[02:51 UTC]
[Sun, 19 May 2024]
|
Stories and Headlines
|
| |
TiVO patent to threat PVR market?
Filed on the 15th of May this year was TiVo's Patent number US6233389. And
what was it for ? Multimedia time warping system. A brief break down of what
the patent covers is the recording of a selected television broadcast while
the view is watching something else. This covers NTSC/PAL/DSS/DBS/ATSC
broadcasts. Oddly it doesnt mention SECAM or any of the other types, but
does state "not limited to". It then states recording of first stream to
MPEG, providing a switch to split the MPEG stream. It goes on to state about
storing it on a "storage device" and about outputing the MPEG to tv.
Now, this is a rather broad patent TiVo have applied for.
What about PVR's ? They basically do the same thing as a TiVo and with many
new ones appearing on the market it looks like TiVo might be in for a bit of
a fight. The problem for everyone else is pretty straight forward,
technically they are not allowed to build these things.
TiVo is reported to be threating Microsoft's WebTV rebadge, UltimateTV and
perhaps even Microsofts Xbox. Time will tell if TiVo can take on the Big
Boys and win.
Patent details:
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US06233389__
Author:Jaded [Source: PRESS]
Posted on Friday 25 May 2001
BACK TO PAST HEADLINES
| | |
|
| |
|
[ Forum Stats ]
8 forums
368 topics
1910 posts
2103 registered users
[ Usenet stats ]
361778 posts
18564 topics
1 guest
1 member
reading forum right now..
Register Now!
|
|
|
