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Microsoft signs an IPTV deal with Telecom Italy

11 September 2004 10:02 by Petteri "dRD" Pyyny | 1 comment

Microsoft hasn't buried its old TV ambitions, but has instead revamped the whole concept into something that it calls as IPTV. Company's idea is to provide a service for telecom companies where they could offer their DSL (and other types of broadband services, naturally, even though cable companies aren't probably too interested of the concept..) subscribers a set-top box that would connect to their TVs and broadband Net connection instead of traditional cable network, and stream TV content over the IP networks.

Microsoft just announced a deal with Telecom Italy to run trials of the IPTV in Italy to selected group of Telecom Italy's customers. Thomson has developed the set-top boxes used in the service and will start distributing the units under two of its brand names -- Thomson and RCA. Boxes support variety of video codecs, including the traditional MPEG-2 alongside with Microsoft's own WMV9 and MPEG-4 (advanced profile and H-264).

Source: News.com

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Toiletman (Senior Member) 12 September 2004 9:21
Pardon my ignorance, but is this really necessary? Frankly, I don't see the point. Isn't this like a minisized version of the Media Home Machine (or similiarily named project) that the Microsoft are currently working on? [ + quote]