User:Ultra0/Microsoft TV

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Microsoft TV was a software platform based on WebTV technology with a focus on interactive TV. It offered services such as digital video recording, electronic program guides, internet on TV, and interactive programming.

Licensing

Companies were able to obtain a license to use the platform in their own products. It's unknown how many of them were given out. Examples include TV Cabo (from Portugal), Cablevision Mexico and supposedly Thomson ("TAK").

Technical

The platform ran on the Windows CE kernel, and utilizes CompressFS in a file named "BrowserData.image". The architecture it ran in is unknown, but is suspected to be x86.

Protocol

Microsoft TV's protocol, to our knowledge, is more or less the same as WTVP with a few additions to allow Microsoft TV-specific functionality. The Simulator is able to connect to minisrv servers just fine.

Configuration.xml

Inside the CompressFS in the "Configuration" directory, a "Configuration.xml" file is present. It would presumably be used by the the company who's using the platform to configure information about the service (such as its IPs, name and phone numbers) and settings in the box itself (whether it should use One World or not, what URL should the box use when powered on and in other cases, user agent, app version, etc).

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