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After a pretty quick trial, TiVo was awarded almost $74 million in its patent suit against EchoStar, the parent company of Dish Network. Now, TiVo may seek an injunction to keep EchoStar from selling DVRs. Pretty big news here in the DVR world. More details here:
LA Times Article

Announced this morning, DirecTV has completed an agreement with TiVo to continue to provide service to combo DirecTV/TiVo DVRs for at least three years beyond the current agreement’s end date at the end of 2007. This means that DirecTV will continue to support (although not necessarily to sell) TiVo DVRs until 2010.
Yahoo/Reuters Article
This isn’t too [...]

OK folks, this is really it. After April 15, 2006, TiVo won’t sell lifetime subscriptions for their standalone DVRs. (The only exception is the Humax DVD combo TiVo DVRs - those will still be able to get lifetime.)

It’s truly a great deal - TiVo even claims that the reason they are discontinuing it is that [...]

In my post of just minutes ago, I referenced TiVo Desktop for Macintosh (inasmuch as it isn’t compatible with Intel-based Macs). Well, I went back to get a screenshot of the page, and, amazingly, there’s no Mac version there at all now.
Does this mean a Universal Binary is forthcoming? We can only hope it means [...]

This issue deserves a little note since it has an unexpected impact that I haven’t seen reported elsewhere, and that I’ve personally experienced: 7.2.2 is incompatible with certain wired ethernet adapters, and therefore, if you have one, you won’t get 7.2.2.
Note on TiVo’s support site
But there’s a glitch. If you got 7.2.2 before TiVo was [...]