There were messages in a network that corporation Microsoft develops own television system which will compete with such products as Apple TV and Google TV. The system will be based on new service of a subscription, and the content will be broadcast through popular games console Xbox 360.
According to the anonymous sources familiar with plans of the company, Microsoft now is being at an initial stage of negotiations with some suppliers of a content. It is expected that the monthly payment will undertake viewing of these teleprograms and films, and it will be possible with use of console Xbox 360 to look them .
Besides, there is other variant, at which Microsoft will give a proposition for available cable networks to broadcast the content on Xbox. It is similar how some channels broadcast the content on the Internet. The software giant also will offer possibility of a separate subscription to concrete channels.
It is obvious that Microsoft has an obvious desire to compete with Apple and Google which have presented the new television products this autumn. Nevertheless, as declare the informed sources, this idea has come to the management of Microsoft not now, and was born within last 12 years.
Let's remind that Apple has presented the updated system Apple TV in September of this year. It is concentrated for broadcasting a content from cloudy servers and its price is only 99 dollars. The device possesses the limited disk space and allows to broadcast telecasts of channels Fox and ABC in the high resolution for only 99 cents.
Nevertheless, Apple has more ambitious plans concerning this product. It has made an offer to leading television networks : allowing users to look all programs, having subscribed for 30 dollars a month. However broadcasting companies as is informed, have refused this invention, and Apple has decided to advance idea with hire of telecasts for 99 cents. However and this plan has been rejected with some of the largest television networks, including CBS and NBC.
Google has faced a number of problems too, trying to start working under control of operating system Android. Though some devices with Google TV originally had access to the Internet content broadcasting, many of suppliers have undertaken efforts on blocking of translation of the content on devices Google TV.
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