Wow, Fox content is popping up everywhere (TitanTV, Yahoo, AOL, IGN). This morning my mom got an email linked to an Amazon “Fox Fall TV Sneak Peek” page of numerous series video clips.

UPDATE: Looks like Fox is advertising on 50 (!) sites. Wonder how much a video campaign of this magnitude costs…

(Thanks Mom!)

Never enough time…

• TiVo tastes some sweet revenge. (Wired)
• Yahoo television guide updated with video clips and pilot episodes. (Yahoo)
• What’s holding up international deployment of SlingPlayer Mobile? (SlingCommunity)
• Omnicom Media Group signs advertising agreement With TiVo. (TiVo)
• KnoppMyth updated. (PVRWire)

TiVo sues EchoStar. EchoStar retaliates by suing TiVo. Fast forward a year or so… EchoStar’s suit is stayed, pending analysis by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

ALVISO, Calif., Aug 28, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ — TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO), the creator of and the leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVR), today offered the following statement on the court stay of EchoStar Technology Corporation’s lawsuit against TiVo and Humax USA. On July 14, 2006, United States Magistrate Judge Caroline M. Craven for the United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas, issued a stay order, which is now final.

“We are pleased with the Court’s order to stay EchoStar Technology Corporation’s patent infringement litigation pending the outcome of the USPTO reexamination proceedings of certain EchoStar patents. The reexamination requests TiVo submitted to the USPTO detail how a large number of prior art references that the USPTO did not previously consider raise substantial new questions regarding the validity of the claims EchoStar asserted and why those claims are invalid. TiVo will continue to defend its technology vigorously and will not be intimidated by claims such as those EchoStar asserted against TiVo — claims EchoStar asserted in response to TiVo’s successful suit against EchoStar. As the jury found on April 13, 2006 in TiVo’s suit against EchoStar, EchoStar willfully infringed TiVo’s pioneering time warping patent. TiVo will continue to vigorously pursue its rights in that case.”

The order grants a stay in the proceedings in EchoStar Technology Corporation’s lawsuit against TiVo and Humax USA, Inc. regarding the alleged infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 5,774,186 (”Interruption Tolerant Video Program Viewing”), 6,208,804 B1 (”Multimedia Direct Access Storage Device and Formatting Method”), and 6,529,685 B2 (”Multimedia Direct Access Storage Device and Formatting Method”) pending the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) completion of proceedings with respect to TiVo’s request for reexamination of those patents.

Never enough time…

• TiVo Series3 release date and pricing rumors abound. (HDBeat, PVRBlog)
• Learning to love the cable guy (yeah right). (NY Times)
• Cable companies lose round in CableCARD battle. (CNET)
• Toshiba HD DVD 2.0 firmware released. (HDBeat)

Speak Chinese? Me neither. But if we did, we might want to check out the relatively new tivousergroup.com: “Taiwan’s first unofficial TiVo website.” Like the TCF, they have a variety of forum categories — TiVo-specific, television content, and social. To those of you in Taiwan who’ve stumbled upon my TiVoToGo tutorials, welcome.

The TiVo Ministry pitched KidZone to clergy in Dallas and Atlanta this week while picking up the National Association of Evangelicals Seal of Approval. TiVo plans to visit other religious leaders later this month at the Islamic Center, Wiccan Church, and Temple Shalom.* Also this week, TiVo deployed on-box advertising to get the KZ word out. I still don’t have any use for this feature, but I imagine there are parents of varying political and religious leanings who will put it to use (and many who won’t bother).

Washington Post says: TiVo officials discussed its KidZone feature during a breakfast with religious leaders and handed out digital video recorders to ministers and others to try it out. “We know that kids are going to be exposed to the media, so why don’t we take the media on our own terms?” TiVo Inc. Vice President Joe Miller told the group of about 50. A similar gathering was held earlier this week in Atlanta.

*To the best of my knowledge that is a joke.