Microsoft's TV challenge
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Microsoft's grand vision for the digital home puts the Windows Media Center PC at the hub. The challenge is proving to broadcasters that Windows can lock down the content once it's on the hard drive.
Today, broadcast content comes into the home through consumer electronics devices that are closed boxes, Jan Hofmeyr, Windows TV group product manager, told Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference.
The company's goal is to sell more software by letting consumers move content to multiple devices around the home, including PCs, laptops and tablets, in different rooms of the house, high-definition digital television sets, premium television receivers and stationary and portable music/video players.