Rogers to unveil new NextBox Tuesday

TORONTO – Rogers Communications will unveil the latest iteration of its NextBox TV Tuesday afternoon in Toronto. NextBox 2.0, made available to subscribers in 2012, provided whole home DVR services, allowed tablet users to stream over 20 channels of live TV to their tablets using their Wi-Fi connection and offered an intuitive interactive program guide and new on-demand portal. NextBox (will it be 3.0?) is based on the Cisco Videoscape platform, whose latest update, called Unity, features more engaging multiscreen experiences, more options to personalize, the ability to push contextual content and targeted ads related to TV programming to companion...