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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060106/tc_nm/media_echostar_tivo_dc_1
EchoStar Communications Corp. chief executive Charles Ergen on Thursday said he expects no settlement in its legal battle with TiVo Inc. and expects the suit to proceed to the courts.
TiVo and EchoStar, the No. 2 U.S. satellite television service, sued each other, each claiming the other infringed patents related to Digital Video Recorders, television set-top boxes that allow users to save programs to a built-in computer hard drive.
Asked if there was a chance of a settlement, Ergen, who was attending a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, said, "I really don't think so."