Finisar accuses DirecTV of violating patents Finisar Corp., a maker of gear for optical networks, Wednesday accused DirecTV Group Inc. of violating patents for an information-transmission system. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, located in Beaumont, Texas, Sunnyvale-based Finisar said it seeks monetary damages and injunctive […]
Sea Launch Plans Newest Satellite Launch The DIRECTV Group has scheduled a late April launch for a satellite aboard a Sea Launch rocket. Sea Launch, which launches satellites into orbit from a mobile sea-going platform near the equator, is headquartered in Long Beach. The Boeing-built Spaceway F1 satellite is one of four that DIRECTV has […]
DirecTV Shares Could Rise More Than 50 Pct – Barron’s Shares of satellite television provider DirecTV Group Inc. could rise more than 50 percent within the next year, a Wall Street analyst told Barron’s newspaper. DirecTV could prove to be a cheap investment in pay-television if it increases its cash flow at rates expected by […]
AOL, XM Satellite to start Web radio service America Online Monday announced plans to launch a Web-based radio service with XM Satellite Radio in a move that may help XM win customers from AOL’s 24 million subscribers. The service, which will offer about 200 channels streamed over the Web in CD-quality sound for a monthly […]
Radio quality of either satellite radio service isn’t quite what either Sirius or XM Radio would have you believe in their marketing hype. It is not pure CD quality (although, technically, that may be what they’re streaming). (See this interesting thread on Sirius and XM sound quality.) I’m not the first to notice or comment […]
Good service and bad from Dish Network I have been using Dish Network for more than a year. In my December bill, there was a pay-per-view charge of $10.99 which we did not use. I called to inquire and my extra charge got eliminated from the bill. I was impressed with their customer service. Later, […]
XM, Sirius gaining traction Car dealer Tom Barenboim considered himself a skeptic of satellite radio until a customer made it clear: He wasn’t going to buy the $34,000 silver Jeep Grand Cherokee unless it had a $199 satellite receiver. “Two months ago, I would have told you I didn’t really see it getting any traction,” […]
Sirius Scores Four-Year Wimbledon Deal Adding to its growing Sports lineup, Sirius Satellite Radio announced Wednesday it has signed a four-year agreement with the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club to air play-by-play and other courtside updates of the Wimbledon Championships. As part of the agreement, Sirius will become the Official Satellite Radio Partner […]
Stock Madness 2005: Netflix vs. Sirius And so it ends. Here. Now. With the unlikeliest of unlikely finals. Sirius vs. Netflix. One is an outrageously overvalued satellite radio company. And the other is a movie rental business in decline. To get here, each of us has had to sink a lot of the kind of […]
Did DIRECTV Try to Buy TiVo? A little over a year ago, the DIRECTV-TiVo relationship seemed to be a perfect marriage. The satellite TV provider was using the Digital Video Recording service to attract new subscribers, particularly among early adopters of new technology. TiVo, which had struggled to persuade VCR owners to try the new […]