Microsoft UltimateTV Not So Ultimate

from the bye-bye dept

Tue, Jan 22nd 2002 9:10am — Mike Masnick

So, just last week, we were talking about how the Xbox could become the "home station" and I was wondering why no one was talkin at all about UltimateTV. It seemed odd to me that UltimateTV and Xbox remained completely separate. Well, now we know why. Microsoft has decided to shut down the UltimateTV division and assign many of the workers to the Xbox division.

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Hooch, 22 Jan 2002 @ 9:42am

Not a failure
It's funny to see everyone looking at this as a failure, when it's the aggressive and smart move in the set top space. Tivo and Replay are great at ONE function. I would by XBox in a minute if it also had DVR functionality, etc. Don't be surprised if you see a recordable DVD drive on V2 of this machine too. That's far more interesting- and useful than all the crap on Moxi (the over-hyped competitor)
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- Mike (profile), 22 Jan 2002 @ 9:58am
  
  Re: Not a failure
  No, I do think that UltimateTV itself is a failure. They're not merging the divisions. They're shutting UltimateTV down, and just reassigning the people. If UltimateTV was such a huge success, they wouldn't be doing that.
  
  I agree that the combined device isn't just a smart move, it's necessary.
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