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The long-running patent lawsuit in which TiVo sued Dish Network and its former division, EchoStar, has been settled with the defendants agreeing to pay US$500 million to Tivo. The case was originally brought against the EchoStar subsidiary, which split from Dish Network in 2008. The dispute has been in the courts since 2004, …

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  1. Peter 26
    Unhappy

    Sad Patent

    I just read the patent. It makes me extremely sad to know that you can patent something so obvious. I mean how else would you do it.

    http://www.taletyano.com/MftM/TivoTimeWarp.htm

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Headmaster

      How else indeed?

      Well you could use a codec other than MPEG and you could use a software encoder/decoder instead of a hardware one. Those were tow off the top of my head...

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