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Sunday, May 18, 2008
Entertainment

Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV Is Way Better Than Cable or Satellite

1:00AM Jason Chen | Microsoft’s Mediaroom is the company’s IPTV solution that brings TV into to your house (much like cable and satellite) over IP. You might be familiar with it in its commercially released service forms such as AT&T U-Verse here in the US or BT Vision in the UK. The features out now—quick channel changing, multiple channel records simultaneously without a hardware tuner limit, multi-room viewing, multiple picture-in-picture—are pretty fantastic, but we had a visit with Microsoft earlier this week and learned that what’s coming soon is even better.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
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Microsoft Announces Mediaroom IPTV

3:18AM Seamus Byrne | Microsoft rolled out a new brand for its IPTV tools for service providers, and it’s calling it Mediaroom. Formerly called Microsoft IPTV Edition, it’s more of a branding exercise for IPTV companies to brag about than actual new technology. Using the Mediaroom name, Microsoft aims to make the whole concept of IPTV easier for home users to understand. Let’s see if we can make some sense of it. With Mediaroom, Microsoft’s interface brings together lots of existing technologies in to one set-top box offered to customers of IPTV services such as AT&T’s U-Verse, letting users instantly access TV shows, Internet video, and practically any multimedia content that’s now available on the Internet, on cable TV or broadcast, when and where they want it. This will allow service providers to compete against the burgeoning Internet TV offerings such as Joost, as well as cable TV providers. Seen by many analysts as the successor to cable TV, right now IPTV subscribers number just 3 million, but that number is expected to jump to 50 million in 2010. What’s in Microsoft’s latest witches brew of TV goodness? More »
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