TiVo will be earning a nice chunk of change after settling patent disputes with Google's Motorola Mobility division, Cisco and Time Warner Cable.
Source & More: hollywoodreporter.com
Source & More: hollywoodreporter.com
I was over at the Tivo Community forums and people over there are stunned that Tivo settled so low. I guess legal experts expected a $1 billion settlement.
Still, not much of a business plan.
Once they won the first lawsuit (against Dish), the rest were going to be easy.
I thought that Time Warner and possibly Motorola had agreements with TiVo already though ?
What I meant were "private" agreements. The Comcast one is very different - TiVo designed the entire interface (and boxes ?) for them. Supposedly Time Warner or possibly Pioneer, who developed the Passport software used on TW boxes years ago, had licensing agreements either providing them the software or at least a "we won't sue you" license.