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MS Plans To Cooperate With Chinese TV Maker
zhangyong writes "Microsoft has signed a strategic cooperation pact with China's top television maker Sichuan Changhong Electric Appliances (which claims to be the world's number-two maker of colour TVs, OEM for APEX, etc.), the official Shanghai Securities News (in Chinese) (in English) said on Monday.
'Changhong would receive advanced IT technology and software from Microsoft to develop digital TV sets and other high-technology products.'
What will happen when low-cost labor in China is combined with Microsoft technologies?"
Let me guess
Oh..oh I KNOW! Pick me.. PICK ME!!!
Would it have anything to do with Government sponsored DRM so the CCP can control all that you see, hear and download at a more manageable level?
Life is not for the lazy.
Symantec and McAffee stock go orbital?
Hate me!
Are you trying to be offensive? Turning his name into a verb, fucking kiddies....
Massive quantities of hardware-based DRM, of severely crappy quality, which breaks in a couple of days. But at least it's going to be cheap.
I can assure you, the best way to get rid of dragons is to have one of your own.
Does there have to be a damn blue screen of death joke in every microsoft article? It was funny 2 years ago when people actually got them. Pull your head out of your ass or at least get a sense of humor that people in this century can relate to. Actually, the rating system of slashdot should have modded that down below my browsing level but someone decided to waste a whole mod point on thinking that was funny.
Umm, where do you think most PCs are made? The moon? Zimbabwe? Folks, this is the world we live in.
I predict:
* People will keep buying microsoft products because they like the products.
* Slashdotters will continue to rant about the evils of microsoft (or whatever company happens to be doing well at the time)
* Linux will continue being a useful and robust platform that's too complex for the average consumer and incompatible with popular applications.
How about rather than joining 3 million other slashdotters in bitching about the rich guy down the street you actually contribute. If you think you can do better, than help an open source project. All of the programs you listed have an open source counterpart that in ways don't measure up to microsoft's "crap clones" as of yet. I'd rather you use your talent to help or at least donate to open office. Spreading FUD about microsoft's programs isn't going to help shit.
It seems Microsoft is performing an end-run around the free market again.
Not so very long ago, during the dawn of the x86 PC, machines were sold without operating systems. You had to buy your own copy. You were likely to ask friends or consult magazine reviews as to which OS was the best buy. As such, there was a possibility that you would buy, for example, CP/M-86 or Concurrent CP/M and not MS-DOS. In fact, there was a very good chance you wouldn't buy MS-DOS, because it was junk, and everyone knew it.
Bill Gates knew it, too. He knew he couldn't win a fair fight on the retail shelf. So he did the same thing he'd done with BASIC: He took the choice out of the consumers' hands and made deals with PC manufacturers to bundle MS-DOS with the machine. Today, as a direct result of such deals, Microsoft is an oppressive illegal monopoly, and industry innovation has been provably stunted.
It seems Microsoft intends to repeat the process, this time with in-TV software, in a country not yet familiar with their felonious behavior.
Watch this carefully. Microsoft has proved repeatedly that they don't give a damn about the end-user, because that's not their customer -- the OEM is, and Microsoft has shown that they can bend OEMs over at will without repercussions. Personally, I don't think this bodes well at all for the future of TV receivers.
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
Make it expensive and cumbersome to watch TV and we will all be better off in the long run
Only fools watch something where content and schedule is dictated by commercial interestes that do not have your welfare at heart.
Help fight continental drift.
the next generation of movie houses will use video projection and the WMV file format
This doesn't really matter, IMO. Movie theatres are already so expensive that I end up going only once per year, and, then, I'm still dissapointed (people kicking my seat, looking through big hair, $5 popcorn, and all the other reasons why watching movies at home is 1000% better--and cheaper--than going to a theatre). If next-generation video discs go to WMA, then I'll most likely just stop watching new movies altogether (at least there's 50+ years of good movies already made).
-- "Makes Little Debbie look like a pile of puke!" - Moe Szyslak
Only we're not too sure who the elephant is here.
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J