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Millennials like watching people play video games

The fifth most popular type of video content millennials enjoy watching is … video of other people playing video games. That is one finding from a report this week by TiVo (TIVO) on the viewing habits of Americans, including the young demographic known as millennials. Millennials are the generation of people born between the early 1980s and early 2000s. In an average week, 6% of videos watched by millennials are of people playing video games. That compares with 1% among Generation X respondents and, for baby boomers … 0%. These statistics help explain why Amazon (AMZN) agreed to buy Twitch for $970 million on Aug. 25. Twitch is a streaming video platform, primarily focused on video games, including play-throughs of video games by users and live broadcasts of e-sports. Twitch gets about 45 million unique visitors a month. Amazon reportedly outbid Google (GOOGL) for Twitch. Google hosts a lot of…

TiVo Posts Big Subscriber Gains, Plans Stock Buybacks

Digital video recorder maker TiVo (TIVO) saw its stock rise Wednesday, a day after the company recorded better-than-expected earnings for its fiscal Q2 on a big gain in new subscribers. TiVo also announced a plan to spend $350 million to buy back its stock over the next 2.5 years. The company intends to repurchase $100 million in shares during the current fiscal year. TiVo stock was up 1% in morning trading on the stock market today, near 14 and

TiVo debuts set-top TV box for cord cutters to fill Aereo gap

Picking up where ill-fated Aereo left off, TiVo on Monday introduced a “legal” digital video recorder for over-the-air (OTA) television broadcasts. The set-top box is being marketed to consumers who do not have cable, satellite or telecom TV but still want a DVR. Aereo, backed by IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI), was crippled by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that said its service infringed on the rights of broadcasters. Aereo offered consumers ive and time-shifted over-the-air programming from Internet cloud-based DVRs and antennas. Consumers paid a subscription fee for renting remote antennas and data storage for free, over-the-air broadcast TV shows. Unlike Aereo, TiVo’s (TIVO) oamio OTA DVR requires users to own an in-home digital HD antenna. The Roamio device can record up to four HD shows at once and store up 75 hours of HD programming. But like Aereo, it gives consumers a new way to watch free broadcast television…