MTV AND MICROSOFT TO INVADE IPOD TERRITORY

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	HIGH DEFINITION MOVIES COMING TO THE INTERNET Oct 14 2004
	Online movie provider CinemaNow said Wednesday that it will begin making high-definition movies available for (more)
	TV AND PC MOVE CLOSER Oct 6 2004
	Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a $200 device, the MSN TV 2, that will permit consumers (more)

MTV AND MICROSOFT TO INVADE IPOD TERRITORY
Tuesday, May 16 2006

Viacom's MTV and Microsoft are joining up to challenge Apple's dominance in digital music downloading with a new service called Urge, set to go online Wednesday with more than two million music tracks. Individual tracks will cost 99 cents, the same price charged by Apple's iTunes Music Store. A monthly subscription will cost $9.95 if a user wants to stream the music on his computer or $14.95 per month to download it onto a portable player. (It will not work with an iPod.) MTV Networks President Van Toffler observed in an interview with today's (Tuesday) New York Times that only 5 percent of music is currently sold as digital downloads (the rest, as traditional CDs). "We are just getting going," he remarked.

GATES AND JOBS TO FACE-OFF OVER ONLINE MUSIC
Wednesday, December 14 2005

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs appeared to be heading towards a new showdown as Gates's Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday that it will join up with MTV Networks to launch a new online music service next year that will compete directly against Apple's iTunes Music Store. The announcement brought to mind the original battle between Jobs, a co-founder of Apple Computer, and Gates in the mid-1980s, when Microsoft took the lead in providing graphical computer systems (more)

TV VIEWERS TO RECEIVE MOVIES OVER THE INTERNET WITHOUT A P.C.
Thursday, January 6 2005
Microsoft is partnering with movie download service CinemaNow to pipe movies to the TV sets of consumers over the Internet without a computer. The service, which employs a settop box and a wireless keyboard, is due to debut this spring with 2,000 titles, rising to 5,000 by summer, according to published reports. The service, which will require an initial outlay of $200 for the converter box, is expected to be offered for a monthly subscription (more)