thomashawk.com — Today a Federal Appeals court upheld an important multi-million dollar patent win for TiVo. As part of the win, Dish will have to honor an injunction to turn off most of their customers DVRs. I hope that you like commercials while you watch "The Biggest Loser" Dish customers.
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dylantp20Apr 12, 2008
Actually directv dropped tivo and their current gen of dvr's suck giant monkey nuts to be quiet blunt with you....they are so worthless and buggy that I called them and demanded they replace it with something better, they promised they would ship me a unit from their "saved back tivo inventory" that they had kept for customers that didn't like dvr, I got the new dvr in the mail and lo and behold it was the exact same pile of crap as my previous one and had all the same flaws/bugs I called their tech support and they explained that there was simply no way they could control which model of dvr they ship me and I'd just have to deal with it....I'll deal with it until I can drop them and never return.....
Closed AccountApr 12, 2008
Maybe, but patents should just be granted more sparingly rather than for insignificant accomplishments. Or, perhaps for certain kinds of technology for example, patents could expire in just a few years (just enough to recoop the cost associated with developing it).
cquinndApr 12, 2008
That would depend on how Comcast DVRs were built. The main difference in the major Tivo patent was a form of hardware support for video processing that was fairly unique to their boxes. The same functionality could be built in other set top boxes without violating the patent, but would require more internal hardware and a somewhat faster mainboard to support as well. The biggest complaint of the Tivo lawsuits is that their design would have saved money in the building of set top units, which could have easily covered their license fees for partnerships with the major cable and sattelite companies that they had been seeking in the first place.
cquinndApr 12, 2008
Creating specialized hardware that assists with the process of recording video digitally and providing a useful interface and functionality for the viewing and management of shows is patentable.
grodriguApr 16, 2008
So people can be all excited about their stocks going up, but when my stocks are gonna go up for the same reasons, I get dugg down? WTF?!