The Engadget – Bill Gates Interview, Part 2
The Engadget Interview: Bill Gates, Part 2 – Engadget – www.engadget.com / Bill Gates on cable supported HDTV and CableCARD in Media Center: ” Oh, well get support for CableCARD into Media Center. Thats the whole idea of enabling different end devices to connect to the cable network. I mean there are a lot of efforts to enable that to happen. Were working hard with the cable industry right now to get through the specific qualifications there. But thats a very necessary thing and its nice that the framework guarantees that end devices can get connected up on an objective basis. So were off doing that. In fact, we have good relationships with the cable industry that are hopefully helping us get that done faster.”
and
“Media Center, Tablet PC will all be integrated into Longhorn, correct?
Thats right. They will ship. Well have different SKUs but all those things there will be a major release that will ship with the client and so thats the big update for those things.”
I love it when he uses the words CableCARD and faster in the same breath. It would also be nice to hear about a strategy for Media Center in working with HDTV signals from DirecTV and satellite as well.
