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The Peacock on a DISH
- By sandv blog
- Posted May 23, 2008
You know you do it. I do it too. We all do it. We all use our DVRs to skip commercials. For many users, that's the main reason they purchased a DVR in the first place. Unfortunately, this trend is effecting the advertiser's bottom line. They pay for ads, but no one is watching.

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Dishing Out Slingbox DVR
- By sandv blog
- Posted May 20, 2008
Dish Network keeps dishing out the hits. They just revealed their latest DVR at a retailer conference, complete with a full array of Slingbox features. The 722s (the "s" identifies this unit as the Slingbox version of the previously released 722) is an HD DVR complete with a new user interface and a Yahoo-esque browser.

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Dishing on DISH Network
- By sandv blog
- Posted May 5, 2008
Competition is a good thing, right? Competition fueled the growth of cable and satellite services as each one tries to outdo the other. Unfortunately, at least one lucrative market is a virtual monopoly, and one competitor has been sitting back, getting fat, rich, and lazy.

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DISH Network Retracts Post-Ruling Promise
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 22, 2008
DISH Network spoke way too soon. After losing its umpteenth patent appeal against TiVo earlier this month, the satellite company loudly insisted that none of its current crop of digital video recorders violated TiVo's patents, and that all DISH DVRs in consumers' homes would stay functional.

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Dish Won't Give Up TiVo Fight
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 14, 2008
Dish Network and TiVo have been battling in court since 2004 over Dish's alleged infringement of TiVo's recording-while-watching patent, but even though TiVo keeps winning, Dish won't give up. The latest development: a Federal Circuit court ruled against Dish's appeal to get another hearing at the Supreme Court, so Dish plans to appeal that ruling as well.

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Dish Wins Big in Spectrum Auction
- By sandv blog
- Posted March 21, 2008
When the Federal Communications Commission auctioned off about $19 billion worth of wireless spectrum last week, the most voracious bidders were wireless companies like Verizon and AT&T who plan to use the airwaves for expansions of phone and data services.

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