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[Missing Remote - Your source for everything home theater & HTPC related] More generally, there's been a suspicion that Mediaroom is losing rank at Microsoft. According to another source, who spoke with Light Reading at last month's TelcoTV conference, IPTV is a profitable business at Microsoft -- just not profitable enough.

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[MobilityWire®] MobilityWire® » RGB Networks' Video Multiprocessing Gateway ...: “Combining Mediaroom certification with the VMG’s unmatched transcoding performance, scalability and stream processing capacity make it an ideal solution for service providers to maximize return from their Mediaroom-based IPTV services,” said Yuval Fisher, Chief Technology Officer for RGB Networks. “This approval by Microsoft opens up exciting opportunities for us to introduce the VMG, with its unique combination of features, performance and carrier-class reliability to Mediaroom users around the world, enabling them to cost-effectively deploy advanced services to any video-enabled device.”

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