Reply #11: SWEET JEEBUS PEOPLE! All is not a conspiracy... [View All]

[Rosco T.]

How about learning what it's all about before you start pointing fingers?

FACT: many, many years ago, DISH had a medium fair DVR platform (called a DISHPLAYER, I had one). DirectTv had the SAME platform (with a few changes) called UlitmateTV. The software for BOTH of them was done by Microsoft. Microsoft decided to stop supporting the Dishplayer/UltimateTV system and BOTH companies had to go another direction.

FACT: DirecTV went with TiVo. They paid them for it, TiVo did the software and it's still in use today (along with the PVR software that came from SKYTV in the UK).

FACT: DISH got a full 'evaluation' kit from TiVo.. Hardware, software, source code (the Tivo is a LINUX box), documentation.. the full monty... after absorbing it all, DISH said... 'never mind, we're going to make our own'.

FACT: what DISH eventually did was effectively CLONE the TiVo software... abiet it BADLY. Ask anyone about their early days with the DISHPVR's and you'll understand why. But they STILL COPIED MUCH OF THE CORE TIVO FUNCTIONALITY.

FACT: nastily little thing called a PATENT. about 10 of them in this case, where it was obvious that DISH effectively STOLE the ideas from TiVo.

FACT: after going thru the courts (this has been going on for years) TiVo won the case, won damages in the case. How would YOU like it if you had a patented idea and someone stole it?

FACT: anyone that knows anything about how business works, knows that this 'injunction to turn off the DVRs' is actually "DISH, you either LEGALLY LICENSE what you stole or TURN OFF THE DVRs"

oh.. and the mantra "DISH IS THE BLUE COMPANY" here's the numbers from BuyBlue.org

$156,171 to Democrats
$146,479 to Republicans
$0 to Others
$302,650 in Total Contributions

they're blue by $9692 or %3.2 or a dead heat.

TiVo is a non-political company, giving nothing to either side (per: BuyBlue.Org).

FOR SHITS SAKE, this is not a 'conspiracy to keep you from recording Free Speech TV or anything else!

Get a Grip people, worry about something IMPORTANT