amungusPremium
join:2004-11-26
America Reviews:
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| wonder if A person could actually buy the thing outright instead of having to rent it.
Also wonder if Tivo (or somebody else) is going to try suing them for this too...
Funny how they supposedly already have a good DVR for the sat. service too... and now they're making one for cable companies. At least there's some competition out there now instead of the same old same old that's been on the market for so long. Don't get me wrong, my Moto DVR is alright, sure, but I've always wondered how much better it could really be if there were more choices (and I refuse to "buy" a tivo, only to pay a subscription anyway...)
What I would really like to see most is more digital cable channels "in the clear" - to be "cable ready" in the digital age seems difficult compared to analog...
One should be able to plug in a new TV and tune digital channels that are also "in the clear" in analog.
This would also open up home-brew media centers again.
I think we can all understand "premium" channels being scrambled/encrypted - but to only have the major networks unencrypted is kind of unfair... One should not have to rent a box, or a cable card for "expanded" basic channels; it is a giant step backwards.
One can dream.
Until then, glad to hear of some competition with some cool features! |
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| Tivo cant sue most of there software they are using is and should be open source ...how quickly they forget. |
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:5
 ·Frontier FiOS
| reply to amungus
said by amungus:Also wonder if Tivo (or somebody else) is going to try suing them for this too... Echostar/Dish and Tivo already went several rounds of lawsuits with Tivo ultimately winning over $100m in penalties and interest and got Dish to change some of their DVRs code base to not infringe on their patents. Other DVRs (Model 721 and others IIRC) also were being replaced by Dish at no charge I believe due to the patent lawsuit.
While Dish still has some retaliatory-like lawsuits still pending, they would be foolish to again use tivo-patented technologies. |
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| reply to chronoss2009
What are you talking about?
The software that TiVo uses is proprietary. Their software just happens to RUN on Linux, their software was never open source and isn't based on Linux or anything open source. Linux is the operating system they chose to use.
That's like saying that Oracle DB server should be open source because Oracle has a version that runs on Linux.
Not to mention that TiVo has ALREADY sued Echostar and won over DVR patents. |
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