Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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Countryboy---Great find! An Entertainment PC that explicitly supports VIIV complemented with a TPM 1.2. What's going on here?

Gee, I wonder if TVTonic is involved in pilots with a few major Content Providers or major OEMs that intend to leverage the TPM with the introduction of VISTA ULTIMATE?

Are there any major players in Entertainment Universe who just might be eager to exploit the TPM for many obvious simple and basic TPM Killer Applications?

AND WHY OH WHY is Michael Sprague going around providing us with such delicious TVTonic morsels? Hasn't he studied this board long enough to learn from the techies that TVTonic will have to wait until 2008 before significant revenues can begin to accrue?

Or could it possbily be the case that Vista Ultimate is going to prove to be the missing link behind the real purpose of TVTonic?

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/index.php?p=2368

Subscriber content on the PC — for consumers or business audiences first?

Had a nice chat with Michael Sprague, president of Wavexpress, about their TVTonic and TechTonic brands.

So just like when you order from your cable TV provider, you could order from the web using the TPM and subscription management approach that Wavexpress is investing in. So, just like I may say, "I want my HBO," and the set-top box gets a signal to open that channel up to me on my TV, I may soon be able to do the equivalent on a PC connected to wide open web. Pay-per-View for the web. Yes. And no iTunes or AdWords.

"Would this model work for consumers and for businesses? Yes."

So how does Microsoft fit in? These TPM chips will ship on consumer PCs (not just business ones) that have Vista. Vista also has within it the newest Windows Media Center. If you combine the Media Center function — linking web content to the home television with a great interface for managing web content as if it were TV Guide on steroids — with the subscriber management capabilities in the TPM chip, well, then you have paid, managed content over the web.