Bill Gates: TV to Converge with Gaming
Covering a Bill Gates lecture for GigaOM this afternoon, I took note of this comment: “Today there’s a few million people who are getting their TV through Internet feeds. It’s just a spectrum of content. Many of the things that will be available in TV in terms of watching, talking with your friends…things we see more today in the video game world.”
It seems increasingly likely that Microsoft will announce Netflix integration with Xbox Live during its keynote at the Game Developers Conference tomorrow.
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Wow. Give Gates another “Most Brilliant Statement Predicting the Future Five Years Too Late” Award.
Brian Andrews on February 19th, 2008 at 9:33 pm - Permalink
Was Bill referring to getting television over the open internet or via a closed IPTV (internet television protocol) service such as Verizon’s FIOS? I’d venture to say IPTV, but television over the open internet is growing fast too.
Secondly – what exactly defines television? Does it include watching videos on YouTube and MSNBC? Or is it limited to a live broadcast over the internet that you watch on your PC?
Perhaps it’s time for a new acronym as the PC and TV come together: CV (computer vision).
http://RSSLiveTV.com – a quick and easy way to tune internet television channels
geraldz on February 20th, 2008 at 12:54 pm - Permalink