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Dish Network DVR-921 HD DVR Reviewed
cblount writes "The Dish Network DVR-921 is the first home satellite receiver capable of recording and time shifting HDTV signals both from satellite and local Over-The-Air broadcasts. The first comprehensive review has been posted at DBSTalk.Com."
[quote]Nevertheless, I watch a lot of television thanks to my TiVo. TiVo lets me skip the commercials, which makes me a "thief" but lets me enjoy the entertainment I deserve. Let's compare some features.
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Deserve? What do you mean deserve? What part of the program did you pay for? Yes watchign commercials (especially the same ones over and over again) sucks.....and having something to shift forward with to skip said commercials is awesome. However, the companies that make thise programs need to get money somehow. You don't deserve anything in the current scheme,unless you watch the commercials.
That is patently false (pun intented) ... Tivo does not have a patent on Name Based Recording.
Dish does not want to implement it, because it requires effort.
Before you reply and tell me I'm wrong, go find the patent. It doesn't exist (I've looked)... if you can show a patent number, you can prove a lot of people wrong, and redeem E*'s reputation at the same time. Sadly, though, Tivo does not have a patent on Name Based Recording.
Like I said, it's the Dish PVRs are the ONLY PVR's on the market today that does not have it. The ONLY ones.
Until you can prove it, you are just speculating. No one, anywhere, has been able to find a patent for it. Why? Because there was prior art long before Tivo.
Name Based recording wouldn't hold up in a court. Many people, like you, have tried to claim the patent defense, but none of them can back it up... so don't speculate on things you can't back up. Just give the facts or conjecture you can back up with facts.