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Coca-Cola on 10 January 2009
Mummelmann said:
Bboid said:
mrstickball said:
No. But I wouldn't be suprised if Microsoft partnered up with LG or Samsung (most likely Samsung) for a TV with IE inside of it.

 

That is probably the least likely choice.  Samsung has too many partnerships and agreements with Sony, most prominantly in the field of LCD TV production.  Frankly I think MS has entirely missed the boat on this one.

 

Yeah, it seems more likely that they'd partner with a European manufacturer or perhaps Pioneer (or LG as mentioned). Pioneer needs to shift more focus onto LCD's than they do, though, plasma screens have a less than bright immediate future.

Samsung made a huge mistake partnering with Sony - I thought that was weird.

 



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Seraphic_Sixaxis on 10 January 2009

I would lol, and stay far away from it.



Bboid on 10 January 2009
Coca-Cola said:
Mummelmann said:
Bboid said:
mrstickball said:
No. But I wouldn't be suprised if Microsoft partnered up with LG or Samsung (most likely Samsung) for a TV with IE inside of it.

 

That is probably the least likely choice.  Samsung has too many partnerships and agreements with Sony, most prominantly in the field of LCD TV production.  Frankly I think MS has entirely missed the boat on this one.

 

Yeah, it seems more likely that they'd partner with a European manufacturer or perhaps Pioneer (or LG as mentioned). Pioneer needs to shift more focus onto LCD's than they do, though, plasma screens have a less than bright immediate future.

Samsung made a huge mistake partnering with Sony - I thought that was weird.

 

 

That really doesn't make any sense at all with respect to their LCD partnership.



sinha on 11 January 2009
HappySqurriel said:

No one knows the exact reason why Microsoft entered into the home console market, but if you look at what Sony was claiming the PS2 would be in 1998 it could have been thought to be a major threat to the home PC market had they been successful ... Many of the features of the PS2 were dropped and it became the more focused gaming console we remember, but it is possible that Microsoft still saw an eventual risk from the market.

 

 

 

I don't think they necessarily saw consoles as a thread to the home PC market, they just wanted to have the same massive presence in the living room and Sony was the competition. 

They chose a version focused on gaming over the other alternative, which was based on WebTV (with browser, email, maybe TV DVR).  Ironically, a lot of those other features will probably end up in a future Xbox, it's already starting to happen with NXE.

Also, there's no way Microsoft actually starts making their own HDTVs.

 



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