Despite TiVo emerging victorious with an $18.5m bid for MobiTV, beating six other companies to the prize including Amino, Swiss IP video provider Zattoo is hovering on the periphery waiting for juicy offcuts that could provide it with a route into the lucrative US market in which it currently only has a single customer in the form of Hotwire Communications, a service provider on the east coast. Zattoo’s CEO Niklas Brambring has revealed that MobiTV is one of several options for the company to gain a foothold in the US. However, now that TiVo has won the auction to take MobiTV out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Zattoo may have to engage directly with TiVo parent company Xperi about forging a…