That just won’t work for me. Besides, Unbox engaged in so many billing errors and lost credits early on that they completely lost me as a paying customer. I only download the occassional free thing now.

Mega:

Thanks, that makes it really easy to catch up. Looks like things progressed at about or a little behind the pace I suspected they would 3-4 months ago when I was hot on ‘where’s the dongle?’ Still leaves me with late this year for a TA – maybe – and not getting all the content I pay for for now.

And I still ain’t got much content to MRV these days. I considered writing about how I can duplicate recordings with Series2s that I have via cable box, or with one of the TiVo HDs which has no cableCARDs (analog only), blah, blah, blah… which is of course a compromise, quality and convenience drawback, etc.

BTW, in the original discussions about the TA, the concept was to provide it free. Good to see Cox announce that to be the case. That’s a reasonable deal considering the benefits cable cos. and other consumers get from “breaking” one-way cableCARD devices to use SDV.

Now remember 3 or 4 months ago I brought up that people will be arguing over the definition of “available” as regards the TA. I imagine that to be hot around now. Its not “available” until I can get it from my cable co from my standpoint; although it may be “available” now or soon from MOT or CSCO or FCC standpoint.

http://hdtivo.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/where%c2%b4s-the-gd-tuning-resolver/ 4/19/08

http://hdtivo.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/fcc-grants-blanket-waiver-to-integration-ban/

Cable companies have no particular mandate to halt analog transmission. However, they have tremendous business incentive to do so (see SDV and the effect of freeing bandwidth could have on potential services.) In addition, the FCC incentivized cable cos. to commit to going all digital by I forget what date in return for I forget exactly what waiver of something else (I´m really getting senile or just plain less interested.)

Furthermore, cable cos will have to make the effort to generate an analog signal where none will any longer exist in broadcast.

So I think many people using cable will be affected on or around the time of the DTV switch over. Stay “tuned” to your mailbox for letters from your friendly cable co.

http://www.dailyreportonline.com/Editorial/News/singleEdit.asp?individual_SQL=4%2F25%2F2008%4022920

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The copyright dispute raging between Google and Viacom over video sharing on Google-owned YouTube shows just how massive IP cases can be. Fifty lawyers from Mayer Brown are in the throes of discovery for Google. One of the lead attorneys on the case, Washington partner Richard Ben-Veniste, says the team is in the process of reviewing about 10 million documents

At the beginning of this year, Waxman and fellow Wilmer partner Edward DuMont secured a Federal Circuit victory for TiVo Inc. against EchoStar Communications Corp. The court upheld a previous verdict that EchoStar had infringed a TiVo patent, and awarded damages of $74 million.

On May 5, Waxman is set to argue another patent infringement matter for clients ArvinMeritor, Pressure Systems International and Equalaire Systems in the Federal Circuit.