Mediaroom officially coming to Windows Phone 7 via 'Rome'?

Mediaroom is Microsoft's official IPTV streaming option and it provides a lot of media ability--in fact Mediaroom 2.0 was just announced at CES (opens in new tab) and offers "...whole-home digital video recording, on-demand capabilities, access to both operator-hosted content and Internet TV, and interactive applications.". It's like AT&T's U-verse but better.
Or Google TV but not full of fail.
As Microsoft slowly but steadily continues to merge all of their properties into one (Xbox 360, Mediaroom, Windows Phone 7, Zune, SkyDrive, Office, LIVE services, etc.) it only makes sense that they would be working on a way to take Mediaroom 2.x and integrate on Windows Phone 7 in some official capacity. Indeed, according to Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet, that is what project 'Rome' is all about.
Supposedly Roz Ho, who worked on "Project Pink" aka KIN is involved on the Mediaroom/Rome project which looks to bring all of Microsoft's media capabilities into one offering: Xbox 360, Mediacenter PC, Windows Phone, etc. hence the name 'Rome' as all roads lead to it.
No word on planned release time frame, but we're thinking that second big update aka 'Mango', later this year, may be a good time.
Source: ZDNet; via electronista; Thanks, Enzo, for the tip
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Daniel Rubino is the Editor-in-chief of Windows Central, head reviewer, podcast co-host, and analyst. He has been covering Microsoft since 2007 when this site was called WMExperts (and later Windows Phone Central). His interests include Windows, laptops, next-gen computing, and for some reason, watches. Before all this tech stuff, he worked on a Ph.D. in linguistics, watched people sleep (for medical purposes!), and ran the projectors at movie theaters because it was fun.
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Yes, finally some sign that MS is going to bring all it's tech together on the media side. The PC, TV, phone should all just connect and play media without any hassle, DNLA helps with this, and LGs Play To app on my phone works well, just bring it all onto one platform and have it sync in the background so I can watch on my phone, pause, continue on my TV or PC without having to do any direct connection through USB etc it should all be over Wifi now.
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Is good to see the WP7 becaming more a Microsoft Phone than a Facebook Phone.I'm just waiting an official Windows Live Messenger client now.
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MediaRoom powers Uverse....they'll be upgrading from 1.2 to 2.0