Although TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) saw a healthy gain in revenues in Q4, the DVR company was unable to balance its growing costs and reduced subscriber additions. Nevertheless, TiVo has been riding high on some good news in the form of last week’s favorable legal decision, when two members of a…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q408	Net Inc. vs Q408
TiVo	Release		15.7%	188%

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

Last-minute dramatics this afternoon as the next “deadline” approaches for Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Cablevision: tonight’s Academy Awards. Disney says it’s sent a new proposal and the ball is in the cable operator’s court. But Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) is playing a different game: calling on “CEO Bob Iger to immediately…

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. And, with Hulu yet to launch services outside its home market of the U.S., it’s no surprise, perhaps, that there are some sites bearing an uncanny resemblance to Hulu launching in other markets. The latest is ivi.ru, a Russian portal that…

By Chris Tryhorn: UK broadcaster Five has signed a deal with CBS (NYSE: CBS) to make programmes available on the US network’s on-demand video website TV.com. The partnership is a coup for CBS, allowing it to steal a march on its US rivals ABC (NYSE: DIS), Fox and NBC, whose…

Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) customers who subscribe to both digital cable and broadband from the Long Island operator may get the chance next quarter to do something their geek friends have been bragging about but with a lot less hassle: watch internet content on their TVs. The new service, dubbed PC…

Redbox has ended its lawsuit against Warner Brothers Home Entertainment and will give in to the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) unit’s demands for a longer lead time before the DVD kiosk operator makes its rentals available. The deal calls for new release DVD and Blu-ray titles to be made available…

Telegraph.co.uk’s sources have been promising the paper Hulu’s imminent UK launch for so long now that, now it’s reporting “further delays” to the U.S. VOD site’s ambitions here, we’re barely inclined to mention it - but anyway… Despite claiming in August that Hulu was in “most advanced discussions” to land…

Through some quirks of scheduling, I got my first taste of Olympics action on a laptop through in-flight wireless—not the big screen in our living room—and watched the winning ski jump late at night on demand using the NBC Olympics iPhone app. The 2010 Winter Olympics may not be the…

Swedish film streaming site Voddler, still in beta, has picked up a further 26 million Swedish kronor (£2.25 million, $3.5 million) in funding. This round comes from Eqvitec Partners and brings the total amount that Voddler has received up to SEK150 million (£13 million, $20.2 million), according to a spokesperson…

Epix, the premium entertainment JV between Viacom (NYSE: VIA), Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), has finally added another distribution partner: Cox Communications. Cox has more than 5 million subscribers. The partnership goes live in April, with VOD, online and subscription-based access for Cox’s “movie tier customers” nationwide. The companies…

Amid increasing speculation about which company would be an ideal suitor for Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), comes insight into how the movie rental service plans to build longevity into its business—a bid to maintain its independence, perhaps—by brokering digital distribution deals directly with Hollywood studios. Netflix continues to deliver profits and…

The BBC has released a new bundle of iPlayer stats showing just how popular the catch-up service was in 2009… A record 88.2 million requests in November Added to the 641 million requests served over January to October, that’s a total 729.2 million Most popular show: Top Gear series 13,…

British TVs are about to get a lot more internetty. The BBC’s regulating BBC Trust has provisionally approved the corporation’s approval for Project Canvas, an effort to create a common interface for IPTV-delivered catch-up VOD and internet widgets in the living room. The BBC, ITV (LSE: ITV), Channel 4, Five…

Rupert Murdoch and Silvio Berluscioni are both doubling down on pay-TV investments outside their native markets, pushing the European sector to further consolidation ... News Corp (NYSE: NWS) is raising its stake in German cable and satellite TV provider Sky Deutschland AG—again. The media giant plans to invest up to…

Digital video technology company Widevine has raised $15 million in its latest round of funding. Samsung Ventures, cable operator Liberty Global and a third, undisclosed corporation provided the investment; Widevine’s release mentions the “second-largest satellite provider”—meaning it could be U.S.-based *DirecTV* or rival Dish Network. The investment comes amid increased…

The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement , the analytics initiative created by the major TV networks, agencies and advertisers, has chosen veteran media researcher Jane Clarke to lead the group on a day-to-day basis. Clarke was most recently VP of Insights and Innovation at Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Global Media…

Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) CEO Brian Roberts and GE CEO Jeff Immelt spent nearly 30 minutes this morning on CNBC—one of the assets Comcast hopes to control by this time next year.

Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is tapping TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) to develop the middleware and interface for its forthcoming line of “television and broadband” set top boxes, marking the DVR maker’s return to the UK after six years. More than that, Virgin is calling it a “TiVo co-branded product”. Cable provider…

Canadian cable giant Rogers Communications has launched an ad-supported online video service that THR is calling a “Canadianized Hulu.” But we think it’s more like one of the first viable attempts to launch a “TV Everywhere” service—since the premium, ad-supported video content will only be accessible to Rogers’ 2.3 million…