Skype video calling is coming for Comcast cable television subscribers, the two companies said Monday.
With the new Comcast service, people who subscribe to Comcast's high-definition video service will be able to make video calls on Skype through their television. It will require some new equipment: an adaptor box, a video camera and a special remote control that has a keyboard for people to type text on.
Microsoft has proposed buying Internet phone service Skype, based in Luxembourg,for $8 billion. With the new Comcast-Skype partnership, Microsoft would gain another entryway into television and delivering software into people's living rooms via cloud computing. Currently, Microsoft's most succesful product for television is its Xbox 360 video game console.
"By combining Comcast?s broad living room reach with Skype?s innovative communications platform and worldwide community of users, we can bring video calling into the heart of the home allowing people to share life?s experiences both big and small," Skype Chief Executive Tony Bates said in a statement.
Bates is expected to become president of a Skype division at Microsoft.
Comcast, which is based in Philadelphia, will begin testing the service in the next few months. The companies did not say when the service will become available for subscribers or how much the Skype service will cost.
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