[opendtv] Verizon Selects Microsoft TV as Software Platform for FiOS TV Service

     Verizon Selects Microsoft TV as Software Platform for FiOS TV
     Service
     - Jan 28, 2005 06:19 PM (PR Newswire)

Deployment of Advanced Digital TV Services and Interactive Applications to
                      Consumers to Begin Later This Year


REDMOND, Wash. and NEW YORK, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft
Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Verizon (NYSE:VZ) announced today that Verizon will
use the Microsoft(R) TV platform for the commercial rollout of Verizon's FiOS
TV service, planned for later this year.

The Microsoft TV platform will support high-definition television, digital
video recording and on-demand programming offered by Verizon on the FiOS
platform. In addition, it will provide FiOS TV customers with an interactive
programming guide that is attractive, intuitive and easy to use. Verizon and
its third-party partners will use the Microsoft software to add advanced
applications for future FiOS TV services, differentiating Verizon in the
marketplace and bringing consumers the benefits of voice, video and data
convergence.

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     - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=46511926

 
 
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