Microsoft and Thomson Announce IPTV-Ready Set-Top Box

Microsoft and Thomson announced the availability of an IPTV-ready set-top box for the Microsoft TV IPTV platform. The set-top boxes use Windows CE embedded technology, along with an Intel Pentium III processor running at 933 MHZ and the Intel 830M4 graphics chipset. It supports current and next-generation video codecs including MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, Windows Media 9 Series, and MPEG-4 Part 10 AVC (H.264/JVT).



The Thomson IP1001 and the RCA IP1000 set-top boxes are now available for all Microsoft TV IPTV trial customers, including Bell Canada, Reliance Infocomm Ltd., SBC Communications Inc. and Swisscom/Bluewin. Switzerland-based Bluewin is the first customer to conduct a market trial of the Microsoft TV IPTV platform and is deploying the Thomson set-top boxes in the trial. http://www.microsoft.com/tvhttp://www.thomson.net