TiVo has announced that it will hold a press conference on March 2nd in New York that will reveal "significant news" on the company's future plans.
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Ouch! DISH to pay $104 Million to TIVO
Posted October 7th, 2008 by barkley
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Could things be going any worse for DISH Network who has just announced it would pay $104 million to TIVO for stealing its DVR patent? The satellite television broadcaster was sued in 2004 and found guilty in 2006. Yesterday DISH said they would pay, but it appears the appeals will continue.
In a statement DISH said, "Because of the Supreme Court’s decision, we will pay TiVo approximately $104 million (the amount the jury awarded in 2006 plus interest). The money is in an escrow account and will be released to TiVo in the next few days."
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DTV transition test fails in Wilmington
Posted September 9th, 2008 by J.Stuart
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Residents of Wilmington, NC were in shock yesterday when they couldn't receive analog television signals. The city presented a test of what the Feb. '09 DTV transition would be like, and the test failed miserably.
Bloomberg news reported on the event, saying residents flooded the city's phone lines. "Our phone lines were lit up for an hour straight between noon and one," said Thomas Postema, general manager of WSFX, the Wilmington Fox affiliate.
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What's TiVo's Little Secret?
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TV’s Third Dimension
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3D TV Looks Cool — But When Will Viewers Be Ready?Announcements of new 3D TV efforts dominated last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, as vendors salivated over the chance to grow a new high-end product category now that HD has gone mainstream.
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CES 2010: Hands on with ActiveVideo’s CloudTV
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ActiveVideo isn’t a content provider, and they’re not selling a set-top box. You can think of them more as a distribution network like Boxee. The difference is that with ActiveVideo, you don’t need an external box or HTPC. You just need to access the cloud.
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3D specs finalized for Blu-ray, to hit market next year
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Blu-ray finally got its 3D specs completed, and players, discs and HDTVs are expected to start hitting the consumer market sometime in 2010. According to Sony the specs will be backwards compatible, allowing 2D discs to still play on 3D Blu-ray players, as well as allow 3D discs to play on current market 2D Blu-ray players (of course only in 2D).
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Time Warner May Lose Fox Stations Friday
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Time Warner Cable this Friday seems likely to lose the right to carry Fox-owned local stations in several key markets, reports Variety magazine. The cable operator and Fox are battling over a new transmission consent agreement and Variety writes that they can't even agree in public on whether negotiations are ongoing.
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Cablevision (CVC) Is A Highly Recommended Stock Pick - Analyst
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The Wall Street Transcript has just published Luxury Goods, Entertainment, Toys & Games Report offering a timely review of the Media sector. his Special Report contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews with public company CEOs, Equity Analysts and Money Managers. Please find an excerpt below.
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DirecTV to debut world's first 3D HDTV channel
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DirecTV's launching a new satellite tonight, giving them beaucoups bandwidth for the world's first all-HD 3D channel. The satellite provider plans to populate that channel with movies, sports and other 3D programs.
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Hulu may begin charging to view TV on web
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Free Video on Demand service via the web (Web-VOD) may take a huge popularity hit should Comcast Corp. move forward in a possible merger of assets that includes NBC-Universal’s Bravo, SyFy (formerly SciFi) and Hulu.com properties.
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