[mythtv-users] tivo patents cover mythtv?

Phil Wild philwild at gmail.com
Mon Mar 8 02:00:49 UTC 2010


On 8 March 2010 06:52, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 07 March 2010 03:49:07 pm Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>> On 7 March 2010 03:24, robert Larson <dewmanstl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > IMHO:
>> >
>> > I highly doubt it. I don't think the mythv developers ripped off code
>> > from Tivo. They have better things to do.....
>>
>> That's irrelevant when it comes to a patent ... You may or may not
>> have copied the code; yet have infringed the patent.
>>
>> The patent was lodged in 1998..
>>
>> I have a double deck VCR letting me do just what Tivo claimed to have
>> invented: can record while watching another program..
>>
>> That device alone would be sufficient to make any appeal to the
>> verdict successful as it is anterior to the "invention" date.
>>
>> Stupid patents as usual...
>
> Yeah, we had a setup that could do that back in the late 80s or early 90s at
> ABC, using a computer no less. Of course that 486 system could barely cope
> with postage-stamp sized videos, but it did do what TiVo claims a patent on.
>
> This was just a lab project, nothing official, so it might be hard to prove
> today.
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This just brought back a memory....

I used to work for SGI and I seem to remember SGI installed a computer
system in the mid nineties into Adelaide, South Australia (from
memory) that would take the Foxtel satellite feed and timeshift it by
1.5-2 hours using hard drives as a buffer so that it could be played
at the correct time for SA and WA.


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