led convergence of television and computers. But apart from movie downloads, it lacks content compared with its main digital video recorder competitor, MySky HDi.
TiVo is backed by Telecom with an unmetered broadband deal that allows unlimited movie downloads. Unlike MySky it does not require an ongoing subscription. Hybrid is one-third owned by TVNZ and two-thirds by Australia’s Seven Network.
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September 1st, 2009
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It might be a long-standing DVR fixture in the United States, but down in the land of kiwis TiVo hasn’t shown up at all. That’s changing this November, when the service finally reaches New Zealand.
See more @ http://bitstream.soundandvisionmag.com/blog/2009/08/tivos-hitting-new-zealand-.html
Strategists at advertising consultancy Total Media are forecasting a slugfest when TiVo launches at the end of the year and challenges the technology advantage of MySky HDi.
Sky Television beat TVNZ in the first major battle with Freeview-exclusive channels.
See More @ http://www.nzherald.co.nz/gadgets/news/article.cfm?c_id=238&objectid=10575854
With the impending arrival of TiVo in New Zealand doesn’t mean much now that Sky’s MySky service got its foot through the door first.
TiVo is a media device that combines digital terrestrial television with broadband content, service and games.
TV ads claim that TiVo is the “biggest revolution since the invention of television”. Do breakthroughs in science and technology or the social revolutions that have shaped our recent history not count?
See More @ http://www.capitaltimes.co.nz/column/24/n/2326/TiVovMySky.boss
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