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Oh, so the validity of Tivo's patents, which is what Echostar's appeal to the 2005 ruling was based on, is "a procedural error made by the judge"? Interesting.

No good defense will drop all of its cards on the table in one shot. A good defense will play only enough cards to win so that, if there is an appeal later, it still has cards up its sleeve.

If it were that obvious the judge would likely have ruled. Obviously it's not that obvious.

It doesn't matter if Dish has a clear cut case or not - the burden of proof is on the Tivo, all Dish has to do is refute any "evidence" Tivo may come up with. It doesn't work both ways unless Dish is counter-suing Tivo...

No it didn't. It taught us that corporate overlords are hard to beat. Betamax vs VHS may have been decided by the consumers, however, HD-DVD vs BluRay was decided by the movie studios.

The fact that you could buy or rent them in 1977 and 1990 does not make them a viable solution for home video recording. It just means they were available, which I did not argue. Betamax in 1990 was far from a viable solution. We are talking about home video recording - it is not "viable" to...

It would if that were the case, but something tells me they aren't.

That's been there for quite some time now, and has been quoted several times in this thread already.

Sony lost the moment they ignored what consumers wanted. This was evident long before they even started manufacturing VHS recorders in 1988 when JVC had a 70% market share with VHS by 1980. Consumers wanted longer recording time (VHS=2 hours, Betamax=1 hour) and greater compatibility. Ask any...

Yes, it does say something. It says that while there are still people in existence who are stupid enough to continue to invest in dead technology, corporate America will continue to take advantage of them. The only 2 studios left releasing on HD-DVD are Paramount and Universal. Toshiba...

He's also forgetting to subtract the commercial time on the added channels, which is 4.8 hours per day per channel. I'm not saying the VOOM channels had no commercials, but they certainly had nowhere near 4.8 hours per day per channel. Edit: And the commercials that did appear on VOOM channels...

HD-DVD died in the format war. If you really believe you should invest in dead technology, I know somebody with a huge stock of 8-tracks that they'd be willing to part with.

What you are referring to is typical bait-and-switch.