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Tivo wins appeal versus Echostar on patent infringing

Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:07 pm
by larrydag
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2360945,00.asp

What is this going to mean for MythTV? Apparently the patent that was infriged was "time warping" which basically any DVR does. I kind of make this analogous to having a patent on the rewind button functionality on a CD/DVD player. Not sure what to make of it.

Re: Tivo wins appeal versus Echostar on patent infringing

Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:17 pm
by Patrick
larrydag wrote:What is this going to mean for MythTV?
Absolutely nothing. MythTV is open source community project. Not a commercial entity. The cable companies and commercial media applications (SageTV, Windows Media Center) are the ones who'll get impacted.