[opendtv] Ramsay: TiVo Shared Technology With Dish
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:42:01 -0500
Ramsay: TiVo Shared Technology With Dish
- Mar 29, 2006 08:43 PM (AP Online)
By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer
MARSHALL, Texas (AP) -- TiVo Inc. shared details of its technology
with Dish Network, which later used it in its own TiVo-like boxes
that can pause and rewind live television programs, a TiVo co-founder
said Wednesday.
Former Chief Executive Michael Ramsay made the comment during
testimony on the first day of TiVo's patent-infringement lawsuit
against EchoStar Communications Corp., the parent of Dish Network.
Lawyers for EchoStar, however, produced internal TiVo documents that
appeared to credit EchoStar for developing its own technology.
TiVo has not said how much it is seeking in damages, but an opposing
lawyer said the company would ask the jury in federal district court
here to award it more than $100 million.
TiVo spent years pursuing a deal in which Dish Network would pay it
for using its set-top boxes, similar to an agreement that TiVo has
with DirecTV, the other big satellite broadcaster. But Ramsay claimed
the negotiations were "mostly one way" and that Dish Network began
selling its own boxes using TiVo technology.
Ramsay was the first witness in a case expected to last two weeks.
Analysts say the outcome could affect TiVo stock and determine
whether it can pressure cable companies to pay licensing fees for the
digital video recorders, or DVRs, that they lease to subscribers.
In an opening statement, EchoStar attorney Harold McElhinny said the
satellite provider developed its own technology that differs from
TiVo in several ways. For example, he said, the EchoStar box doesn't
translate analog signals into digital because satellite systems are
already digital.
McElhinny said other companies were working on devices that recorded
live TV on a hard drive long before TiVo was started in 1997.
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