Money may not buy you love, but it can apparently buy you an exclusive for TiVo’s March 2nd secret product, according to a leaked memo from Best Buy. TiVo blogger Dave Zatz received a copy of the memo from an anonymous source and and while we haven’t received confirmation that the memo is legit, it [...]
Posted on February 28th, 2010 by Davis
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The US patent office must have gotten their hard drives unpaused, because hot on the heels of winning a patent related to closed captions on a DVR, TiVo has been awarded another patent at the heart of the DVR experience. With the application having been filed in October of 1999, it took the USPTO over [...]
Posted on February 18th, 2010 by Davis
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TiVo doesn’t know whether or not their injunction against Dish’s DVR will hold up yet, but that hasn’t stopped them from adding to their patent portfolio in the meantime. In a remarkable filing with the USPTO, TiVo appears to have now won an important patent for displaying closed caption information to DVR customers. In addition [...]
Posted on February 11th, 2010 by Davis
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Posted on February 10th, 2010 by Davis
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Posted on January 26th, 2010 by Davis
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A couple of months back, I received my monthly bill from Comcast and almost had a heart attack. Over the course of one month, my bill went up over 50% and while I’ll admit to loving TV more than your average bear, after years of fee increases, it became hard to justify paying over $50 [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2010 by Davis
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There’s been quite a bit written on how consumers are interacting with TiVo, but there hasn’t been a lot said about how businesses are beginning to use TiVo. Over the past few years, it’s been no secret that TiVo has been beefing up their audience research capabilities and while having access to second by second [...]
Posted on October 28th, 2009 by Davis
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During their ten year history, TiVo’s obituary has been written more times than I’ve sat through an entire commercial, yet no matter how tough the climb has been, TiVo has continued to defy critics and skeptics alike by chugging along (as if by sheer will at times.) Even though the financial wiz kids over at [...]
Posted on July 21st, 2009 by Davis
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I hate to admit it, but I’m feeling a little foolish right now. Last week, I raised the question of whether or not Dish was researching a hostile takeover of TiVo? In my article, I concluded that they might try, but that they’d never be able to afford the $7.5 billion poison pill that came [...]
Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Davis
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It’s been over 5 years since TiVo filed their patent lawsuit against Dish, but we’re finally reaching the endgame of what has been an epic chess match between the two companies. Between the he said/she said arguments that have played out in the press to the endless legal maneuvers by both camps, it has been [...]
Posted on June 9th, 2009 by Davis
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