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VIRTUALISATION Microsoft's Mediaroom boosts IPTV platform capabilities
VIRTUALISATION Microsoft's Mediaroom boosts IPTV platform capabilities | Microsoft's Mediaroom boosts IPTV platform capabilities |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 18 June 2007 | |
  
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Mediaroom is intended for incorporation in set top boxes offered by IPTV providers. 17 providers (including AT&T's U-Verse) have selected Microsoft's platform, and nine of them have begun commercial deployments. The new Mediaroom software incorporates many of the features people have come to expect on PCs and high-end TV services, including listening to music and viewing digital photos stored elsewhere on a home network, picture-in-picture, and digital terrestrial television support. Mediaroom offers improved support for Web services and applications, enabling features such as dynamic video-on-demand portals, casual games and interactive TV services. Microsoft has also announced the Mediaroom Application Development toolkit to assist in the creation of such applications. "With personal media sharing and new application development capabilities, Microsoft Mediaroom brings the consumer television experience to a new level, enabling the best in TV, plus access to all your media in one place," said Rodriguez.{moscomment} |
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