DISH Network can't stop, won't stop fighting TiVo, heads to Supreme Court; your DVR is safe
DISH Network hasn't taken "no" "denied" or "not yours" for an answer before in its battle against TiVo, and it's not going to start now. In a statement, the company expressed its plans to appeal the Federal Circuit's ruling against a rehearing to the Supreme Court. No matter how it ends, customers don't have to worry about jackbooted government agents (or software updates, whatever) stealing their precious DISH DVR functionality, because its "next generation" DVR software has already been downloaded to your box, and does not infringe on any patents. We'll leave this up to the lawyers to fight out (and write amusing disclaimers about), but in the meantime hit the read link to hear DISH's side of things.[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Filed under: Industry, HD DVD, Set-top boxes, Satellite
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ethertoad @ Apr 11th 2008 8:08PM
Why the hell is this filed under HD DVD?
Killer @ Apr 11th 2008 9:23PM
LMFAO...good point.
andy @ Apr 12th 2008 12:08PM
The supreme court takes like 5% of the cases that are petitioned for review. This is not a precedent setting case in a confused area of the law.
The chances of this actually bein heard by the Court are 0%. This is more dead than HDDVD, hence the tag.
andy @ Apr 12th 2008 12:08PM
check