With a little over a week until a shareholder vote which could overthrow Xperi’s current board and derail its strategic roadmap, the media technology company has prematurely declared that an unnamed Japanese electronics brand will launch smart TVs with the TiVo OS, from June 2024. To highlight this forthcoming Q2 OEM deal as the headline act of the Q1 results filing is a sign of panic from Xperi, particularly given that the vendor does not receive license revenue directly from TV OEMs for TiVo OS. An accurate headline from Xperi would be to address that a total of $118.8 million revenue for Q1 2024 is the lowest quarterly total for the business since it was spun out as an independent…