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Technology Stocks : Tivo (TIVO) Interactive TV
TIVO 6.0900.0%Jun 1 5:00 PM EST
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To: Road Walker who wrote (1844)3/31/2006 2:20:00 PM
From: Gamma Positive  Read Replies (2) of 2093
 
Thanks John.

From reading the 2 sentence description, the Goldwasser Patent sounds like the one that is the basis for all DVR's. If so, perhaps it's just lack of funds that prevents them from going after every DVR-maker. I wonder how they gained exclusive rights to the license since it apparently doesn't seem to be theirs in the first place.

For the "Automatic Playback Overshoot Correction System," the cool interaction design feature where it "corrects" your overshoot on rewind+stop on the remote control. More evidence of how patentable good interaction design is.

These "feature" varies in usefulness since everyone has different reflexes. I hated it at first, but eventually got used to it. (With hidden codes you can turn it off or adjust the setting though.)

For aspects of the "trickplay" bar, the green status bar that shows where you are in the video stream when you use the remote control. Another UI innovation.

This is really useful and, for the good of the world <g>, Tivo should give free license of this to DVD-makers. I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to hit a button on my DVD players and want to quickly and graphically see how far I am into a movie.
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