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Article: EchoStar looks to outduel TiVo.(EchoStar Communications Corp.)
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- May 1, 2005
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TiVo has become a household word, but many TV industry observers see TiVo the company as a dead duck. Hype aside, Littleton's EchoStar Communications Corp. has been neck-and-neck with TiVo on the DVR track since 1999, when EchoStar's DISH Network released the market's first digital video recorder (DVR)--just before TiVo did.
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"It's a marriage made in heaven for satellite TV," said EchoStar spokesperson Marc Lumpkin. "Everything I watch is in digital and everything I record is in digital, so there's no degradation of the signal."
While EchoStar partnered with Microsoft on that first product, ...