The combination of DirecTV's satellite service with products from subsidiary NDS, underscores News Corp.'s ambitions to spread its technology across its portfolio of companies globally. NDS also develops technology for BSkyB. DirecTV stepped down from TiVo's board last June creating speculation that the company would drop TiVo completely. TiVo Chief Executive Mike Ramsay told Reuters in Las Vegas that the company will continue to offer TiVo recorders to DirecTV customers and is currently developing new products for the service.
Currently seen by some to lag in the market for high-definition broadcasts, EchoStar plans to expand its HD lineup when it moves to the MPEG4 video standard, instead of the current MPEG2 standard, which doesn’t offer as good data compression. "The big mass push in HD for us will be this fall as we introduce MPEG4," said Charlie Ergen, chief executive of EchoStar.
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Written by: James Delahunty @ 6 Jan 2005 23:25