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Is Dish considering swallowing TiVo's $7.5 billion poison pill?
One of our favorite rumors rides again, but this time it's Dish that might be interested in buying TiVo. The new twist this time though is the motivation, and we can totally see how Dish would love to make this happen. The problem of course is that TiVo isn't interested in any such shenanigans and has gone as far as to write a poison pill into its bylaws. Our friend Davis Freeberg has been writing about TiVo's poison pill for years and more recently, at about the same time as the latest court decision came down against Dish, he saw some interesting traffic in his web server logs from none other than a Dish Network IP. No clue who the user was, but they spent some time reading up on TiVo's poison pill. Davis is no lawyer, but it is his understanding that if Dish attempted to take over TiVo, it'd cost them about $71 per share -- which comes to about $7.5 Billion. This is about seven times what the stock is actually worth and although we'd be shocked if this happened, we have to admit that crazier things have.
Movie theaters to screen live sporting events in 3D
How are movie theaters going to bring back people like me and Davis Freeberg even after we've got high definition DVD's in our own homes? By showing live sporting events in 3D. The same technology used for Chicken Little 3D could soon be used to bring away games to the home crowd. They could also broadcast other live events like concerts, and hope to start doing this in 2007.I didn't go see Chicken Little 3D in theaters, so I don't know how impressive the effect was, did any of you and do you think this will be enough to trump the lure of HDTV?
