Microsoft is adding an ad-supported Internet TV service to its Windows Media Center platform for home-based media viewing and management. The beta feature will initially bring approximately 100 hours of full-screen and on-demand MSN Video content to Media
Vongo offers unlimited movie downloads to your PC for $9.99 a month (USA only) and you can then easily stream these movies from your PC to your Xbox 360. Vongo make it sound pretty easy: "The Xbox 360 will automatically check to see which Windows XP or
In order to watch TV on the console, though, customers need to have an ISP that plans to offer the service across their network. Phone companies are the ones deploying IPTV as a way of competing with cable, so it's no coincidence that the five partners Mi
So Microsoft, having failed in the past to gain much traction in the set-top box business, is using the Xbox to try again. But instead of trying to sell it to the entrenched cable companies, it will pitch the Xbox set-top box to new entrants into the TV
Xbox and IPTV: The most surprising Xbox announcement—and yet it’s natural enough to be expected—is the marriage of Xbox and IPTV. Bach ticked off the known ways users can access HDTV through Microsoft: HD DVD, Media Center, Xbox Live Video. He added
The relative success of video downloads on Microsoft's Xbox Live and disappointment of Amazon.com's Unbox point to two factors that differentiate Xbox from Amazon and its many other competitors -- consumers who download a movie want a simple way to watch
HD-DVD is spectacular I was unable to find a single artifact in the copy of 'V' the same was true for Tokyo Drift which is rather hard content to encode. Marketplace videos on most TV's in most home theatres, also spectacular. You being the Video en
As you know, we have been experiencing technical difficulties associated with the extremely high number of downloads from the Video Marketplace service over the past 24 hours. We understand these technical issues have resulted in a very unpleasant experie
Shows like CSI, South Park and Studio 60 are now available for download via Xbox Live’s marketplace, as previously announced. Also, some download-to-rent movies are available in high definition. Full details and content list follows…
This time there will be no pretense of complementarity: Internet TV will eat directly into TV, cable and operator-run VOD. Net neutrality will be even hotter than today.
