Monday, May 21, 2007

Round 3 in DIRECTV vs. Cable HDTV War

First, Time Warner Cable sued DIRECTV over its television ads promoting the satellite provider's alleged HD superiority over cable HD. Then Comcast came out with a third-party study showing that consumers in some unspecified area preferred Comcast's high-def picture quality to that of both DIRECTV and DISH. Now DIRECTV is suing Comcast over the results of that study, alleging "false advertising and deceptive trade practices."

Ugh. Would it be too much to ask that all these companies just launch as many high-quality HD channels as quickly as possible and forget about the litigation? Yeah, I suppose it would...

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