CES: DirecTV and Microsoft MCE

[Earl Bonovich]

Per DaveZatz at TCF

Bill Gates announced and agreement between DirecTV and Microsoft, to allow communication between the DirecTV products and Windows MCE

TCF Link:
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3644326&&#post3644326

Link to webcast (not available yet 11PST posting time, and no text transalation yet)
http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx


I do hope this one is as Dave is reporting it to be...

[Earl Bonovich]

Here is the CNet story on the announcement

Here is the story on the Gates announcment from CNet
http://news.com.com/Gates+shows+off+Vista+in+CES+keynote/2100-1041_3-6018529.html?tag=nl

[TheRatPatrol]

It would be great if they brought Ultimate TV back. :D

[Chaos]

For all intents and purposes, they just did. This time though, it should be able to do high-def and be fully customizable (storage, etc) since Intel's making a D* card for MCE computers.

[DannyStraessle]

For all intents and purposes, they just did. This time though, it should be able to do high-def and be fully customizable (storage, etc) since Intel's making a D* card for MCE computers.

Any idea on whether or not these cards will require the MCE computer to have a phone connection or will those duties be handled over the Internet. I don't think the MCE computes are shipping with modems.

[Earl Bonovich]

Any idea on whether or not these cards will require the MCE computer to have a phone connection or will those duties be handled over the Internet. I don't think the MCE computes are shipping with modems.

I don't think we will know that for a while...

BUT... I highly doubt it, as I would hope by then DirecTV would have somethign setup that it can do a webservice type call to authorize PPV