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Gates’ Viiv Isn’t Working
No Digital Media Adaptor to connect the home
The key feature of Viiv, the DMA that allows listening and watching everything around your home isn’t working yet and won’t be delivered on any of the machines Bill Gates will hype in his CES keynote, Digitimes reports. Intel confines many of the Viiv features will be late in 2006. These new Wintel boxes are just souped up Media Center PC’s, with $300M of Intel advertising along with an enormous Microsoft publicity push. The DMA feature, a fancy transcoder that supports devices from remote televisions to home stereos, isn’t expected until June or later.

The billion dollar-marketing machine is too far advanced to stop. Intel and Microsoft‘s engineers haven‘t yet been able to deliver the “digital home” VP Don McDonald promised saying, “consumers are passionate about the idea of accessing their content anytime, anywhere in their home on a number of devices.” Implementing Microsoft DRM and other software in a form suitable for $50 home players is proving a tough problem. If they fail, prices of the connecting devices will be too expensive.

Viiv’s key defect is the tie to Windows. 99% of non-computer home gadgets run Wind River, Linux, or proprietary CE control systems, and patching them to Microsoft is tough.

Reporters are questioning the instant on, instant off feature, which seems a great improvement on the ridiculous Windows boot-up. Those testing the system report only the lights on the system go off, while the machine stays on all the time burning lots of electricity. 

50 Million TV connected PCs are coming, some incredibly small
Microsoft virtually giving away Media Center Software/PVR
Viiv may be more marketing than product, but Microsoft’s plan to include WMC on fifty million computers may have a powerful impact. If users do connect them to TVs as intended, that will double the number of PVRs and probably quadruple the number of Internet connected televisions.

Dell is offering a complete Media Center PC this week for $499, and most Gateways will also include the software. Expect Microsoft to cut similar deal to include Media Center at almost no extra cost on most consumer computers.

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