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Interesting News Dave Hasn’t Covered

[ Zatz Not Funny. . .] Never enough time”¦ Netflix talks small film distribution and movie downloads. (Business Week) Echostar, DirecTV, and WildBlue team for satellite...

April 13, 2006

TiVo and DirecTV make nice -- sort of

[Engadget] A new agreement between TiVo and DirecTV has the two companies on quasi-friendly terms, with TiVo promising three more years of service to DirecTV TiVos, and both companies promising not to mess each other over with patent rights. This comes on the tail of TiVo's suite against Echostar for patent infringement, so we can't help but thinking DirecTV decided to keep their TiVo enabled customers hooked up to monthly TiVo service, which was set to expire in about a year, in exchange for a bit of patent-related grace when it comes to their own DVRs.

Posted at 03:24 AM

October 23, 2005

What I miss about Tivo

[Mediacentric] I’ve been Tivo-less for about 7 months now, going from an old 1st generation 14 hour Tivo + a DirecTivo + SageTV, all fed by DirecTV, to a DishPlayer...

Posted at 03:20 AM

October 12, 2005

DirecTV to launch own DVR

[Digital Tech Life] Hmmm….this isn't good news for TiVo. The NYTimes is reporting that DirecTV will be launching their own DVR just in time for the holidays, even though the company still has an agreement with TiVo that doesn't run out until 2007. The terms of their agreement with TiVo has the satellite provider paying TiVO a monthly fee of $1.13 per TiVo subscriber. Common sense says that they'll want to put all their time and effort into pushing their own soon-to-be-released DVR. You can see some of their ads running on network and cable television, in newspapers, magazines, and on the radio. Their ad campaign will cost the company a reported $30 million.

Posted at 12:43 AM

October 09, 2005

Sharp adding HD DVRs to Aquos line

[HD Beat] Same with DirecTV - they use a Hughes "HR-10 250" that allows for recording simultaneous HD channels. It's been available for some time, too - most of 05, if I remember.

Posted at 09:53 PM

June 18, 2005

The Long Tail

[ Mediacentric] (One idea now under consideration at DirecTV is to provide these DVRs with an enormous 160-gigabyte recording capacity. The subscriber would only be told about 80 gigabytes, with the remaining 80 gigabytes reserved for encrypted movies.) Once the movies are placed on the DVRs, a customer “rents”

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June 17, 2005

DirecTV Update Sparks TiVo Tizzy

[ PVR Spot: PVR news, DIY PVR, reviews, tivo, replay tv and more] From Wired: A recent software upgrade to DirecTV receivers has infuriated TiVo users who say the change disabled their beloved digital video recorders...

Posted at 09:33 AM

June 15, 2005

DirecTV already messing with TiVo

[Blog-A-Rama] Especially since 2/3 of all TiVo subscribers are really DirecTV subscribers. As you’ll see from the article, DirecTV is swearing their latest update that broke some features for some subscribers using a specific TiVo set up was unintentional. We’ll see”¦ Wired News: DirecTV Update Sparks TiVo Tizzy A recent software upgrade to DirecTV receivers has infuriated TiVo users who say the change disabled their beloved digital video recorders ”” and has sparked conspiratorial theories that DirecTV disabled them on purpose.

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