Microsoft's Family Room Change

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday January 22, 2002 @05:14AM 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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Motives by isa-kuruption · 2002-01-22 05:21 · Score: 1, Troll

What they plan to do is release the new and improved XBox V2 (twice as many "Green" screens of death, twice the price) with UltimateTV compatibility. This way, you get 2 boxes for the price of one! Since you already want XBox, you can have UltimateTV as well!