Analyst: Dish May Have To Shut Down 8M DVRs After TiVo Legal Loss

Satellite TV Operator May Lose Ability to Offer DVR, Says Sanford Bernstein's Moffett

Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News -- TWICE, 3/5/2010

Dish Network may be forced to disable as many as 8 million of its DVRs within a month, after the satellite TV operator lost an appeals court decision Thursday in its years-long battle with TiVo. Moreover, Dish could even lose the ability to offer a DVR altogether, according to Sanford Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett.

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