Bill Gates announces the death of (network) TV at CES

January 07th, 2008 | Category: Gadget News

The death of TV, really?  Quite possibly, yes.  Microsoft didn’t say that of course, but whether you put all the pieces announced tonight together, you come to a pretty obvious conclusion rather quickly.  Network TV, at least as we know it, will die.

Here are

the puzzle pieces, see whether you come to the same conclusion I did:

IPTV

At tonight’s CES 2008 Keynote, Microsoft made a big announcement:  they’ve got 1 million set top boxes for its Mediaroom.  that is 6 months ahead of schedule for Microsoft.  They’ve done that pretty quietly now, but at that rate they are adding 2 IPTV subscribers every […]

Orginal post by Evan Blass

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