engadget.com — With Zune and Vista hogging all the headlines these days, you may have forgotten that Microsoft is also hard at work pushing its IPTV Edition software platform into living rooms around the world, so the software giant decided to take the Broadband World Forum Europe in Paris as occasion to remind us just how committed it is to TV over the internet.
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mrmagooOct 11, 2006
Could we fit any more acronyms in that title? I'm pretty tech savvy and I barely understand it...
flag564Oct 11, 2006
How many post before the Apple heads show up to tell us how much this sucks and ITV is just going to crush this? Or how many post before some lame c. 1998 joke about BSOD is worked in?
ripbergeOct 11, 2006
"TV over the internet"? Hardly. Try TV over AT&T's private IP network. If they were really looking to do that then they would let all that fiber and ADSL bandwidth be used by something other than their own proprietary (and expensive) TV service. IPTV isn't an innovation, its the same old BS, just a different protocol. Boo!!!!
t0ddgreg0ryOct 13, 2006
Do we know that it will be private? I believe the plan is that the new IP networks (presently being built) will allow streaming of any internet content, regular Television stations and even terminal services at some point. I am sure the poor Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) we have today will not be forgotten ...A lot of big wigs are getting involved. Here's another article about the same sort of story<a class="user" href="http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,20573247-14305,00.html">http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,20573247-14305,00.html</a>