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$500 million paid to TiVo by Dish Network and EchoStar to settle lawsuit

Published on: 12th May, 2011

Dish Network and EchoStar, its parent company, reached a settlement deal with TiVo in the beginning of this month. After losing the last appeal, Dish and EchoStar agreed to pay TiVo $500 million to put an end to all lawsuits and trade bans on DVRs. A sum of $300 million will be paid up front [...]

Apple, Adobe, Hewlett Packard and other companies sued by Ganas

Published on: 27th August, 2010

Adobe, Apple, Hewlett Packard, Tivo and Xerox are among the 23 companies sued by Allen, Texas business, Ganas, in a patent infringement lawsuit. There are four patents at stake but 7,136,913 is the key one. It describes a system used for communication over the Internet through a firewall that utilizes a single protocol of communication. [...]

TiVo – patent for displaying closed caption information to DVR users

Published on: 18th February, 2010

The DVR maker and service provider has submitted a patent to USPTO for closed captioning of information to DVR users. The new technique is meant to use existing closed caption as well as Enhanced Television signalling (ETV) in order to deliver the service. TiVo would also give customers software able to automatically remove commercials from [...]

TiVo and Virgin Media are now partners for the UK

Published on: 30th November, 2009

On November 25, 2009, the DVR maker TiVo and Virgin Media, the UK-based cable provider, announced the start of their partnership. This means that TiVo will be developing the next-generation TV platform from Virgin. TiVo’s expertise will be used for the creation of a custom interface for the new Virgin HD boxes. As a result, [...]