Quote Originally Posted by Thomas22 View Post
Nope. Not a single mention of a deal between Motorola and TiVo.
This is an article describing the Motorola-Comcast-Tivo indicating that Comcast and Tivo have a deal to do software for Comcast's Motorola boxes.

Whether or not Motorola had any say in this is open to speculation. My guess is that Comcast as the marketer of the Motorola Box had permission to do this, even if Tivo did not. And that they had the authority to transfer that right to Tivo. The effect would be the same: Tivo could legally develop software for the Motorola boxes developed for Comcast.

IN the real world, people hire developers for all kinds of things. I am sure tivo would not have done this if it did not think it had legal standing to do it. And I have not heard Motorola squawk about it.

When I write things for other companies, they have the right to change it, typically. And they could hire someone else to change it. It's in most contracts.

Could Tivo do that for other cable companies? Don't know.


The Comcast-Motorola-TiVo @ CES