A Slow News Day In Illinois?
I think Wednesday must have been a slow news day in Illinois. WCIA Channel 3 decided to do a little filler news piece on the DISH Network vs. TiVo patent suit. It’s a little chopping on the details,...
View ArticleGet The DISH Network DTVPalTR-40 CRA Digital Converter Box, Free With Coupon
Back at CES, EchoStar announced the TR-40 ATSC digital converter with an expected MSRP of $39.99. That would make it free after the $40 government coupon. Then it appeared to be rebranded as the DISH...
View ArticleDISH Network Offers All SD & HD Content Via MPEG-4 AVC
DISH Network now offers all of the standard- and high-definition programming via MPEG-4 AVC in 21 markets: Cleveland, OH; Richmond, VA; Baltimore, MD; Columbia, SC; Tampa, FL; Green Bay, WI;...
View ArticleAll 1080p Content Is Not The Same
I’ve said it before, and I will probably say it again, all 1080p content is not the same. There is more to picture quality than lines of resolution or pixel count, bit rate is equally important, if not...
View ArticleSupreme Court Declines To Hear DISH’s Appeal
The US Supreme Court today declined to hear DISH Network’s appeal of TiVo’s patent victory, effectively upholding the ruling. DISH Network will now pay TiVo $104 million, the amount awarded by the jury...
View ArticleDISH Network Pays TiVo $104.6 Million
Following the Supreme Court’s decision Monday not to hear the case, DISH Network yesterday paid TiVo $104,600,472. That covers the initial $74 million damages award, plus interest and supplemental...
View ArticleDish Network DTVPal DVR Due This Month
In a larger article in TWICE about the Community Broadcasters Association (CBA) joining with Dish Network to promote their digital-to-analog converter boxes was a little nugget I found interesting.Dish...
View ArticleTiVo And EchoStar Continue Their Legal Dance
On Thursday the United States District Court of Texas set a date for a bench hearing to decide of EchoStar and DISH Network’s software workaround makes their DVRs non-infringing to TiVo’s patents, as...
View ArticleDish Network Looking For Jury Angle With TiVo
On November 20th the U.S. District Court of Texas set a date of February 17, 2009 for a bench trial to determine if EchoStar’s software is still infringing on TiVo’s patents. But now, according to the...
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G4 & CNET Love The EchoStar HD DuoDVR SlingLoaded ViP 922
The EchoStar HD DuoDVR SlingLoaded ViP 922 won CNET’s “Best of CES” today, and two of G4’s judging panelists, Attack of the Show host Kevin Pereira and Wired’s Chris Hardwick, both picked EchoStar’s...
View ArticleDISH Network And TiVo Trade Another Round
In the ongoing patent spat between DISH Network & EchoStar and TiVo there has been another exchange. First DISH Network issued this statement:DISH Network Corporation (Nasdaq: DISH) and EchoStar...
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Monsoon Multimedia Looks to License Their Tech To Other CE Vendors
Monsoon Multimedia, best known as the scrappy David to Sling Media’s Goliath in the placesifting market, has announced that they’re looking to licensing their placeshifting and multi-screen...
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Speculation on the Google-Motorola Deal and TiVo
I just made a pretty damn long post about the Google buyout of Motorola Mobility. But there was one other aspect that I felt was better off in a separate post. And here it is.This acquisition has...
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Is Dish Network Having Employees Spam Blogs? (Like This One.)
At first I thought it was an isolated incident or two, but I’m starting to think Dish Network may be actively having people spam blogs to promote their services. The latest offense is from my post on...
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Sherman, set the WABAC machine to 1999!
TechnoBuffalo had a great post today with a look back at the very, very early days of the DVR via this video from The Today Show in 1999. This is when DVRs, then still generally called PVRs (Personal...
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Dish Network Employees Haven’t Changed Their Spamming Ways
Last month I posted about Dish Network employees spamming blogs across the net, and it looks like they’re still at it. Tonight there was a comment on one of my posts mirrored to LiveJournal, made from...
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EchoStar Preparing a Network DVR
EchoStar hasn’t been very successful in breaking into the US STB market. They, of course, continue to supply hardware to sister company Dish Network, but one of the objectives of splitting the...
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AllThingsD: Dish Network Approves of Employees Spamming Blogs
Well, I’m not the only blogger being spammed by Dish Network, they’re doing it to the big boys too, and Peter Kafka over at AllThingsD got fed up with it.I’m talking about comments like these, which...
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TiVo Racks Up Another Patent Win – $215+ Million From AT&T
When TiVo settled their long-running patent lawsuit against DISH Network and EchoStar for $500 million back in May it did more than just settle the one suit. It also strengthened TiVo’s hand when...
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Dish Network Gets Hopped Up On MoCA
One of the recent bits of news out of CES was DISH Networks introduction of their whole-home DVR. Rather than model number like DirecTV’s oh-so-catchy HR34, they’ve reached down under to give their...
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DISH Network’s Hopper Whole-Home DVR Now Available
DISH Network’s recently announced Hopper whole-home DVR, and the Joey companion units, are now available to customers. The Hopper is a unique design with three tuners, but with a trick up its sleeve...
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DISH Network TV Anywhere
As part of their new YouTube channel I mentioned in my last post, DISH Network has also published several videos highlighting their ‘TV Anywhere’ feature. TV Anywhere brings Sling Media’s technology...
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DISH Network Hopper Ad Campaign
I won’t go into the product features of the DISH Network Hopper, since I’ve already done that, this post is about the ad campaign. I’ve seen three TV spots for the Hopper so far – which are the three...
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DISH Network Goes Full Bore With The ‘Boston’ Hopper Ad Campaign
When DISH Network launched their new Hopper multi-room DVR they ran a few different ads. But the one that seems to have struck the strongest chord is the ‘Boston’ ad. It seems like DISH noticed as...
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JVC Plans 55-Inch LCD HDTV With Embedded SlingPlayer
Consumer Electronics Daily reports that JVC is planning to release a new Internet connected 55-Inch LCD HDTV with SlingPlayer built in this fall, according to comments made by JVC parent Amtran Video...
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