[mythtv-users] "Odometer" Threads
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Thu Feb 7 16:34:37 UTC 2008
Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 02/07/2008 11:18 AM, David George wrote:
>> On 02/07/2008 11:14 AM, Brian Wood wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know why TiVo decided to go after DISH. DirectTV also offers
>>> DVRs, and they are bigger than DISH (16 million vs. 13 million subs).
>> Probably because at the time the DirecTV DVRs were TiVo's. Made by
>> various manufacturers (Sony, Philips, Hughes, ...).
>
> And TiVo knew that DirecTV had developed their own DVR and was
> considering dropping their contract with TiVo. As long as the contract
> with TiVo was in place, threatening/suing them was too direct an
> approach of attempting to convince to renew the contract, so by putting
> pressure on "another" satellite provider, their message was loud and
> clear, but DirecTV wasn't offended/angered enough to fight TiVo.
>
> Just my opinion...
Sure sounds reasonable. I'd forgotten DirectTV's DVRs were TiVos.
beww
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