Microsoft TV Platform?
Posted by Sam Churchill on November 29th, 2010Microsoft is rumored to be launching an Internet TV platform in a year’s time. Reuters says that a Microsoft pay-television subscription service would allow people to view content through multiple Microsoft devices, like the Xbox. Microsoft has already added live-streamed ESPN content to its Xbox Live 2010 update. It would compete withAppleTV and Google TV.
Those hoping for a Microsoft TV reveal during Microsoft’s CES 2011 keynote might have to wait, says PC Magazine. It won’t be out for a year.
In addition to a current agreement with Netflix, Microsoft operates its own built-in movie marketplace that sells downloads and offers streaming video rentals.
Microsoft has reportedly proposed creating a “virtual cable operator” delivered over the Internet for which users pay a monthly fee. Other options include using the Xbox to watch shows with enhanced interactivity or creating content silos and selling more individual channels directly such as an HBO or Showtime. It already has Walt Disney Co’s ESPN on the XBox Live online service.
According to Wikipedia, the Top 5 Cable operators in the United States are:
- Comcast Corporation 23,891,000
- Time Warner Cable, Inc. 13,048,000
- Cox Communications, Inc. 5,316,100
- Charter Communications, Inc. 4,929,900
- Cablevision Systems Corporation 3,093,000
The Top 5 Ad-Supported Cable Networks (Primetime) are:
- USA 3,571,000
- TNT 2,435,000
- Fox News 2,157,000
- Nick at Nite 1,780,000
- TBS 1,592,000
Wikipedia has a list of cable and satellite networks broadcasting or receivable in the United States, organized by genre.
Doug Sylvester, chief strategy office of Avail-TVN, says cable lost somewhere in the neighborhood of 700,000 subscribers last quarter, but about 600,000 of them went to DBS or IPTV.
source: dailywireless.org
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