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I also find this morsel from the Stiffel Nicholas guy interesting " We understand that the trend toward upholding examiner rejections has increased, so that the current overall rate of reversal is only around 20%. This includes reversals both of the initial decision to deny a patent as well...

Scott, TIVO has to keep going with it as it is their only hope for survival as a company. If they don't have enforceable patents (And the associated licensing deals) then they are done. In their history they have never had an operating profit, even when they had a much larger subscriber base...

Judge Folsom can't really do anything until the Appeals court also lifts their stay which they have not yet done.

If you were to get a 622/722 (PIP capable in single output mode)you would have pip for one TV and it would be included in the price of the package. If you want to use both the HD output to one TV and the independent SD output to another TV you lose the PIP ability until you push the button on...

Still being supplied guide data by some arm of D&M holdings (The company that bought Replay when Sonic Blue became bankrupt). Obviously no software updates though. I would assume the same would happen should TIVO become bankrupt.

And this is fact or just accepted assumption because the prototype ended up "missing"?

Even though your analogy doesn't really work (Bundy underwent three different trials in Utah, Colorado and Florida) I understand your point. It is pretty difficult to compare the structures and procedures of a criminal murder trial to a civil patent infringement lawsuit. I understand what you...

Believe me, I don't think TIVO's chance against either AT&T or Verizon are very good. First both companies got to see the mistakes the Echostar lawyers made (And there seemed to be a few important ones). Second, while not the only claim against either company, the fact TIVO is now defending...

Funny thing there as Verizon is being sued for infringement by TIVO. Verizon has been big fans of Charlie's fighting with TIVO as it lets them see the mistakes Charlies lawyers have made so they know what to do differently.

I think it will be very difficult for TIVO to convince Judge Folsom that the VIPs are only colorfully different from the 522/625 unless they use the exact same code.

Not arguing the hardware/software thing. Others seem to think that TIVO can get to the VIPs through the colorful difference clause in the contempt phase because it appears the software is the same. I am saying that it is very unlikely that TIVO can get to the VIPs through the contempt phase...

Do you really think Folsom is going to allow TIVO to get at the VIP software trough the contempt process rather than a new trial? Especially after the very pointed message Rader had for Folsom in his dissenting opinion?

Some general info. The 8 named models of DVR this effects: 501, 508, 510, 522, 625, 721, 921, 942 These are the DVR's this is about (And only these DVRs as of now) As far as the VIP series, while TIVO will likely try to go after these models through the contempt route it is most likely (not...

I don't think it is necessarily a FF problem they are claiming. It is that for them FF is their default browser and has their account info cookies saved thus they get the active subscriber pages which do not have the new sub pricing info on them (I guess they don't want the active subs to...

It looks like Dish is starting down the path of forcing everyone to a pure arc solution. Hopefully they will follow this letter up with some sort of plan to minimize the pain involved, especially for the early adopters (mostly the 61.5/110/119 crowd). And if we're lucky maybe even make it a...

I recently switched to Dish and see the Spade/Farley and even more frequently Carvey/Bassinger commercials quite often.

Not sure what you don't get. DirecTV doesn't need to add more than one new satellite for more HD. Their system is currently set up so to provide all HD from the 99 and 103 slots (Some old MPEG2 channels which will be going away soon are still on the 110 sat)

Yes, I think Dish will have better net add numbers than they have had in several quarters and Direct will have significantly less adds than they have had in quite some time.

I have no inside info and am just going on my own observations of things I have personally experienced and what I have read in various posts. I believe there will be some surprising info in the area of subscriber acquisitions when both Dish and Direct announce their quarterly earnings next month.

Really? 20,000 people if actually stratified across the population would be more than a representative sample. Not saying that is necessarily the case here but you don't need 20,000 for a representative sample of 18 million. If you want a confidence level of 99% with a 3 percent confidence...

Reading the experiences of several people in the last few days as opposed to the stories of the last few months make me very interested in the 3rd quarter results for DirecTV. I have a suspicion the numbers for DirecTV will not be near as pretty as they have been the last several quarters. I...

They will have the capacity to offer up to 200 HD channels after they are able to successfully launch and deploy the D12 satellite in Dec/Jan. That capacity will be avaliable sometime in early 2010. They won't be adding another 200 HD channels.

Scott are they doing it the same as several other providers and swapping ESPNU with ESPN Classic package wise?

Some other providers are charging a one time fee ($50 or so ) for the whole season. As stated above DirecTV does not carry this particular channel as they have their own Red Zone channel as a part of the Superfan add on to NFL Sunday Ticket.

No they don't they can go into any area that they can negotiate a franchise agreement and they said in the past that it would likely happen once they have finished rolling out in their home areas. Given their current rollout patterns do you honestly think they won't go into say Chicago and its...