What will change with the acquisition of the new "TIVO"? The future of searching for programs and using data -AV Watch

　TIVO has a private exhibition in conjunction with the "CEATEC JAPAN 2016", and the company's technologies and services, such as EPG's "G Guide HTML", "FAN TV", and metadata for sports, and broadcasting operators.Introduced to the people involved.

　Tivo is known for a recorder (DVR) of a TV program that has been deployed in the United States and other countries since 1999, and has been responding to time shifts that can be watched from the beginning.The service is provided to manage various contents such as many broadcasts/CATV/net distribution with one record, making it easier to find the target program.

　As previously reported, Tivo was acquired by Rovi in September and integrated the business of the two companies by taking over the company name "TIVO".Services such as ROVI have G -guides will also be deployed as a Tivo brand.

　When adding the function of the recorder itself, there are also generous services that collect and reflect users, and are still very popular with overseas core users.The price of the recorder "TIVO BOLT" of the recorder sold in the United States and other countries is 500GB model..$ 99, a network service 14 per month.It is offered for $ 99.

　TIVO is currently developing more than 500 paid TV services to more than 25 million households in 70 countries.On the other hand, overseas, where "TV recording" is not common compared to Japan, the number of households buys recorders is limited, and the number of recorders users in the United States is about 1 million.

　Under these circumstances, Tivo's recorder is offered not only in the company, but also via a service provider, such as "Directivo" by television service DirectV.It is said that such collaboration with service providers has become an important profit for TIVO.

　Therefore, the acquisition of TIVO by the old ROVI is aimed at having its own hardware to become familiar to consumers, but rather than simply expanding the sales of recorders, "CATV/Television Station Service providers such as" service providers.It has a significant meaning in strengthening cooperation with.

　In addition, the two companies with EPG services can be omitted by becoming one, and the market is "promised to the market to cut costs over 10 billion yen."The two companies have many patents, and one of Tivo's patents is famous for the "time warp" that regenerates while recording.

　Some domestic recorder users may expect Tivo recorders in Japan in the future, but for the above reasons, at least TIVOs are likely to be released in -house.It doesn't look like.

　One of the unique Tivo functions is "Personal Recomination".For example, if there is a program that you want to see in the search results in program search, etc., you can move to viewing and recording reservations, but programs that meet the expectations of users will not always be displayed on the list.The Tivo recorder has a "thumb -up/down" button on the remote control, and if it matches the search results, press the thumb up, if it is different, press Samdown.The result is accumulated and reflected in the search result display.The more data you gather, the more you can search for the user's actual sensation.If these unique features have been introduced to television itself and services in addition to Tivo recorders by this integration, convenience is likely to be high.

　The "G Guide" on the program guide, which has previously been worked on as a ROVI, has been installed on TV, and has been adopted on the TV of Sharp AQUOS, which was released in March.

　The latest "G Guide HTML" uses data on the Internet, and has evolved significantly from program guides only for broadcast wave data, such as being able to search for other programs from programs.In addition, from the current television program table, it is also realized by simple operations, such as searching for the past broadcast times of the drama that I missed before with VOD services such as CATV and shifting to viewing.

　These functions are also possible in cooperation with abundant metadata and service providers, and if UIs that can search for your favorite content with stress -free operation evolve in the future, it will be a great benefit for end users.。