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  New Patents Could Propel Microsoft's Digital Media
Time: 04:23 EST/09:23 GMT | News Source: Internet News | Posted By: Joshua Baer

Microsoft has just been awarded two United States patents for a proprietary method of packing a high-definition television signal onto a hard drive, internetnews.com has learned. The development could help propel Microsoft's digital media strategy, whereby the company has, since late 2002, worked to position its Windows Media 9 technology as an industry standard for the delivery of high-definition (1280 x 720) video streams directly to the PC.

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