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[TechNews AM] AT&T Choses Microsoft PlayReady... (Uberphones) » TechNews.AM: AT&T and Microsoft have announced that AT&T has chosen Microsoft’s PlayReady content access and protection technology in order to enable next-generation entertainment services for its mobile and in-home offerings. Microsoft has confirmed that it intends to add support for PlayReady into its Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV software platform, giving access to PlayReady content via AT&T U-verse and TV set-top boxes.

[BlogLive at CTIA] AT&T uses Microsoft for three-screen sharing | BlogLive at CTIA: Microsoft will add support for PlayReady into its Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV software platform, so that any PlayReady-based content is viewable through AT&T U-Verse IPTV set-top boxes. Microsoft said the goal is to provide integrated .

[Wp Wordpress] AT&T to use Microsoft PlayReady technology for converged services: Under the collaboration, Microsoft will add support for PlayReady into its Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV software platform, enabling access to PlayReady-based content through the set-top boxes for its IPTV service ‘U-verse TV’. PlayReady is described as offering features such as service domains and embedded licences specifically designed to make it easy for consumers to enjoy content on all their registered devices, without the need for an active connection.

[Turk.internet.com English News] Turk.internet.com | Microsoft to showcase IPTV on Xbox 360 |: IPTV on Xbox 360 is expected to be available through select service providers as early as the holiday season in 2007. Some of the world's largest telecommunications service providers have chosen Microsoft IPTV Edition as their IPTV software solution, with scaled commercial deployments currently under way with AT&T, BT Group PLC, Deutsche Telekom, T-Online in France and Swisscom.

[IPTV News] IPTV Service Features: One-third of “entertainment-oriented” households are willing to pay more than their current country average for the features and content they want, while another 33 percent would switch for new features at the same price. Entertainment-oriented households currently spend money on entertainment through either a home Internet subscription, a home pay TV subscription, or higher-than-average monthly entertainment spending on items such as DVD rentals and purchases.

[ABI Research - Telematics Industry Blog Feed] Conditional Access and DRM: Focus On CATV, DBS and IPTV Platforms: It also provides discussion, detailed forecasts, and market trend analysis for OCAP, two-way-ready DCR devices (IDCR TVs and CE devices) and software based DRM. Market segmentation data is interpreted with rigorous analysis and updated with the latest trends, news and vendor partnership announcements.

[StreamingMedia.com: Industry News Feed] Streamingmedia.com: Spawn Labs Uses MAKO-HDâ™ H.264 Codec to Enable ...: Based in Montreal, Quebec, and in Chicago, Ill., HaiVision Network Video is a private company and a world leader in delivering the most advanced video networking technology and IPTV solutions. HaiVision's products are deployed worldwide within the foremost Fortune 100 companies, in the most rigorous military and defense applications, in healthcare facilities for video collaboration and training, for education and remote learning, in interactive broadcast applications, IPTV, and within the world's leading TelePresence suites.

[Telco 2.0] Telco 2.0: Telco 2.0 Interview: Steve Zimba, Microsoft: This integrates their PC, IPTV and mobile offerings with a combined software and services offering, supported by telecoms-specific capabilities and a third party ecosystem. Steve Zimba.

[D' Technology Weblog] AT&T chooses Microsoft PlayReady to enable shared content across ...: Microsoft and AT&T announced a collaborative effort to use Microsoft PlayReady content access and protection technology to enable shared content and converged entertainment experiences across AT&T’s TV, broadband and wireless services. As part of this collaboration, Microsoft intends to add support for PlayReady into its Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV software platform, enabling access to PlayReady-based content through AT&T U-verse TV set-top boxes.

[ABI Research - Telematics Industry Blog Feed] Home Media Servers and Entertainment Hubs: The DLNA standard, built upon UPnP, has given life to consumer electronics vendors looking to create networked entertainment products, including devices such as media servers. Set-top box providers and their video delivery partners are positioned to have their set top box as the primary delivery server for pay TV content, but are also incorporating technology for long-tail content as well.

[Telco 2.0] Telco 2.0: Deconstructing Microsoft’s “Telco 2.0” approach: If all the Telco 2.0 consumers were CIO-like, then Microsoft's offerings might be more attractive. To be fair, the shift to micro-marketing appears equally foreign to companies like Motorola and Dell, so even vendors with a better track record than Microsoft in the consumer marketing space are having difficulty adapting.

[blog maverick] Why Do Internet People Think Content People Are Stupid ? - updated ...: The vast majority of broadband internet users already subscribe to a video service, so for most people they would not even notice a change.  So it would make absolutely zero sense for legit content providers to compete with the most consistent and largest source of revenue they have.  In fact, because the TV Everywhere approach will most likely not only increase the value of cable, telco video and sat video subscriptions, but also increase the value of broadband and mobile internet subscriptions (because of the content and the fact  the video can be hosted intra- network and deliver far better quality), TV Everywhere should be a no brainer

[CNET News.com] Microsoft, NASA put universe back on the Web | Webware - CNET: The WorldWide Telescope is a Web 2.0 visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery fromground- and space-based telescopes for a seamless, rich media-guided exploration of the universe. Through WorldWide Telescope and Microsoft technology, people will be able to pan and zoom in on these images and the most interesting locations on Mars and the moon without distorted views at the poles.

[Melbourne News KnÅ©t] Zune vs Ipod vs Creative « Melbourne News KnÅ©t: Microsoft also said it was working with a number of leading electronics manufacturers to develop peripherals: Altec Lansing, Belkin, Digital Lifestyle Outfitters (DLO), Dual Electronics, Griffin Technology, Harman Kardon and JBL, Integrated Mobile Electronics, Jamo International, Klipsch Audio Technologies, Logitech, Monster Cable Products, Speck, Targus Group International Inc. and VAF Research.

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