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[Windowsfordevices.com] According to Microsoft, the "end-to-end solution" enables network operators to offer enhanced services such as video-on-demand (VOD), games, news, weather, and sports to consumer set-top boxes (STBs) and TV devices, and includes an "innovative" interactive program guide. Microsoft TV Foundation Edition is a software layer targeting cable operators with tens of millions of installed low-end STBs, which have highly constrained hardware resources -- typically, processing performance on the order of 15 MHz with as little as 1MB of memory.
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