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DirecTV buys ReplayTV


December 14, 2007 DirecTV purchased the assets of ReplayTV from D&M, a Tokyo-based consumer electronics company that bought ReplayTV from SonicBlue, which bought the company in 2001, four years after it was founded. ReplayTV battled TiVo for supremacy in the late 1990s, and lost, and was nearly driven out of business in 2002 when television broadcasters and movie studios sued it over its ad-skipping features and ability to copy and share content. D&M acquired ReplayTV, along with the digital music player Rio, for about $36 million after SonicBlue filed for bankruptcy in 2003.

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