A failed DirecTV acquisition of TiVo?

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DirecTV Helps TiVo

DirecTV Helps TiVo 12/11/2003 04:57 PM
DirecTV helps TiVo... but not TiVo users. While CNET reports that TiVo's partnership with DirecTV has driven subs up to the 1 million mark, my poor DirecTiVo satellite/DVR combo is orphaned sans the Home Media Option and any of the cool new software features (e.g. folders)--and, indeed, any software updates to speak of--appearing on the standalone Tivo boxes. The Web-based recording and ability to stream audio from my MP3 store to my hifi via TiVo were the very reasons I upgraded to a Series 2 TiVo. Sure is nice to see TiVo doing so well though; mind you, I do mean that--this particular beef is with DirecTV.

DirecTV Deletes TiVo

DirecTV Deletes TiVo 06/09/2004 10:58 AM
DirecTV sells its 4% stake in TiVo and resigns its board seat.

DirecTV Machine Will Compete With TiVo

DirecTV Machine Will Compete With TiVo 01/07/2005 12:15 AM
New York Times Jan 7 2005 4:12AM GMT

DirecTV sells its TiVo stake

DirecTV sells its TiVo stake 06/08/2004 06:27 PM

DirecTV Says Sold Stake in TiVo

DirecTV Says Sold Stake in TiVo 06/09/2004 04:12 AM
Boston Globe Jun 9 2004 8:34AM GMT

The Rocky TiVo-DirecTV Relationship

The Rocky TiVo-DirecTV Relationship 04/04/2005 04:17 PM

TiVo, DirecTV extend ad pact

TiVo, DirecTV extend ad pact 04/05/2005 02:02 PM
CNN Money Apr 5 2005 5:22PM GMT

DirecTV sells its equity stake in TiVo

DirecTV sells its equity stake in TiVo 06/08/2004 06:58 PM
CNET Jun 8 2004 10:08PM GMT

DirecTV exec quits TiVo board

DirecTV exec quits TiVo board 06/04/2004 01:48 PM

TiVo, DirecTV Sign Advertising Deal

TiVo, DirecTV Sign Advertising Deal 04/05/2005 02:58 PM
In a possible sign that relations between satellite television provider DirecTV and DVR-maker TiVo may be improving, details of a new advertising agreement between the two companies were made public Tuesday. The deal allows for both companies to leverage TiVo's "advanced advertising capabilities" on DirecTV TiVo units.

DirecTV launches non-TiVo digital
recorder

DirecTV launches non-TiVo digital
recorder 01/07/2005 02:02 AM
ZDNet Jan 7 2005 5:48AM GMT

Glitch hits DirecTV TiVo boxes

Glitch hits DirecTV TiVo boxes 07/28/2004 06:20 PM
A software download apparently hits "pause" on some some digital video recorders.

DirecTV helps TiVo to reach million mark

DirecTV helps TiVo to reach million mark 11/04/2003 02:31 PM
The digital video recorder company says it has signed up 1 million subscribers, propelled by its partnership with satellite service provider DirecTV.

Tivo stock plunges as DirecTV sells
shares

Tivo stock plunges as DirecTV sells
shares 06/08/2004 08:36 PM
SiliconValley.com Jun 9 2004 0:06AM GMT

DirecTV Launches Non-TiVo Digital
Recorder (Reuters)

DirecTV Launches Non-TiVo Digital
Recorder (Reuters) 01/06/2005 10:15 PM
Reuters - DirecTV Group Inc. on Thursday debuted its first digital video recorder with technology from another News Corp. division, raising questions about the strength of its relationship with digital video recording pioneer TiVo.

Tough times for TiVo as DirecTV loses
interest

Tough times for TiVo as DirecTV loses
interest 06/09/2004 06:08 AM
While most of the humming and hawing over TiVo is mere sensationalism, in recent days the company has been struck with a 1-2 punch from its biggest partner, DirecTV.

TiVo Troubles Climb as DirecTV Ditches
Shares

TiVo Troubles Climb as DirecTV Ditches
Shares 06/08/2004 10:11 PM
Shares of TiVo dropped more than 14 percent Tuesday after DirecTV sold its entire stake in the digital video recorder pioneer, heightening concerns that the satellite TV company would end their relationship.

TiVo Tying TV To The Net Looking to tie
television to the Internet, digital
video recording makers TiVo on Jun

TiVo Tying TV To The Net Looking to tie
television to the Internet, digital
video recording makers TiVo on Jun 06/10/2004 10:28 PM
AVN Online Jun 11 2004 2:45AM GMT

Friends finale and NBC Tivo-b0rking --
TiVo Strikes Back

Friends finale and NBC Tivo-b0rking --
TiVo Strikes Back 05/07/2004 10:49 AM
Following up on yesterday's post about NBC's apparent attempts to b0rk potential TiVoers of the Friends finale, BoingBoing reader Douglas Clark says,

I am a loyal Tivo user and Tivo did send out a message alert to users about the Friends episode. It was more along the lines of "if you manually extend the time of a recording, you may miss the beginning of the friends final episode." I find that Tivo is pretty good about catching unusual start times and other wonky tricks the networks play. The previous comment about HUT and ratings was right on the money...

Link to previous BoingBoing post.

Tech maven Meg Hourihan adds, "Even weirder is that I got a message on my Tivo warning me that the finale of Friends would have abnormal times. The message warned that if I wasn't just using the automatic "start on time" and "end on time" settings (i.e. I manually set the start time as 8 PM) that I might miss some. What makes things weirder and worse is that Tivo still didn't record the whole show! I made sure my settings were what the message instructed, and happened to watch the show live. Tivo kicked in to record at 8:59 PM (which is what it listed the start time as) but stopped at 9:59! According to the time on my digital cable box, the program didn't end until 10:03 PM. So if I hadn't watched it live, I would have missed the last four minutes. Seems like a major screw-up on Tivo's part, especially after sending out that message!"

TIVO Bug Shuts Out Many Series 1 TiVo
Owners?

TIVO Bug Shuts Out Many Series 1 TiVo
Owners? 07/26/2004 05:24 PM

TiVo users not happy TiVo is spying on
them

TiVo users not happy TiVo is spying on
them 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
Well TiVo's boosting that it Janet Jacksons Garment malfunction was the single highest re-watched event has many TiVo users asking...

TiVo.com | TiVo Press Releases

TiVo.com | TiVo Press Releases 01/09/2004 10:10 PM
bang for the buck .. extension .. TivoToGo

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Intel and Tivo Team Up on Tivo-to-Go
(But How?)

Intel and Tivo Team Up on Tivo-to-Go
(But How?) 06/06/2005 12:09 AM

Reuters is running a story about Intel that is chocked full of goo info, including information that their 'Manitoba' mobile chipset has finally found a customer in mmO2 Pic (the Manitoba came out two years ago, to little fanfare, let alone actual adoption by phone manufacturers). But the big news is that Intel will be working with Tivo to provide Tivo-to-Go functionality in future laptop chipsets, like their popular Centrino.

What that is, though, is unclear. Is it just a branding initiative? Tivo-to-Go already works on laptops (that's half the point), so will it be some sort of native support that makes it easier to move the Tivo content around? We don't know—the article is very vague—but at least Tivo is getting some name dropping love from a mega-vendor (considering it was unlikely they were going to get much help from Microsoft, considering they sell a competing product to Windows XP Media Center). (Thanks, Pat!)

UPDATE 1-Intel's cell communications chip finds a customer [Reuters]

The end of DIRECTV piracy?

The end of DIRECTV piracy? 04/15/2004 09:03 AM
The sky is falling! [some links require reg] The years of hacking DIRECTV's signal and pirating its program offerings seem to be coming to an end.

DirecTV can't sue for gear possession

DirecTV can't sue for gear possession 06/15/2004 09:09 PM
Appeals court affirms that suit defendants have to use--not just own--equipment for intercepting satellite TV.

Feds OK DirecTV Takeover

Feds OK DirecTV Takeover 12/20/2003 08:42 AM
CBS News Dec 20 2003 7:22AM ET

MP3 Request: "Tivo, My Tivo"

MP3 Request: "Tivo, My Tivo" 06/08/2004 09:07 AM

Does anyone have an MP3 of the song "Tivo, My Tivo" from the off-Broadway [hit | miss] The Gayest Straight Man Alive? Because I'd really like to hear it. Also, could someone explain what "surprisingly straight" means? Is that, like, no dicks at all? Not even your own? (Thanks, Peter, for the "tip.")
Read [NYTheatre]

Update: While I'm exploiting the good humor of our readers, do any of you 1) live in Canberra, Australia, and 2) take PayPal? I need to get a few cases of VB delivered to some game developers and am having a surprisingly hard time of it.

DirecTV to sell set-top box unit to
Thomson

DirecTV to sell set-top box unit to
Thomson 05/12/2004 05:26 PM
SiliconValley.com May 12 2004 9:26PM GMT

KVH boosted by car antenna deal with
DirecTV

KVH boosted by car antenna deal with
DirecTV 01/06/2005 07:32 PM
SiliconValley.com Jan 6 2005 10:34PM GMT

DirecTV to buy Pegasus Satellite for
$875 million

DirecTV to buy Pegasus Satellite for
$875 million 08/02/2004 02:00 PM
SiliconValley.com Aug 2 2004 6:00PM GMT

Former DirecTV Bag Man Discusses
Extortion Campaign

Former DirecTV Bag Man Discusses
Extortion Campaign 04/16/2004 08:58 PM
As DirecTV continues their campaign to threate n anyone who bought a smart card reader, even if they did so for completely legitimate reasons, it looks like some more evidence is coming out against them. A former employee working in their anti-piracy division is now suing the company suggesting they forced him to do illegal and unethical things in forcing innocent people to pay up. He says he felt like "a bag man for the mob" and talks about how the anti-piracy operation "was an elaborate extortion racket," that rewarded employees based on how much settlement revenue they brought in. He points out that this encouraged them to work as hard as possible to make everyone pay up, whether or not they had done anything illegal.

BellSouth debuts DirecTV service

BellSouth debuts DirecTV service 08/03/2004 09:28 PM
The local phone giant starts selling access to the satellite TV network in a bundle with phone and broadband services.

EFF and Stanford Law School to the
rescue against DirecTV

EFF and Stanford Law School to the
rescue against DirecTV 06/15/2004 03:05 PM

Dan Gillmor

DirecTV Reins in the Legal Attack Dogs

In one of the uglier "intellectual property" abuses, DirecTV has been suing people for possession of tools it claims can be used to get TV shows without paying for them. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society have challenged the satellite TV company on this conduct, and on Monday DirecTV agreed to modify its approach, according to this press release, which says in part:

The company will no longer pursue people solely for purchasing smart card readers, writers, general-purpose programmers, and general-purpose emulators. It will maintain this policy into the forseeable future and file lawsuits only against people it suspects of actually pirating its satellite signal. DirecTV will, however, continue to investigate purchasers of devices that are often primarily designed for satellite signal interception, nicknamed “bootloaders” and “unloopers.”

DirecTV also agreed to change its pre-lawsuit demand letters to explain in detail how innocent recipients can get DirecTV to drop their cases. The company also promised that it will investigate every substantive claim of innocence it receives. If purchasers provide sufficient evidence demonstrating that they did not use their devices for signal theft, DirecTV will dismiss their cases. EFF and CIS will monitor reports of this process to confirm that innocent device purchasers are having their cases dismissed.

Perhaps DirecTV saw some writing on the wall. On Tuesday, a federal appeals court has ruled that the company can't sue solely because someone possesses such equipment.

These are the kinds of stories that make me sometimes wish I lived in America. Good job EFF and Stanford Law School.

DirecTV Again Clips Pegasus' Wings

DirecTV Again Clips Pegasus' Wings 06/02/2004 01:42 PM
TheStreet.com Jun 2 2004 5:09PM GMT

Ex-investigator's suit against DirecTV
dismissed

Ex-investigator's suit against DirecTV
dismissed 06/04/2004 05:57 AM

DirecTV Extortion Program stopped by EFF

DirecTV Extortion Program stopped by EFF 06/15/2004 11:32 AM

DIRECTV and DIRECWAY Satellite Systems

DIRECTV and DIRECWAY Satellite Systems 04/05/2005 04:08 AM
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EFF Gets DirecTV To Stop Extortion
Program

EFF Gets DirecTV To Stop Extortion
Program 06/15/2004 03:32 AM
It only took a few years of pressure, but DirecTV is backing down from their policy of extortion when it comes to anyone who has bought a smart card reader. The situation, in case you hadn't followed the case, was that DirecTV got access to the sales lists of some companies that sold smart card readers - which can be used to create cards for illegally accessing satellite TV. Of course, there are other, perfectly legitimate, reasons why someone might want a smartcard reader as well - but DirecTV didn't really care. Instead, they sent out threatening letters, demand ing $3,500 or filing a lawsuit, where you would need to prove your innocence, rather than have DirecTV show you had actually done something illegal. Last year, the EFF got involved in the case, and it appears they've convinced DirecTV to back off. They say they will "no longer sue or threaten to sue people merely for possessing smart card devices." They'll also make it easier for anyone they contact to prove their innocence prior to the case going to court. Of course, this doesn't solve the legal problems of many who have been hounded over the past few years by DirecTV.

DirecTV changes Smart Card Stance

DirecTV changes Smart Card Stance 06/15/2004 03:44 AM

DirecTV will no longer prosecute people who simply own smart card devices. This comes as major change after an significant number of people have had money extorted from them by DirecTV for simply owning Smart Card devices. They have not stated the exact criteria they will use to go after people pirating there service with the devices. [EFF]

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CEO Interview: How DirecTV Plans to Grow

CEO Interview: How DirecTV Plans to Grow 04/26/2004 10:24 AM
Fortune Apr 26 2004 2:02PM GMT

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