The ruling is in: Within 30 days, all infringing Dish DVR functionality must be disabled and TiVo‘s initial award comes to about ninety million big ones. The market should be interesting tomorrow AM and EchoStar is sure to appeal. If you’re just tuning in, you can catch up here — otherwise check out the official court ruling below.
UPDATE 1: TiVo and EchoStar respond with dueling press releases.
UPDATE 2: EchoStar is granted a stay, cause for more press releases
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Ordinarily I'd say that right about now TiVo's and Echostars lawyers are working out a deal that would eventually have Dish start selling actual TiVos (which would be great for me since I'm a Dish customer)
But Charlie Eggen(sp) is kinda crazy so I'm not betting on anything.
Well this sucks. What about those of us who USE the DVR functionality from Dish? Time to start hacking my reciever to disable updates...
Maybe it will be appealed but there will likely be a settlement. Echostar won't let their customers go dark.