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In the first of an occasional series, News.com's Ina Fried looks at past announcements and what became of that big deal. First up: a partnership between Redmond and DirecTV announced in January 2006.
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AM and FM radio broadcasters are set to convert to HD, their reply to satellite. Also: Sirius plans with Microsoft to make video channels for backseat passengers & hellip;.  HP jumps on the home-entertainment bandwagon & hellip;. and more.
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I have good news, bad news, and worse news.  The good news is that I managed to get MythTV working well enough that it now plays standard definition channels better than the cable box alone, even though it's getting its signal from the cable output of the cable box.  I get this benefit because MythTV allows me to tweak various parameters that you can't change on the cable box.   The bad news is that high definition channels still look worse through MythTV than they do if I watch then directly from the cable box.  I don't expect to solve this problem. The cable box may be able to handle HDTV itself, but it outputs a digital signal in 480p, which is basically standard definition. The fact that I have two HDTV-capable tuner cards does me little good.  Here's the worse news. I had to learn way too much to get this far.
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Over six months after Comcast set-top boxes utilizing TiVo's software debuted at CES, the cable giant has officially certified the platform for deployment to customers. The companies originally announced a deal to work together in March 2005.
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In a first of its kind pilot, Comcast is set to deploy Microsoft's TV Foundation Edition 1.7 software in conjunction with its new dual-tuner digital video recording service. The partnership heightens Microsoft's involvement with cable operators, which is an element of Redmond's strategy for home entertainment.
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As you may recall from my last entry, I exchanged my cable box from a Scientific Atlanta 8000HD to a Scientific Atlanta 8300HD.  The latter, new box continues to output a signal from the cable connection even if I have it in HDTV mode.  It probably also continues to output AVI and S-Video.  This finally opened up a way for me to use my cable box with a MythTV box.   Thanks to a serious (and mysterious) spinal injury (I say mysterious because I haven't figured out how I did the damage), I can only work on the project for a half hour at a time, at most.  I have discovered some interesting things in those short segments.
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After weeks of speculation and controversy over an apparent deal between Major League Baseball and DirecTV that would limit access to baseball's Extra Innings package to subscribers of the satellite service, the parties announced the deal yesterday in a conference call, though they would not confirm the details of a widely reported seven-year, $700 million pact.
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By David Crow, The Business, London  Dec. 7--The migration of television from box sets to the internet was  predicted ever since the web first got going. Now, after many false starts and  the arrival of mass-market broadband, it has finally begun in earnest.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft is increasing the range of video formats that PCs running its Windows software can pipe to televisions around the home, with support for a new range of Extenders for Windows Media Center devices from hardware manufacturers.
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ACCORDING TO Microsoft represetatives at IDF last week, it&#39;s very likely that the upcoming release of Windows Media Center 2005 will support high defination televison signals.
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Watching "premium content" in Windows Vista requires users to play nice with Microsoft's built-in digital rights controls. In Monkey Bites.
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SBC is teaming up with Microsoft to provide consumers with a new way to view television -- a move that puts it in direct competition with the cable TV industry.
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DirecTV Group Inc. (DTV.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday posted a large quarterly loss as marketing and subscriber retention costs rose sharply, offsetting a 49 percent rise in new subscribers.
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TechCrunch is reporting that voice services and automated directory assistance (DA) provider TellMe, which I&#8217;ve written about several times recently, is being acquired by Microsoft. If that&#8217;s true it would be both strange and a potentially big deal. Why strange? It would be strange because Microsoft already has its own considerable speech processing assets. But it would [...]
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SBC and Microsoft plan to launch an Internet television service in about a year. With IP technology, video, voice, data and other broadband services will be integrated and delivered over a
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LAS VEGAS  - DirecTV Group Inc.  onThursday debuted its first digital video recorder withtechnology from another News Corp.  division, raisingquestions about the strength of its relationship with digitalvideo recording pioneer TiVo.
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REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. and cable television provider Comcast Corp. said Monday they would begin deploying set-top boxes powered by Microsoft software starting next week.