jori.hamalainen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > * U.S. patent number 6,847,778, entitled Multimedia Visual > Progress Indication System, which describes, among other > things, methods for displaying a trick play bar to a user > which visually indicates the amount of stored program > material or the length of a recording session as well as > the user's current position within the stored program > material. This means we can't use a progress bar? How absurd. > > * U.S. patent number 6,792,195, entitled Method and Apparatus > Implementing Random Access and Time-Based Functions on a > Continuous Stream of Formatted Digital Data, which > describes methods of controlling streaming media in a > digital device, including the functions that enable DVRs to > pause live TV as well as rewind, fast-forward, play, play > faster, play slower, and play in reverse television signals > cached by the DVR. So, now its too late. We can never have a replay buffer? I really wanted to implement that. > > * TiVo has also acquired the exclusive right to license and > enforce U.S. patent number 5,241,428 entitled Variable- > Delay Video Recorder known in the industry as the > Goldwasser Patent. Filed in March 1991, the Goldwasser > Patent is one of the earliest patents regarding digital > video recorders of which TiVo is aware. This patent covers > devices that permit the simultaneous recording and playback > of video material with a variable time delay between > recording and playback of a given video program segment. > Doesn't VDR already do this as well? So, legally, we cant record and playback at the same time? Ridiculous. Patents are a terrible thing for open source. They bind our hands, steal our hobbies and kill our jobs. PS: For every patent they issue, God kills a puppy. Think about the puppies!
