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[TV Squad] Tivo has been suffering in the marketplace due to so many people opting to purchase satellite systems with DVRs already included, as opposed to buying the stand alone Tivo boxes. A new lawsuit the company filed recently against EchoStar, however, could change that.

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[Replaytvblog.com] ReplayTVBlog.com: In the suit, TiVo claims that EchoStar violated a TiVo patent for a Multimedia Time Warping System. While this sounds like something out of Star Trek, it’s basically a patent on any device or system that allows a user to store a broadcast television program while simultaneously watching another television program —

http://cestockblog.com [Cestockblog.com] The Consumer Electronics Stock Blog » Full Transcript of TiVo’s ...: We are consistently seeing anecdotal evidence that one of the reasons that people like TiVo is its simplicity, its lack of a requirement that you have any tech savviness to use it, and that continues to be one of the things that we see resonating well with our existing base and certainly gives us confidence that as we market to the basic analog home, with the kind of explanations that we’ve been able to put into our marketing material that it’s really pretty easy click around the menu stuff that is totally consistent with anything anybody does with a remote control today. So we really do think that is not an impediment coupled with the fact that the returns are pretty encouraging that we have over the last number of months shifted the number of basic analog subs that seem to be coming forward as subscribers.

[Pvrwire.com] PVR Wire: In his opening statement, EchoStar attorney Harold McElhinny claimed the satellite provider devised its own PVR technology, which differs from TiVo's in several ways, not least of all that it doesn't translate analog signals into digital because satellite systems are already digital.

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