According to CNN Money, DirecTV is getting ready to introduce a new DVR service that could be ready as soon as mid-2005.
“NDS Group, the company behind the new technology, plans to deliver its DVR software to DirecTV by April, USA Today said. But DirecTV remains tight-lipped about the NDS-powered DVR.
Spokesman Bob Marsocci told the paper that DirecTV plans to introduce “an alternate DVR product and service in the first half of next year.”
But the company won’t disclose who’s making decoders – the satellite receiver/DVR combo box-equipped for the new DVR service, although South Korea’s Humax is known to be one company on the list. “
We are unsure of what this means for DirecTV’s current partner TiVo which currently has 61% of their subscribers belonging to the DirecTV service. DishNetwork which is a direct competitor, sells DVR units under their own brand.
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Found VIA Engadget
