Kasenna has launched TimelessTV, a network-based personal video recorder feature for its MediaBase XMP video server line and other Linux-based servers running MediaBase.
TimelessTV leverages the company’s vForge video service development framework and enables NPVR services for broadband service providers, hospitality chains, MTU/MDU owners, and organizations of all sizes.
Products like TiVo have been popular with consumers since they allow them to watch what they want to watch, when they want to watch it. However, consumer devices such as TiVo and set-top boxes with hard drives are costly to deploy and adoption has been slow, according to Kasenna. With network-based personal video recording enabled by Kasenna’s TimelessTV , video network operators can give their subscribers the power to pause and resume live TV broadcasts, as well as to record, pause, rewind, and fast-forward through previously recorded shows, all without having to buy and install set-top boxes with hard disk storage. Because TimelessTV is based in the service provider’s own operations center, the product allows customers to order and activate recording services immediately without changing their equipment. In addition, service providers can offer NPVR service on a free-trial basis and then immediately convert users to paying customers without shipping equipment or rolling a truck.
