TV.com in deal with TiVo

TV.com, the streaming video site is in a deal with TiVo. The deal lets TiVo subscribers find, schedule and record shows from TV.com on their TiVo DVR. On the TV.com site subscribers will click “Record to TiVo” and the request will be sent to their TiVo DVR.

This is a unique deal since the consumer both TV.com and TiVo serve are for time-shift TV programming. In April, TV.com hit an all time viewing high.
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TiVo News June

TiVo is to present at Credit Suisse Global Media and Communications Convergence Conference on June 10th. Representing TiVo will be Vice President of Corporate Development Naveen Chopra. A webcast of this event will be available on the TiVo website at http://investor.tivo.com. Go to the events calendar tab to see the presentation.

Meanwhile, TiVo may be a part of a slugfest. TVNZ owns a third of Hybrid Television. TiVO’s time shifting technology is likely to have a big impact on television viewing habits. In the United States, TV viewing has gone up as a result of TiVo. 37 percent of homes have DVR’s in the U.S.
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TiVo $103mn Richer Dish $103mn Poorer

One mans loss is another mans gain they say. Guess it goes much to same for companies too. Tivo, reeling under a loss of subscribers finds good fortune at its door with the court ordering Echostar communications to pay TiVo $103 mn in a long standing patent dispute. In addition Echostar has been ordered to disable infringing features which are present in the DVR’s of its subscribers.In addition Echostar has also been found in contempt of court. They earned this because they violated a permanent injunction – they reprogrammed millions of DVR’s with a new workaround. Due to this contempt substantial harm has been caused to TiVo according to Folsom. Millions of customers were acquired by Echostar who are now potentially out of TiVo’s reach according to the U.S. District Judge.Dish is based in Englewood, Colo. They said an appeal would be made against the contempt ruling and a motion would be filed to stay an order requiring the disabling of the disputed DVR features. According to the company, the engineers of Echostar spent about a year designing around TiVo’s patent and also removing the features that TiVo says infringed at the Trial.Due to this judgement, TiVo rose 36 percent in after hours trading and Dish fell 6.9 percent.