[mythtv-users] "Odometer" Threads

[Francesco Peeters]

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 09:06 -0800, Drew wrote:
> > Whoever granted that patent should be re-educated, as it is dated 1998
> > and such things were being done long before that. Clearly "prior art"
> > was totally ignored. Also the "obvious application of current
> > technology" idea should apply as well.
> 
> I'm no legal expert but it seems to me that there's a massive hole in
> the patent that any 'modern' PVR software could waltz right through.
> The patent specifies that the data moves through the system as an
> 'MPEG stream' BUT unlike the 'Input Module' there is no clause that
> broadens the choice of formats.
> 
> Couldn't someone just write a PVR system that uses, for example, xvid
> or h.264 and bypass the whole patent?
Aren't those MPEG enabled formats as well?... (at least Xvid?)

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