DirecTV to offer TiVo HD service
FROM MULTICHANNEL NEWS: Also extends intellectual property licensing deal
By Todd Spangler of Multichannel News -- Video Business, 9/3/2008
SEPT. 3 | FROM MULTICHANNEL NEWS: Three years after DirecTV stopped offering TiVo digital video recorders, the satellite operator has struck a new deal with TiVo to develop a new HD DVR as a high-end option for subscribers.
Financial terms of the deal, announced Wednesday, were not disclosed. The companies said the agreement, effective until at least February 2015, included the extension of mutual intellectual property arrangements.
Under the nonexclusive pact, DirecTV and TiVo will work together to develop a broadband-enabled HD DVR service, slated to launch in the second half of 2009. The product will support the latest TiVo and DirecTV features and services, including TiVo's Universal Swivel Search and TiVo KidZone.
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