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[itvt] –The company announced last week that US incumbent telco, AT&T, whose U-verse IPTV service is powered by the Mediaroom platform, plans to use Microsoft PlayReady content access and protection technology to enable shared content and converged entertainment experiences across its television, broadband and wireless services. As part of the deal, Microsoft says it will add support for PlayReady into the Mediaroom platform, enabling access to PlayReady-based content through AT&T U-verse set-top boxes.

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[TVover.net] Microsoft Mediaroom Alumni Develop ''Mediaroom in a Box'' Solution ...: -- Services -- Full Architecture and Deployment Services for Mediaroom -- B/OSS Integration Service -- Software -- 180SQUARED Framework B/OSS Package -- Global Operations Manager -- B/OSS Interfaces and Work Flow Engine -- Basic STB Management -- Caller ID -- Remote (Web) PVR

[ReadWriteWeb] Flash Comes to the Living Room - ReadWriteWeb: they got Media Center, they got the Xbox, IP-TV, Microsoft TV (top box firmaware in many cable top boxes around the world) and Mediaroom (the integration of Media Center, IP-TV and Microsoft TV into one). that also don't counts that they could also go the route of making partnerships with Samsung and LG for the North American market as they will not let go of the Asian market and probably will use their own solutions over there.

[Digital Satellite TV News] Microsoft Alumni Develop ”˜Mediaroom in a Box’: PLEASANTON, CA ”” 180Squared, Incâ™, a team of former Microsoft® Mediaroomâ™ architects with extensive IPTV product and services expertise, today announced a new Mediaroom solution geared towards smaller carriers.

[Eco Friendly Mag] Alcatel-Lucent’s Digital Media Suite of Products Support Microsoft ...: Alcatel-Lucent has announced that its digital media suite of products now support the Microsoft Mediaroom Presentation Framework. The Microsoft Mediaroom Presentation Framework is a multimedia application environment for the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV platform.

[The Microsoft Blog] The story behind Microsoft's 'Mediaroom' brand: Q: Why can't Microsoft buy 'Coolness'? A: Because Coolness has a poison pill in its contract in the event of a Microsoft takeover.

[xchange] Microsoft Milestone: Mediaroom IPTV on Cable Network: Microsoft says Guangzhou Digital Media Group has formally launched Zhujiang Digital, a connected TV service powered by the Microsoft Mediaroom platform. The vendor says this is the first time Mediaroom has been delivered “over a cable network anywhere in the world.”

[Telepedia] Microsoft Showcases Mediaroom for IPTV at NAB (BillingWorld ...: NAB ”• Microsoft has a big presence at NAB in Las Vegas this week, focusing on showcasing its Mediaroom for IPTV. Microsoft says Mediaroom drives down costs.

[itvt] Amino’s AssetHouse Partners with 180Squared, Sun Microsystems « itvt: Cambridge, UK-based IPTV set-top box vendor, Amino Communications, said Thursday that AssetHouse, the digital proposition management company that it acquired last June (see [itvt] Issue 7.87 Part 1), has formed a new partnership with 180Squared, a company which specializes in software and integration services for Microsoft’s Mediaroom IPTV platform (and which earlier this week launched “Mediaroom in a Box,” a Mediaroom solution geared towards smaller carriers–see the article published on itvt.com, April 15th).

[Keith Jack's Blog] More Microsoft IPTV Deployments in Latin America?: According to TV TELCO Latam, Microsoft could soon add Codetel in the Dominican Republic and PRT (Claro) of Puerto Rico, both part of América Móvil, to its existing Microsoft Mediaroom deployment with Mexico’s Maxcom.

[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.

[Connected TV] IPTV World Forum: AT&T U-verse and the multi-room, multi-screen ...: Day Two of the IPTV World Forum began for Connected TV with a presentation from Griff Parry, director of on-demand at BSkyB, who (as Sky executives are always prone to at such events) ended his remarks by playing the audience a glossy promotional video. This showed how a typical multi-screen Sky household in 2012 might be consuming the pay-TV operator’s content.

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