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January 09, 2007
Can We Still call this the Digital Decade.
Bill Gates and company kicked off CES with their announcments about a wide variety of gaming capabilities in Vista, Media Server, Xbox and Zune.
...But, of course, Games for Windows, while it is our leading and largest gaming platform, it's not the only gaming platform Microsoft has. Our second is Xbox 360. And I'm very excited about the progress we've made to become the leader in this next generation of gaming. ...
The announcement about Xbox 360 becoming an IPTV interface caught quite a few eyes.
...when you network that PC with your Xbox 360 for high-definition TV, you can get all the experiences you want: music, movies, cable TV, high-definition content, from Media Center streamed to Xbox. We call it Media Center Extender on Xbox 360, and it's a very popular product. We're continuing to see that. It comes with Xbox built-in, and we continue to see that expand and roll out. You don't need an extra box, just connect it up and go....
So as the service providers bundle charges for services Xbox bundles services for the same price?
....We have sold through December 31st 10.4 million consoles across 37 countries around the world. That's a half a million units a head of our projection. (Cheers and applause.) In some ways the data that's more interesting is when we do the survey data, the majority of those owners of Xbox 360 are new to the Xbox platform. That tells you how we are expanding the market, that tells you how we're growing, and how we're becoming a leader. And when you look at games, and the attach rate of games, the number of games sold per console, and the number of peripherals sold per console, we are setting records on Xbox 360 every step along the way for a console at this stage in its lifecycle. So this ecosystem is alive, burgeoning and growing, and really setting the pace for what's going to happen in the future.
So the network now has a quintuple play.
Microsoft’s IPTV Edition can be a revenue source for cable providers and telecommunications companies. New digital TV services could include be developed by the service providers. Service providers that are committed to deploying this service include att in the U.S., BT Group PLC in the U.K., Deutsche Telekom in Germany and France, and Swisscom in Switzerland.
Posted by carl at January 9, 2007 10:50 PM