ReplayTV Bought by DirecTV
December 14, 2007 by Zach Flauaus
Filed under Electronics
With ReplayTV units fading away from our memories and being replaced by TiVos, Motorolas, and other DVRs, they’ve come out of the woodwork to announce that they’ve been bought by DirecTV. D&M Holdings, a Japan-based holding company, has said that it has sold the ReplayTV business to DirecTV for “an undisclosed sum.” Random fact thrown in the Reuters report, D&M also bought Rio in 2003 for $36 million, and then proceeded to sell it two years later. As of now, ReplayTV does not make physical hardware DVR boxes as in the past, but do provide TV recording software that hasn’t gotten much talk at all. Whether DirecTV will use the ReplayTV resources to their whim of updating their DVRs with a new interface, or maybe scrap their current DVR lineup and replace them with Replay units is yet to be seen. This will be something to keep an eye on for sure.
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