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Do you need a beta tester for this? This ability has been available for TiVo's for some time, so I was looking around feeling sure it should also be available for DirecTV DVRs and your post came up in the search. I will do the download you recommend to play around a bit too.

No, it is and always was purely digital. Thus demonstrating a lack of understanding of the patent. Dan and the counsel probably needed to do a little more homework back then, or knowingly chose to misunderstand the patent in order to bolster their own belief that they were OK. Unfortunately...

Please don't put words in my mouth that I did not specifically say, that I said in private and were not for public posting, and for exaggerating one small part of what I told you way beyond my main point, which was about allowing Mainer's business (or hobby) to be seen and not bypassed. And as...

The whole reason Delaware transferred it to Texas was because of Folsom's expertise. It was assigned to Ward because he was up on the round robin. He is now just shipping it over to Folsom where it always belonged. Folsom now has the case and can take up the question of whether the new DVRs...

THAT I believe! Actually it is also probably true of most CE vendor community sites.

Quite possibly. However, if the appeals court does not grant a stay, it is likely because Dish's case does not appear strong at the outset, or that the balance of factors indicate the damage to TiVo would be worse if Dish loses. This is a balancing act the appeals court probably analyzes for...

We have no idea what either side is doing from an negotiating perspective. Your estimate may be right on, or not. Both TiVo and Dish are supposedly working with a retired judge to coordinate negotiations between them. At the hearing Judge Folsom leaned on both sides to negotiate and the TiVo...

No he did not, and he is well within his rights to do so. I simply asked him to follow Mainer's request, the one you posted. Unfortunately, doing so would get the OP's post removed. Posts to sites operated by banned former members are not allowed and are removed. That makes it a bit hard to...

I don't know who is emailing you, but see my post above, it is NOT really about the bandwidth. It is simply about playing nice.

Thank you, that is exactly what I requested of you, nothing more. If you prefer to direct link, I will also not complain again. Once was enough.

No request to have satellite guys remove links was made I think I started this mess with some PMs, not an email and not an email to you. It is clear that the message has been mangled in the process. I asked posters who posted direct links to docs on Mainer's site to link to the site instead...

The way I read that order, the letter already sent, simply stating that they are planning and/or investigating a redesign is about all they owe. They certainly don't need to apprise him of every step. When they argued for a stay pending appeal last time, they left out this simple one line fact...

It is supposed to be. It is a pun on the internet meme "all your base are belong to us". Of course if you don't know the meme, you won't get the joke. Granted it is a biased site, but so is this one. Then again, so are most.

If you plan to stay with Dish and want HD then you have no choice but to stick with the Dish DVR, it is a walled garden. There are older TiVo SD DVRs still available that will work with a standard Dish receiver (not DVR) to record SD. If you switch to cable or FIOS then you can get a...

As I pointed out before, they are both in the same packet, they are ONE AND THE SAME. The distinction is meaningless. The 13 bit code in the header is the PID, it is what is used to decide which packets to parse. Think of it as the name of the stream that the packet is a part of. Instead of...

Different claims, different claim constructions. You are now pouring them all together into one. A PID filter parses, it parses packets containing audio and video data from the full transponder stream of broadcast data. It meets both items on your list.

I will explain again. A packet is a block of data that contains a header and a payload. The header is short and sits at the front or top of the packet, among other things, it includes a PID and a length that tells how long the packet is, including the payload data. A PID filter examines the...

Argh, Right, if Dish had wanted it to be necessary they had two chances to make it so. Once at trial and once on appeal. They chose not to. No, Dish said the PID filter did not analyze the packet payload, which is audio and video data. The packets themselves are analyzed. The whole packets...

When the PID filter parses it examines the headers, yes. It then uses the headers data to decide which packets to move to the buffer. It is not necessary to open the payloads in order to parse the payload from the input stream and put it in the buffer. The television data is parsed, it is...

That 4 million number is years old. It has to be substantially less now. I have no idea how much less, but I am sure many of those people have upgraded over the last two years. Still, your point is good that doing so is enormously expensive. A deal is hopefully in the works.

TiVo could bring some big things to the table with Dish as they are with Cable. Things that complement sling. If the two were to work together they could all be winners.

I sincerely hope you are right. To me it just seems that doing so would fit the pattern of past actions. First, I really do not believe it will be all DVRs, just most of the named models, and I strongly suspect there are fewer of them really out there than the big numbers of all DVRs currently...

The shutoff will have to be immediate, and the restoring of some form of limited DVR workaround will take some time to be cleared by the court, but yes I see it as a real possibility too. Dish has shown that using the subscriber base as a weapon can be made to work, at least in the medium term...

[/SIZE] Just because his opinion does not specifically mention the patent specification, you can't assume he did not take it into account. TiVo responded by pointing to the claim language and constructions. That is not a non-response. This is exactly what I believe he did. Claims must also...

Perhaps if they had, they would not be in this pickle right now. Perhaps they chose not to in order to not telegraph their redesign plans to TiVo. But interestingly I do not recall any of this mentioned in the opinion letters. This argument only came to light in the most recent hearing...