TiVo Statement on Decision by U.S. Court of Appeals to Stay Permanent Injunction Issued by District

TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO), the creator of and leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVR), today announced that U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted the request of EchoStar Communications Corp. (“ECC”) to stay the permanent injunction imposed by the U.S. District Court to prevent ECC from making, using, offering for sale or selling in the United States the DVR products involved in the case (DP-501, DP-508, DP-510, DP-721, DP-921, DP-522, DP-625, DP-942, and all EchoStar DVRs that are not more than colorably different from any of these products) pending the outcome of ECC’s appeal.

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Did anyone host or attend a TiVo House Party?

The TiVo House Party was this weekend – anyone out there host or attend one? How was it?

The House Party promo is online. Not a bad deal – An 80-hour S2 for $14.95/month or an 80-hour S2DT for $30 + $14.95/month, both with a one year commitment. The one year deal is normally $19.95/month, so that’s a $60 savings off the standard TiVo.com bundle.

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Sony to patch Blu-ray burners for BD-ROM playback

Sony’s BWU-100A Blu-ray Disc burner will this month gain the ability to play pre-recorded BD discs, the consumer electronics giant has revealed. The fix will come courtesy of an update to the copy of CyberLink PowerDVD bundled with the internal drive.

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Toshiba touts laptop-friendly HD DVD burner

Toshiba has launched a slimline HD DVD drive for notebook computers in a bid to boost support for the next-generation optical disc format. The drawer-mechanism unit not only reads and writes all the usual DVD and CD formats, but also HD DVD recordable and rewriteable media.

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TiVo, Linux, and the GPL

Nicholas Petreley over at Linux Journal has a couple of good blog entries about the furor around TiVo, Linux, and the GPL:
A fight against evil or a fight for attention?
The Pet Peevo with TiVo

Warning, geeky content. :-)

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