Hello,
Was hoping to spark up a discussion about optik tv. Also would be great to hear your thoughts as well on the subject.
Firstly, telus launches an ondemand service, and months later microsoft decides to launch there own on demand service through xbox live. Strange move, especially when they are competing products to microsoft's mediaroom clients.
Now recently microsoft secretly is working on a new project that deals with tv in the cloud "named cloud tv?". You can search up on google about that if you want additional info. Seems that resources and new positions in the entertainment business unit of microsoft are being allocated to this new product. It makes you question, if they decide to launch their own cloud tv product that is based on mediaroom, what does that mean for current media room clients like telus, at&t etc. I've also heard rumors from industry members that mediaroom may not receive further code upgrades with features that were promised like OTT capabilities that at&t and telus have been waiting for. Mediaroom 3.0 & 4.0 may not see daylight. Would appear mediaroom may stay at 2.x with updates to keep things going and fixes. Hopefully a telus rep can comment in this.
I think this is a great discussion to start, what are your thoughts as to microsoft's move coming soon in 2013 to cloud tv, and what does that mean for the future of mediaroom deployed at telus and at&t.
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