Consumer Electronics Show 2005: Keynote with Bill Gates & Conan O'Brien
by Anand Lal Shimpi on January 6, 2005 4:46 AM EST- Posted in
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Microsoft Teams up with TiVo
One last tidbit of information from the keynote was that Microsoft announced support for TiVo series 2 boxes. Tivo Series 2 owners will finally get the ability to transfer their recorded shows to any Windows XP/MCE PC or Portable Media Center device. The partnership is quite unexpected as Microsoft's Media Center Edition is a direct competitor to TiVo, but it makes a lot of sense. The parntership increases the value of Microsoft's offerings (enabling functionality that wasn't there before) while leveraging the hard earned success of TiVo.
Microsoft's TiVo announcement pretty much summed up the take-away from the keynote, a lot of interesting things are happening, but they are all quite strategic. In all of Microsoft's various announcements they weren't trying to force MCE PCs down anyone's throat, they were simply leveraging the strengths of other CE devices and tying their functionality in some way, shape or form to the PC - a Windows XP based PC of course.
It seems that Microsoft's vision of the future doesn't have a Media Center PC driving every TV in the home, rather it has every TV and other CE device in the home offering additional functionality or support to that Media Center PC. Quite interesting...
As usual we'll be here all week covering the show so stay tuned for up to date coverage from the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show here in Las Vegas.
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Griswold - Saturday, January 8, 2005 - link
Friends? The TV show or... err..uhm.. real.. friends?bupkus - Friday, January 7, 2005 - link
#12 - Thank you. I was beginning to think there must be something wrong with me. Down with Friends! Game on!stephenbrooks - Friday, January 7, 2005 - link
If I was being vindictive I would say he's trying to take the emphasis off all the delays on his software...I have to agree with #11 on TV - surely gaming has to be where it's at right now. At least you have to engage your brain (slightly) for that.
HardwareD00d - Friday, January 7, 2005 - link
The more Bill Gates tries to get involved in Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, and Gadgets, the more I feel like I want to avoid them like the plague.Why do we need all this fancy stuff? There isn't much on TV these days worth watching, let alone recording. Just what I need, pip x 2 so I can watch 4 crappy shows at the same time. People are becomming way too dependant on TV to entertain themselves.
Anand Lal Shimpi - Friday, January 7, 2005 - link
PhiroForza Motorsports
Take care,
Anand
Phiro - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
Anand: what was the name of the game they demoed? My brother-in-law is working on an xbox 2 title and I would love to know if it was his game ;)mldeveloper - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
anyone know where a video of this keynote speech can be found?dderidex - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
Sooo....going to check out Shuttle's booth? Dying to see some pics of their new XPCs!skunkbuster - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
conan was hillarious. but bill was almost completely devoid of a sense of humor.AlexWade - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
I wish Conan would go back to work for the Simpsons. Although the show is still better than 99.99% of the junk on TV, it has lost some of its magic.