The Register Rips MS IPTV Strategy

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[Om Malik’s Broadband Blog] Close on the heels of my post from yesterday, The Register investigates and finds more trouble in Microsoft’s IPTV strategy, and puts the blame on its software innards. The Register points out that the cost to telecom operators would be twin fold: the delay in networks, and higher build out costs.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Maxblumberg.typepad.com] Max Blumberg Positioning Game: Microsoft, Google and Internet ...: Welcome to Max Blumberg's Positioning Game - a weblog about business strategy, business news, and strategic market development.

[Maxblumberg.typepad.com] Max Blumberg Positioning Game: News Corporation Strategy: The logical move for Google would be to control the emerging IPTV search space, and indeed Google Video may indeed be its way in. Soon, you will undoubtedly be Googling your television set for your favorite TV content (with a few adverts thrown in for luck). Watch this space.

[Blog.whoisireland.com] WhoisIreland Review » News Bytes: Internetnews.com reports that Microsoft is getting involved in Television over IP. It has come to an agreement with Alcatel to combine Alcatel’s access and integration technologies with Microsoft’s IPTV software. I don’t particularly have any great respect for Microsoft as a software company but this could make the problems that RIAA and MPAA have with p2p downloading insignificant. When it comes to conditional access systems, Microsoft hasn’t clue zero.

[Wireless.sys-con.com] Alcatel + Microsoft = Internet TV Over IP, aka "IPTV," Coming Soon ...: Who is reading your blog anyway? -Start blogging at your favorite magazine's Website and get published in less than three minutes! blog-n-play.com

[Edn.com] SBC snubbing Microsoft? - Brian's Brain - 2005 - Blog on EDN ...: Based on SBC's prominent placement and glitzy demo of its upcoming IPTV service at Bill Gates' January CES keynote (far outshining anything else demo'd there, frankly) I was under the impression that SBC had selected Microsoft's Windows Media Advanced Profile (aka VC-1 in SMPTE terminology) video codec, along with other elements of Microsoft's IPTV ecosystem. But an offhand comment delivered by a presenter at this afternoon's MPEG-4 sessions of the Multimedia World conference at NAB was a bombshell; that SBC had exclusively standardized on the rival MPEG-4 AVC (i.e. MPEG-4 Part 10, or H.264) codec.

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Posted at June 02, 2005 12:45 PM