Microsoft's Family Room Change

michael_cain writes "Siliconvalley.com is reporting that Microsoft is shutting down its Ultimate TV project. The service itself will continue to be offered. The set top box hardware developers are moving to the XBox organization. With the sales of the XBox already larger than either Ultimate TV or its predecessor, WebTV, it looks like Microsoft is adopting the game console as their method-of-choice for getting a platform to run their software into the family room." I found the decision to more or less put UltimateTV on life support and discontinue active work on it interesting - that leaves TiVo and ReplayTV as the main standing competitors.

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Home entertainment center - The Next Generation

[Koim-Do]

As MS pushes the X-Box as "home entertainment center", and would be happy to see xbexes replacing tv-sets, the logical addition to the next "entertainment center" (whatever will be it`s name) is a (secure? huh!) survellience camera. now it i`s "home entartainment and security center". We already know where have you gone today.

Re:My Experience with UTV: Four of Five Stars

[Frizzle Fry]

Jesus, why does everything have to be turned into a holy war about whose product is better? He is simply saying that he has been happy with his UTV and it does everything he needs. There is no need to respond with "So what, Tivo can do this too. So there." Nobody cares about Tivo, that's completely offtopic right now.