ReplayTV changes hands again, acquired by DirecTV

December 12th, 2007 | Category: Tech Talk

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DirecTV just did itself a solid and picked up the pre-TiVo DVR company, ReplayTV, from parent company D&M. We don’t know what all bundle of valuable time-shifting IP and patents wound up being worth in the mold of an acquisition price tag, but it’s got to be a pretty penny — particularly to a company like DirecTV, which has watched its peers have a prickly run-in or two with TiVo and its heavyweight “time warp” patent. Something tells

us the type will probably only live on in legacy alone, though. We just can’t see much reason for DirecTV to bother carrying on with the half-assed comeback ReplayTV’s been trying to compose by the past couple of years.

[Via Zatz Not Funny]

 

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