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

[Steven Adeff]

On 4/5/06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> 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 ??

I believe the whole European Union software patent thing proves the EU
would, but the EU is really a uSA Jr. (with a side of Fries), so I
guess thats to be expected.

--
Steve