Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[Wavestation]

lugan "I believe one person said that BT (British Telecom?) had recently embraced TCG standards"

I could not find a direct link to BT and the TCG but please see the link below.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/speeches/2007/01-07CES.mspx

ROBBIE BACH: Well, that just gives you a sense for how video is easy to get to Xbox 360, and we have had tremendous response to that from our Live customers.
Now, the final area where we can bring high-definition to our platform is what we call IPTV. Now, two years ago we demoed IPTV at this show, and really gave one of the early first looks at what IPTV could deliver.
Today, we are now in market with five providers: AT&T, British Telecom, Deutsche Telecom, C-Com in France, and Swisscom. We are doing great work with those companies to roll this out to consumers, and we're also working with 11 other customers and a number of others who are in trial or evaluation.
This market is going to continue to grow, and over the next three or four years is going to become a major part of the TV delivery ecosystem.

Now, the thing I want to point out is that IPTV on Xbox 360 allows our service providers to really differentiate their TV experience, because now on one box not only can you get an amazing TV experience through IPTV, but you do get all that great gaming experience that is Xbox 360.
This will be available through service providers this year, holiday 2007, that experience available to consumers.

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Question to the board:

So are TPM's/Wave/Wavexpress/TVTonic in any way associated with Microsoft IPTV or can benefit from it?

I guess what is confusing me are the number of methods of delivery, especially after reading this blog below and all this talk of consumer 2008-2009 when we already have TVTonic with Media Center plus all the great DD Barge and others have provided on consumer adoption that would appear to occur sooner.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/microsoft/

The keynote did make the interesting point that Microsoft will have four different ways to watch HD TV: using an HD DVD add-on to the Xbox 360; playing HD movies on a PC, and optionally streaming them to the TV via an Xbox 360; by downloading HD movies from Xbox Live; and via IPTV.

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If someone can provide clarity it would be appreciated.