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  • Top court stays out of DVR patent fight (AP) - AP - The Supreme Court refused Monday to disturb a $74 million judgment against Dish Network Corp. for violating a patent held by TiVo Inc. involving digital video recorders.
  • TiVo Wins Dish Suit As Supreme Court Refuses Case (PC Magazine) - PC Magazine - TiVo scored a victory Monday when the Supreme Court refused to intervene in a $74 million DVR patent case against Dish Networks.
  • Congressmen finally allowed on YouTube (CNET) - CNET - Members of Congress can finally use Web sites like YouTube, after committees in both the House and Senate adopted new rules allowing members to post content outside of the .gov domain, as long as it is for official purposes.
  • Touring Warhol show heavy in film and video (AP) -

    Patrons look at the displays of 'Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms' exhibit at Wexner Center for the Arts Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008 in Columbus, Ohio. Warhol's movies and video share the stage with his more familiar Campbell's soup-can paintings and colorful celebrity prints in the exhibition running through Feb. 15 at the Wexner, on the grounds of Ohio State University.  (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP - Watch Andy Warhol's films and videos and it's easy to imagine the late pop artist feeling right at home in the current age of reality TV and Web video.


  • National Ratings in Prime-Time: Week of September 22, 2008 (Mediaweek.com) - Mediaweek.com - Led by five hours of Dancing With the Stars, and the top-rated season-premieres of Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives, ABC won this first week of the 2008-09 season, finishing first in households, total viewers and the three key demos -- adults 18-49, adults 25-54 and adults 18-34 (tied with NBC). Compared to premiere week in 2007 (and keeping in mind that DVR penetration has increased from 20 to 28 percent), ABC was close to year-ago levels. ...
  • Cell-Based PC Video Cards Planned (PC Magazine) - PC Magazine - Toshiba, whose Cell-based SpursEngine chip has already been used by Toshiba in its laptops, now plans to sell the chips to two video card suppliers for sale later this year.
  • Full encryption stops Amazon Web video leak: Adobe (Reuters) -

    A screenshot of Amazon's video on demand website, taken on September 30 2008. (amazon.com/Reuters)Reuters - Amazon.com has fixed a glitch in its video streaming service by adopting Adobe Systems Inc's encryption on all television shows and movies found on its site, software maker Adobe said on Monday.


  • TiVo TV recording now available on a PC (AFP) -

    A man looks at a Tivo display. US digital video recording pioneer TiVo Inc. and Germany's Nero AG unveiled a product on Monday that allows the popular TiVo capturing of television shows on a personal computer.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AFP - US digital video recording pioneer TiVo Inc. and Germany's Nero AG unveiled a product on Monday that allows the popular TiVo capturing of television shows on a personal computer.


  • TiVo Experience Coming To PCs (NewsFactor) - NewsFactor - TiVo and software maker Nero are partnering in the launch of a new platform that will bring TiVo's popular digital video recorder (DVR) experience to PCs. The platform comes with a one-year subscription to the TiVo service, which automatically finds and digitally records a user's favorite TV shows.
  • New software turns PC into TiVo TV recorder (AP) - AP - TiVo Inc. and Nero AG of Germany were set to announce Monday that they will be launching a package that turns a Windows PC into a TV recorder, just like a TiVo set-top box.
  • DISH tumbles after AT&T picks DirecTV (Reuters) - Reuters - Shares in DISH Network Corp fell more than 14 percent on Monday after phone company AT&T Inc said it would end a marketing agreement with the satellite company next year in favor of a pact with DISH's rival DIRECTV Group.
  • Nero Debuts TiVo for PCs, New Nero 9 Suite (PC Magazine) - PC Magazine - On Monday, well-known media-burning software maker Nero AG launched three new products: Nero LiquidTV|TiVo PC, Move it, and the latest Nero 9 media suite. The most innovative of the three is LiquidTV|TiVo PC, which brings TiVo capability to the PC without the need for a set-top box.
  • AT&T drops Dish for DirecTV (CNET) - CNET - AT&T is switching its satellite TV provider.
  • Hole in Adobe software allows free movie downloads (Reuters) -

    A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden, Colorado July 23, 2008. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)Reuters - A security hole in Adobe Systems Inc software, used to distribute movies and TV shows over the Internet, is giving users free access to record and copy from Amazon.com Inc's video streaming service.


  • Stars tune-in to Web video, advertisers still shy (Reuters) - Reuters - The fall television season kicked off this past week, but viewers looking for their favorite actors returning to airwaves may not find them on TV as new Web-based shows increasingly draw stars online.