Microsoft braces for crucial TV test
Posted by malebolgia on 05 November 2004 - 19:44 · 7 comments & 953 views
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#1 Posted by SunnyB on 05 Nov 2004 - 20:47
Might be OK as long as we don't have to sit through 15 minutes of Microsoft commercials
selling everything from server software to virus scanners.
Commercials are the TV equivalent of spam, except you can't delete them.
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#2 Posted by SimplyPotatoes on 05 Nov 2004 - 20:48
- i cant wait.
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#3 Posted by markjensen on 05 Nov 2004 - 22:26
- Reminds me of a bit of The Outer Limits.
QUOTE There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. 
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#4 Posted by chacho on 06 Nov 2004 - 00:53
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#5 Posted by ork on 06 Nov 2004 - 07:08
- Its just a replacement of TVGuide software which runs on todays STBs and clearly is horrible. Microsoft's foundation edition is definately much better then TVGuide.
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#6 Posted by anog on 07 Nov 2004 - 01:25
- We had Microsoft Tv here in portugal...
They ended the subscription.. it was just plain horrible and hardly worked at all!
But one guy who came here once told me it was the hardware's fault: they were using Pentium II - 266 mhz... So that wouldn't be Microsoft's fault.
But instead of replacing the hardware they just ended the service. My box is still sitting there, waiting to be picked up. Probably never will.. might as well use it as a pc
The software maker has spent years working on the software and invested billions of dollars in cable companies, but has seen only modest returns. Now, thanks to a deal with Comcast, the largest cable TV provider in the United States, Microsoft hopes its fortunes are changing. On Monday, the two companies are expected to announce details about how their efforts are proceeding at a press conference on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Wash.
"This is hugely important to the future of Microsoft TV," Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff said, commenting on Microsoft's cable push in general. "If Microsoft TV becomes successful at Comcast, it will rapidly spread through the rest of the cable industry in the U.S. If it isn't successful, then they have spent 10 years for nothing."
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