{"id":1469,"date":"2025-10-18T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/tivo-won-the-court-battles-but-lost-the-tv-war\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:00:00","slug":"tivo-won-the-court-battles-but-lost-the-tv-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/tivo-won-the-court-battles-but-lost-the-tv-war\/","title":{"rendered":"TiVo won the court battles, but lost the TV war"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"TiVo could have been a contender.\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/13162763\/TiVo_BOLT_OTA_Living_Room_3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tTiVo could have been a contender.\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In the 2000s, TiVo reached heights few companies ever achieve. Like Google and Xerox, its name became a verb. People had to \u00ab\u00a0TiVo\u00a0\u00bb the new episode of <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em> or game 4 of the Red Sox vs. Cardinals, not \u00ab\u00a0record\u00a0\u00bb it. While it didn&rsquo;t invent the DVR, TiVo popularized it and many of the features we would eventually take for granted, like the ability to pause or rewind live TV, and watch one program while recording another. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Those features were covered in the now infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US6233389B1\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Patent 6,233,389<\/a> &#8211; better known as the Time Warp patent. TiVo spent a good chunk of the 2000s and early 2010s defending its intellectual property through a serie \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/802254\/tivo-time-warp-patent-courtoom-battles-lost-tv-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TiVo could have been a contender. In the 2000s, TiVo reached heights few companies ever achieve. 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