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Articles about mediaroom: December 1, 2008

Bill Gates announces the death of (network) TV at CES

by JG Mason on Jan 7, 2008 at 10:11 AM

Gates at CES
The death of TV, really?  Quite possibly, yes.  Microsoft didn’t say that of course, but if you put all the pieces announced tonight together, you come to a pretty obvious conclusion rather quickly.  Network TV, at least as we know it, will die.

Here are the puzzle pieces, see if you come to the same conclusion I did:

IPTV
At tonight’s CES 2008 Keynote, Microsoft made a big announcement:  they’ve got 1 million set top boxes for its Mediaroom.  This is 6 months ahead of schedule for Microsoft.  They’ve done this pretty quietly now, but at this rate they are adding 2 IPTV subscribers every minute. 

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