Posts by ChampaignWalt

This is just sophestry. Corporations are *legally* beholden to lots of entities: bond holders, share holders, venders they owe money too, clients they owe product/services to, land lord, uncle sam for taxes owed,...

Well said. Quote: Originally Posted by ritafp I think your argument fails on several logical and legal grounds. In common law when there is a confusion over the meaning ("lifetime" service, for example) the dispute...

There's no mention of service or subscripton because back then there was no service you bought in addition to the product. No need to pay a price to "activate" your box. In fact, that was also true for all models up until the 4500's came...

Everyone likes to talk about HD being the way of the future...ok fine...but remember replaytv and tivo both have/had the ability to record in 3 lvls of quality (high, medium, and standard). So even as bad as standard def is, people with...

"Lifetime" has to mean the "lifetime" of something/someone (the box or the customer). That's common sense. Using "lifetime" when they mean something else is deceptive. They also had made it clear that "lifetime" would transfer to a...

Adam, ever read 1984? Are you familar with "newspeak"? ReplayTV said "lifetime" and it was pretty clear it was the life of the box. It was replaytv that said "lifetime" service would transfer to new owners and again, never put any time...

Adam, a buisness owes us something because they sold it to us. "Lifetime" was the word THEY used. If they meant 3 years, or 5 years, or 10 years, they should have said as much. In fact, at one point (and I'm not sure how long they did...

Quote: Originally Posted by brobin I think we should at least give them the benefit of the doubt and a chance to unveil more details next week. Perhaps they didn't realize the impact that cutting off the service would have for so many...

Thanks guys! And DNNA, what was with that "fire drill"?

I know I would have problems trusting DNNA. I'd like to know what DNNA has to say officially about the service going forward (in addition to the vague language already put out).