I was reading a bunch of email internally, and I stumbled upon this little video about "What Microsoft TV, IPTV edition" was.
It’s a video advertisement targeted at broadband providers worldwide. They show some really neat features that I’d forgotten about:
- Showing 3 live video windows over an existing video (multipicture in picture)
- Immediate channel changing (unlike satellite and some digital cable providers)
- Digital video recording with a very friendly TV guide interface for multiple TV shows
- On-demand shows & movies with chargeback methodologies ($1.99/episode of Shark)
- Displaying of inbound caller ID, SMS messages, instant messages, email, etc. on the TV screen
- Mini Guide – a small TV guide to allow you to look at what else is on, without interrupting the existing show
- HDTV support, Pay-per-view, and Subscription based content
- Remote programming of your IPTV console over the Internet
- View photos, music, or video from any Windows machine on a home network
- Connect to Zune or other Windows Media capable portable media devices
- On-screen notification about changes in schedule programming (such as American Idol being cancelled)
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