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Shared on Sun, 01/06/2008 - 21:40ROBBIE BACH's Division (Entertainment)
XBOX
17.7 bil units
3.2 billion in sales since Nov, 1B more than Nintendo
past 10 million members mark
ABC and Disney will be brining current hit TV shows to Video Marketplace
MGM is bringing it's library of films to Video Marketplace
More than twice as many hours of HD content than any cable/satellite competitor
MEDIA
Samsung and HP will be introducing Extenders to extend media center content to TVs
Currently 1 million screens tied into Mediaroom technology
DVR anywhere announced for MediaRoom to broadcast DVR shows to any TV on the home network
British Telecom is first to tie Xbox360 to the MediaRoom service
ZUNE
Zune coming to Canada this spring
Zune Social beta has 1.5 million users so far
Zune Card in Social tracks your music, favorite artists etc, you pick a ZuneTag and an avatar very similar to your xbox GamerCard
Zune Social has friends list and you can see the same information for them
Jump right to Zune Marketplace off someone's card and buy music you discovered from your friends card
Ford has partnership with Microsoft to produce the Sync which is a voice activated bluetooth enabled car computer. It'll download your contacts from a bluetooth smart phone and stream the music from your Zune or iPod all with voice command.
MOBILE
Phones outsell computers 4 to 1 and Windows Mobile is the leader in the smartphone space
20 million windows mobile phones will be sold this year
TellMe announced, it does GPS searches with the search criteria entered via voice. Example brings up theaters in the area and tickets were ordered in realtime with voice.
FUTURE
demoing recognition software which could use a smartphone's digital camera, you point it at something and the software references an online database bringing up movie times, appointments in that area, maybe a contact of yours is in that building or at that event.
NO NEW XBOX 360 ANNOUNCED rumors squashed
XBOX
17.7 bil units
3.2 billion in sales since Nov, 1B more than Nintendo
past 10 million members mark
ABC and Disney will be brining current hit TV shows to Video Marketplace
MGM is bringing it's library of films to Video Marketplace
More than twice as many hours of HD content than any cable/satellite competitor
MEDIA
Samsung and HP will be introducing Extenders to extend media center content to TVs
Currently 1 million screens tied into Mediaroom technology
DVR anywhere announced for MediaRoom to broadcast DVR shows to any TV on the home network
British Telecom is first to tie Xbox360 to the MediaRoom service
ZUNE
Zune coming to Canada this spring
Zune Social beta has 1.5 million users so far
Zune Card in Social tracks your music, favorite artists etc, you pick a ZuneTag and an avatar very similar to your xbox GamerCard
Zune Social has friends list and you can see the same information for them
Jump right to Zune Marketplace off someone's card and buy music you discovered from your friends card
Ford has partnership with Microsoft to produce the Sync which is a voice activated bluetooth enabled car computer. It'll download your contacts from a bluetooth smart phone and stream the music from your Zune or iPod all with voice command.
MOBILE
Phones outsell computers 4 to 1 and Windows Mobile is the leader in the smartphone space
20 million windows mobile phones will be sold this year
TellMe announced, it does GPS searches with the search criteria entered via voice. Example brings up theaters in the area and tickets were ordered in realtime with voice.
FUTURE
demoing recognition software which could use a smartphone's digital camera, you point it at something and the software references an online database bringing up movie times, appointments in that area, maybe a contact of yours is in that building or at that event.
NO NEW XBOX 360 ANNOUNCED rumors squashed
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