EchoStar Sued Over TiVo Patent
from the No-Justice dept
It seems like TiVo is really in trouble. First, people are suggesting that its service needs to be regulated. Now, TiVo is suing EchoStar out of desperation. According to their CEO, TiVo's patent for letting people watch TV while recording another channel needs to be aggressively protected. So instead of concentrating on making their service better, they're suing other DVR services. Seems to me that a TiVo competitor could use a picture-in-picture feature that predates TiVo to circumvent the patent.
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Re: EchoStar Sued Over TiVo Patent
> protected. ... Seems to me that a TiVo competitor could use a
> picture-in-picture feature that predates TiVo to circumvent the
> patent.
Seems to me that for 2-1/2 decades people with VCRs have been
watching one channel while recording another. Must be something
more to their patent than merely that concept.
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Frankly,, the only way I see Tivo and ReplayTV surviving in the long run is with patents; I can't see how they can compete with cable/satellite companies giving away boxes for free. The only other possibility I se is for Tivo to sell a DVR+ service, since software is really where Tivo still has a big lead.
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