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| Re: If you can't beat them... Nice slant.
Ergen doesn't like to get ripped off on content--- DISH CUSTOMERS WIN. We get content, prices stay lower. DISH didn't rip off TIVO--- TIVO just got some broad patents granted on DVR features which happened to apply to DISH's DVR's that they developed on their own. And TIVO is no saint... ReplayTV, prior art anyone?
Now TIVO is free to go after Cable and Telco DVR type boxes. We shall see. And as for your expectations that DTV kills DISH.... DISH has been profitable. Has DTV ever turned a profit yet?
You know what happens when you assume...
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| | | | | Re: If you can't beat them... Exactly! I for one appreciate that Dish fights content distributors to keep the prices down while shareholders still have ROI. This is how a business OUGHT to work!
I'm paying $70/mo on Dish for what I paid $150/mo for on cable+TiVO. | |
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| | | | Sorta like that Satellite Radio that is slowly going in the toilet--never seen a profit and probably never will. Why? The radio in your car is free
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Milledgeville, GA | Tivo blows Yep, apparently only one company is supposed to be allowed to offer an onscreen guide with recording ability. I'm sure Tivo has patented nearly every button on the remote control and the order and manner by which they're accessed.
I'll take my Dish recorder over a Tivo box any day.
For my non-satellite sources, I use a multi-tuner box running GBPVR 
It's absurdly easy to get a patent -- you just need a concept, not a method!
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| | | Re: Tivo blows Doesn't have anything to do with the guide, has to do with the "time warp". At the time that TiVo patented it, it was a very revolutionary idea.
If you look at the history of TiVo / Dish it is pretty clear that Dish simply stole the tech inside the dev box TiVo sent to them. This entire thing is from the Series 1 days.
TiVo didn't just go after Dish because they felt like it (and not every other DVR manufacture out there), they went after them because it is obvious they ganked the tech. | |
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kudos:4 | Re: Tivo blows said by wanderance:Doesn't have anything to do with the guide, has to do with the "time warp". At the time that TiVo patented it, it was a very revolutionary idea. If you look at the history of TiVo / Dish it is pretty clear that Dish simply stole the tech inside the dev box TiVo sent to them. This entire thing is from the Series 1 days. TiVo didn't just go after Dish because they felt like it (and not every other DVR manufacture out there), they went after them because it is obvious they ganked the tech. I agree. Not all patents are bogus. TIVO did create the original DVR and Dish flat out stole out. They SHOULD have to pay royalties.
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| Re: Tivo blows said by Romney2012:I agree. Not all patents are bogus. This one is. Obviousness is supposed to be a consideration. And TIVO was well behind ReplayTV.TIVO did create the original DVR and Dish flat out stole out. They SHOULD have to pay royalties. So says TIVO. I seriously doubt it. Ergen is not stupid. The patent is.
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Painesville, OH | Re: Tivo blows How is the patent stupid? | |
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kudos:4 | Re: Tivo blows said by KrK:It shouldn't exist, for reasons including prior art, and obviousness. The court evidently disagrees with you. In fact now 2 courts disagree, because the appeals court upheld the trial court.
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| Re: Tivo blows said by Romney2012:said by KrK:It shouldn't exist, for reasons including prior art, and obviousness. The court evidently disagrees with you. In fact now 2 courts disagree, because the appeals court upheld the trial court. The court also approved a lawsuit to McDonalds for having their coffee too hot. *rolls eyes* | |
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Tulsa, OK | Yes, the Court disagrees with Justice and what is right all the time. As for the Appeals Court, that means little because all they rule on is if an error was made in the procedure of the first trial, and don't actually deal with the issue at hand. | |
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1 edit | said by KrK:This one is. Obviousness is supposed to be a consideration. And TIVO was well behind ReplayTV. Both companies were created in 1997.
Replay TV launched two months before Tivo.
I'll let others judge if two months is "well behind". | |
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| Re: Tivo blows said by Thespis:I'll let others judge if two months is "well behind". True, but prior art is prior art, and once the first DVR features were being created, the so called "Time-warp" feature becomes an obvious extension of the technology. In reality, all these DVR's (ReplayTV, TIVO, Echostar's) were being developed with similar features by different people at the same time. Nobody "stole" anything. TIVO just got the patent on a "feature" and is going sue happy.
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E*'s first DVR (they actually called it a PVR) was the DishPlayer 2400. It came out about the same time as Tivo. It was a piece of crap that ran Microsoft software and had to be babysat daily. It also had a whopping 8 hours of record time. I sold mine on Ebay for a tidy sum.
The DVR that E* was sued over was the one they developed in house well after Tivo was established with DirecTV. | |
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| Re: Tivo blows Yes, I stated that already.... However, the feature the patent and lawsuit is based on was already in use and had been developed by other DVR's.
I'm not disagreeing that TIVO got the patent, I just think the patent should be invalidated... which of course would end the lawsuit. Unlikely to occur as well. Echostar is getting ripped off.
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Keller, TX | Re: Tivo blows Echostar violated a valid patent. Period.
They are not getting ripped off.
Corporations can't just disregard patent law because they think a patent should never have been given. | |
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| said by KrK:said by Romney2012:I agree. Not all patents are bogus. This one is. Obviousness is supposed to be a consideration. And TIVO was well behind ReplayTV. If they were "well behind" replay, then how on earth did they make it to market several months ahead of Replay?
BTW, many of TiVo's patents were "stupid," hence their being lost on patent office re-examination. The "time warp" patent wasn't obvious, or they would have lost it, too.
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| Re: Tivo blows said by wierdo:If they were "well behind" replay, then how on earth did they make it to market several months ahead of Replay? Well, they must of used that Patented Time-Warp feature to leap ahead, ReplayTV came out in January 1999, and Tivo's first unit was April, so in a non-time warped universe, ReplayTV was first.
Once the DVR was out, and time-shifting, pausing, jumping forward to real time, etc were all out the so-called "time warp" feature becomes an obvious extension of the technology.
Echostar's first DVR's were built on Microsoft software and didn't actually get released until a few months after TIVO, however Echostar had been showing off the hardware while waiting on the software for months.
The simple fact is these DVR's were developed at the same time. Nobody stole or copied someone else's code, but TIVO was granted a patent on a feature that was common to them all, and now is going sue-happy.
It's a common problem.
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| said by wanderance:Doesn't have anything to do with the guide, has to do with the "time warp". At the time that TiVo patented it, it was a very revolutionary idea. ReplayTV. | |
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Naperville, IL | Re: Tivo blows What about them? TiVo had units in customers' hands before they did. | |
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kudos:4 | Re: Tivo blows said by KrK:ReplayTV beat TIVO to market. They both came on the scene pretty close together. TIVO was second, a few months behind ReplayTV. 1st to market is not relevant to patent law.
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| Re: Tivo blows said by Romney2012:1st to market is not relevant to patent law. Nope.... but prior art or obviousness is... supposed to be. | |
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Painesville, OH | I find it completely reasonable that 2 companies can create different technologies to complete the same task (Replay/Tivo).
When a 3rd party comes along and uses any of that technology, without prior arrangement, that's patent infringement.
Either way, it would be nice if Tivo and Directv had some adequate competition to keep my Directv prices down.
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|  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
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kudos:4 | said by MooJohn:Yep, apparently only one company is supposed to be allowed to offer an onscreen guide with recording ability. I'm sure Tivo has patented nearly every button on the remote control and the order and manner by which they're accessed. I'll take my Dish recorder over a Tivo box any day. For my non-satellite sources, I use a multi-tuner box running GBPVR It's absurdly easy to get a patent -- you just need a concept, not a method! tivo sucks. thumbs up
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|  QumahlinNever Enough TimePremium,MVM
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1 edit | said by MooJohn:It's absurdly easy to get a patent -- you just need a concept, not a method! You've clearly never applied for a patent. Not that i'm defending the USA's shit patent system, but I can assure you it's a little more difficult then just having a concept | |
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kudos:2 | said by Subaru:More space junk... The fault here lies with the insurance company. They should tell Dish Network to see if any country is willing to buy the satellite. You never know, Russia or China, may be interested in it. | |
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| | KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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Tulsa, OK | Re: just great... Dish network doesn't own it. SES does. Echostar was going to lease capacity on it. Which obviously they won't be doing now. And "being retired" probably means it will be de-orbited soon. | |
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| Dish!= SES Americom owns AMC-14. Boeing claims a patent on the process that SES can use to recover the satellite and there's a lawsuit between the two involving other crap so Boeing is playing the patent card. Most likely because of this patent no one else is going to want to buy the bird and it will make someones wish soon.
Dish is not Echostar, separate companies.
The software infringing on the Tivo patent(s) was on old Dish recorders and has been updated to something different. It's also a good example of something stupidly obvious being allowed to be patented. Should we have patents on manipulating {future desirable content delivery} in a way that allows the user to enhance their {future buzzwordy named action} experience? (we will with the idiots approving patents now)
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EchoStar Corporation (EchoStar), formerly EchoStar Holding Corporation, will operate two primary businesses: digital set-top box business and a fixed satellite services business. EchoStar had a spin-off from DISH Network on January 1, 2008. The Company’s set-top box business designs, develops and distributes set-top boxes and related products for direct-to-home satellite service providers. EchoStar’s set-top boxes are sold to DISH Network, but it also sold a number of set-top boxes to Bell ExpressVu and other international customers. EchoStar’s fixed satellite services business is developed using its eight owned or leased in-orbit satellites and related The Federal Communications Commission licenses, a network of seven full service digital broadcast centers, and leased fiber optic capacity with points of presence in approximately 150 cities.
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EchoStar Corporation (EchoStar), formerly EchoStar Holding Corporation, will operate two primary businesses: digital set-top box business and a fixed satellite services business. EchoStar had a spin-off from DISH Network on January 1, 2008. The Company’s set-top box business designs, develops and distributes set-top boxes and related products for direct-to-home satellite service providers. EchoStar’s set-top boxes are sold to DISH Network, but it also sold a number of set-top boxes to Bell ExpressVu and other international customers. EchoStar’s fixed satellite services business is developed using its eight owned or leased in-orbit satellites and related The Federal Communications Commission licenses, a network of seven full service digital broadcast centers, and leased fiber optic capacity with points of presence in approximately 150 cities.
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Dishnetwork completely SUCKS in every catagory. Their equipment is way over engineered to simply watch TV with so many damn dishes and switches and converters and complex DVR functions, most consumers can't figure how to operate them anyway....
Dishnetwork will soon be called "Deathnetwork" as they slowly die and dissapear. And when they do (die) I will be the first to dance at their funeral.
So now all you guys can sit back and say I have no idea what I'm talking about and how wrong I am and Dishnetwork is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but.... in two years, just remember you heard it here from me first. And when it DOES happen you can sit back and say, "yeah I remember that guy sayin that". | |
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| License to Sue Attorneys in this country call a patent a "license to sue". Like every other decision in the justice system, the outcome is determined by the depth of the pockets of the antagonists. I would guess that TiVo and DishTv have similar resources to throw at the question of ownership, so real justice may be done here after the expenditure of $10sM in attorneys' fees.
"General" David Sarnoff of RCA managed to delay the debut of television for two decades by spurious, but continuous patent actions against Philo T. Farnsworth, the actual inventor of the cathode ray scanning tube, thus ensuring the dominance of radio, whose patents were in his pocket. He caused Edwin Armstrong, the inventor of FM, (specifically, the amplification technology that made it stable and useful), to commit suicide by his unrelenting, unfounded patent suits.
This perversion of the justice system is uniquely American. It is, in fact, "The American Rule", which states that, unlike every other country in the world, litigators pay their own costs, win or lose. Everywhere else, the loser pays the winner's costs. So, if you have the money, you can prolong cases indefinitely by filing "procedures" until your opponent goes bankrupt or until everyone who cares is dead.
Guess which professional class made up the rule?
What was the topic of this thread?
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Mullica Hill, NJ | Re: License to Sue the problem is the idea of the patent is a great thing, but today such broad patents are allowed that you could devlop something totally different in design and still get sued. i mean the edison lightbulb patent today would be filed as "Device for illuminating by electric power" basicly making sure that all forms of light bulbs would have to pony up a license or the company would get sued.
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| | Wow! there is a lot of mis-inforamtion out there It is just amazing how many people out there claim to "Know" what is going on. How many of you work for Dish or Echostar and really know whats up?
Lets see a show of hands? Anybody.....
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| Re: I love my VIP-722 Dish DVR said by TuPaK:f*** tivo, I will never purchase or subscribe to any of their products. You won't? Where will TiVo get their future income from if you don't? Oh yeah... from the $100 mil from dish network.
HAHAHAHAHA
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| Re: I love my VIP-722 Dish DVR said by mahermusic:said by TuPaK:f*** tivo, I will never purchase or subscribe to any of their products. You won't? Where will TiVo get their future income from if you don't? Oh yeah... from the $100 mil from dish network. HAHAHAHAHA lol | |
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| | Cables a much better choice Oh well were all better off with high definition from Comcast cable anyhow. | |
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Vallejo, CA | Re: Cables a much better choice Well come on folks in this day when you can get a patent for one click shopping and such . Tivo should win and dish just pay up | |
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| Re: Cables a much better choice said by martyp:Well come on folks in this day when you can get a patent for one click shopping and such . Tivo should win and dish just pay up It's just as bad as having patents on digitizing voice into data packets and routing it over an IP based network, as in Verizon vs. everyone else.
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| | | said by floydb1982:Oh well were all better off with high definition from Comcast cable anyhow. HD from comcast.....with there highly compressed HD feeds....Might as well toss your new TV out the window | |
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