http://davisfreeberg.com/2006/08/24/tivo-and-cox-make-it-official-tivo-has-new-cable-partnership/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:41:37 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://davisfreeberg.com/2006/08/24/tivo-and-cox-make-it-official-tivo-has-new-cable-partnership/comment-page-1/#comment-1675 Davis Freeberg’s Digital Connection - Motorola Puts Middleware On Their Holiday Wishlist Tue, 14 Nov 2006 03:34:23 +0000 http://davisfreeberg.com/2006/08/24/tivo-and-cox-make-it-official-tivo-has-new-cable-partnership/#comment-1675 [...] TiVo has set the gold standard for seemlessly integrating their software with cable and satellite video streams and they are currently in beta testing for a TiVo software download to Motorola boxes, but the company has been reluctant to sell out to other partners and they don’t have any experience building an IPTV solution for the phone companies. To top it all off, TiVo currently has three different poison pills in place, which would make a hostile takeover nearly impossible. The first prevents any company from buying more then 15% of TiVo in a hostile transaction, the second two are embedded in their contracts with Cox and Comcast which allow both cable partners to back out of their agreements, if TiVo changes hands. [...] [...] TiVo has set the gold standard for seemlessly integrating their software with cable and satellite video streams and they are currently in beta testing for a TiVo software download to Motorola boxes, but the company has been reluctant to sell out to other partners and they don’t have any experience building an IPTV solution for the phone companies. To top it all off, TiVo currently has three different poison pills in place, which would make a hostile takeover nearly impossible. The first prevents any company from buying more then 15% of TiVo in a hostile transaction, the second two are embedded in their contracts with Cox and Comcast which allow both cable partners to back out of their agreements, if TiVo changes hands. [...]

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