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Microsoft's Family Room Change

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the readjusting-the-strategy dept.

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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  1. Good, more Market Share for TIVO by SpookComix · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    If it's one thing I can be happy about, it's that Tivo has one more reason to be dominant now. MS's offering was crap, and poorly supported and implemented. I own a Tivo, and with one less stumbling block out of the way (MS out of the market), there is one more reason for someone looking for a PVR to buy a Tivo. More purchases, more subsciptions, more customers...longer product life.

    The best thing about the Tivo is that it runs Linux! Just the other day I booted into Linux (after an uptime of at least 7 weeks) and I noticed that my icons were damaged in KDE. I emailed the developers, and it turns out that there is a new release of mod_widget that fixes that very problem!

    Anyway, if any of you have this same problem, just be sure to visit the main site and do a search for "mod_widget". Add the word "+damaged +deuglify +QTSplat" to your search to narrow it down a bit.

    This is the Power of Open Source, people!

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  2. Re:Wow by Xpilot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That was sarcasm right? Uh...right??

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  3. Is this news for nerds? by Penguinoflight · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't think it is, for a few reasons.

    1. Nerds don't watch tv, and if they did they'd watch it on their computer. (monitor.size > tv.size)

    2. Xbox sucks already and this will just make it worse. Fine for PS2, but we should be playing Linux games. (see point 1.)

    3. Xbox uses Nvidia, Nvidia is closed source. We use Radeon 64mb or Voodoo 5, or Radeon 8500.

    4. Xbox uses intel. intel is dumb, even if a p3 is ok.

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  4. Re:M$ hall of fame by einer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How DARE you tell it like it is! This is Slashdot!