{"id":18,"date":"2008-02-21T09:08:18","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T09:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/21\/iptv\/"},"modified":"2008-02-21T10:39:11","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T10:39:11","slug":"iptv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/21\/iptv\/","title":{"rendered":"IPTV"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve just been catching up on a few days worth of Tweets and Blog posts.\u00a0 One of the articles I’ve been reading was a piece on c|net<\/a> about the MS Mediaroom IPTV solution.\u00a0\u00a0 It sounds like there are 1 million or so people on the system now which is great.\u00a0 My guess is a fair chunk of those are from BT here in the UK through their BT Vision product.\u00a0 The article talks about how IPTV will merge into Media Center, and find it’s way into homes through that route, but to be honest I think they’ve missed a huge piece of the story.\u00a0 Xbox.<\/p>\n

The announcement<\/a> last month of MS IPTV integration into the Xbox 360 gives the platform 10 million potential users in one go.\u00a0 At an Architecture Forum seminar on Tuesday it was mentioned that roughly 75% (IIRC) of Xbox’s are online using Xbox Live.\u00a0 So that could be 7.5 million IPTV consumers.\u00a0 Not a bad number really.\u00a0 To my mind the key will be how well the services are integrated into the Xbox console, and how the services are provided and billed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

From what I’ve read it sounds like the new Xbox IPTV services are being launched though the existing telecoms partners, BT in the UK, AT&T in the states etc.\u00a0 From what I understand, in the UK at least it’ll only be available to BT broadband customers.\u00a0 If it was me, once I knew it was all working I’d try to open this up wider.\u00a0 Give it free to BT broadband customers (god knows we need something to chear us up…) but charge a small subscription for everyone else.\u00a0 Use the MS Points model for billing so you can order it straight through the XBox console.\u00a0 Easy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Of course there there would be problems around bandwidth etc.\u00a0 Here you need at least 2MB\/s to even get the BT Vision installed… but those are problems that will ease with time)<\/p>\n

Bundling content and features into games consoles is a great way of making technology mainstream.\u00a0 It worked for Sony and Blueray, why not for IPTV?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve just been catching up on a few days worth of Tweets and Blog posts.\u00a0 One of the articles I’ve been reading was a piece on c|net about the MS Mediaroom IPTV solution.\u00a0\u00a0 It sounds like there are 1 million or so people on the system now which is great.\u00a0 My guess is a fair … <\/p>\n

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