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SonicBlue (Replay/Rio) Bought By D&M

Posted by michael on from the play-it-again-sam dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Here's the announcement that many have been waiting for all week. Yesterday, the ReplayTV and Rio product lines of now-defunct SonicBlue were auctioned off in a bankruptcy court. Despite earlier negotiations failing to result in a deal, the Japanese holding company D&M, makers of high-end Denon and Marantz stereo gear, bought the product lines for $36.2 million. The big question is what about all of the "lifetime subscriptions" that people bought? No answers as of yet, but we can all be hopeful."

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  1. (offtopic) Broken Rio 500... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My Rio 500 is suffering from the well-known 'checker board screen' problem... but the software fix they supply doesn't work.

    Does anyone know anything else I can try...?

  2. Re:Too bad by ozzee · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wait a minute ... can you say ... Tivo.

    I think this is an example to cite where a company based on Linux products (Tivo) out-lasted a company with Microsoft based products. I'm not saying that Linux was the only reason, but the way I figure it, it probably wasn't Mike Ramsay either !

    Sonic Blue, RIP. Long live Tivo.

  3. You forgot something by RLiegh · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you'd have included the words eff and pee in your post somewhere, you'd have gotten the +1 bonus.

    1. Re:You forgot something by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Have you considered making grub a foe? Then you'd get a green/brown icon(IIRC).

  4. May 1st is Post as Anonymous Coward Day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    To protest the stupidity of the Slashdot moderation system, on May the 1st, we will be asking everyone to post only as Anonymous Cowards.

    Hopefully through this action some awareness can be raised that the current system is flawed due to the Overrated/Underrated options and their immunity from meta moderation.

    1. Re:May 1st is Post as Anonymous Coward Day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      To protest the stupidity of the Slashdot moderation system, on May the 1st, we will be asking everyone to post only as Anonymous Cowards.

      Hopefully through this action some awareness can be raised that the current system is flawed due to the Overrated/Underrated options and their immunity from meta moderation.

      Ah, the Great Slashdot Blackout, Part Deux

      And, we who were there remember how well the FIRST ONE went. *snicker*
    2. Re:May 1st is Post as Anonymous Coward Day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Hopefully through this action some awareness can be raised that the current system is flawed due to the Overrated/Underrated options and their immunity from meta moderation.

      Well thats nice. Shame you're wrong, and your protest is worthless. The bug was fixed, Under/Overrated moderations have shown up in M2 for at least the past year. It is not a loophole in M2.

  5. Re:Georges W. Bush, our great Fuhrer, dead ! by borgdows · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. You can mod us down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but you can never censor us, you fascist fucks.

  7. Good news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the last three months, Microsoft earned $2,790,000,000 in profits!