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Dish Network Subscribers Keep Their DVRs -- For Now





August 20, 2006

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Dish Network Subscribers Keep Their DVRs -- For Now

Dish Network subscribers who use the company's digital video recorder (DVR) feature can breath a little easier. A federal appeals court has blocked, at least temporarily, a lower court order that the system be shut down.

A U.S. District Court had sided with Tivo, finding that Echostar Communications, which operates Dish Network, violated Tivo's patent when it introduced the DVR devices. Echostar was ordered to shut the system down and pay Tivo nearly $90 million in damages.

But an appeals court blocked the order until Echostar's appeal can be heard. The ruling would have included the shutdown of the DVR service within 30 days.

Currently, four million Dish Network subscribers use the DVR system. If Tivo prevails and Dish subscribers lsoe their DVRs, they could flee into the arms of DirecTV or their local cable system.

The lower court's decision also requires EchoStar to pay roughly $90 million in damages to Tivo.

In another legal quagmire, an Atlanta court has ruled that Dish must stop distributing local network TV signals to subscribers in rural aras and small towns that don't have their own local stations.

The court held that Dish, owned by EchoStar Communications, was violating the federal government's "distant network signal" rule, which prohibits importing local stations into regions their signals don't normally reach.



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