[mythtv-users] TiVo's Future May Hinge on Patent Case

[Brian Wood]

On Apr 5, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:

> On 4/5/06, Wylie Swanson <wylie.swanson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20060404/tc_zd/175015
> <snip>
>
> a simple example of how patents stifle innovation.


But the whole thing is ridiculous. Video was being captured and  
stored on hard drives long before TiVo or EchoStar even existed.

Technically the old Ampex hard-disk slo-mo machine, though analog,  
would qualify, and using one for each camera at a sporting event,  
which was commonly done in the 70's, would qualify as "recording one  
channel while watching another".

The only thing TiVo or Echostar "invented" was marketing, not  
engineering.

How many countries other than our own litigation-leading USA would  
even permit such a case to get to court ??