Xbox 360 To Have IPTV, 10 Million Sold

The news from CES, from Bill Gates' keynote, is that the 360 will have IPTV rolled out in an update later this year. They've also now crossed the 10 Million units sold mark, spurred on by Gears of War in the U.S. and Blue Dragon in Japan. The implications of IPTV for the 360 (DVR on a 20 gig HD, essentially) are interesting, but are hardly the only news to come out of the event. Robbie Bach gave Gamespot an overview of Vista and 360-related announcements for the near future, and there's some great stuff in there. Likewise, Mr. Gates sat down for an interview with several journalists, including Dean Takahashi from the Mercury News and Brian Crecente from Kotaku. He gives some additional insight into the company's announcements at the CES event.

Comments

20GB?

[Nezzari]

With the announcement of DVR, a larger Hard Drive is practically confirmed. Microsoft has been on a roll lately as far as the Xbox 360 is concerned, I doubt they would forget something like that. They are probably waiting until the last moment to announce it to prevent a drop in sales.

Re:US Only?

[LWATCDR]

That is really odd. Since the US an Canada are so close in law I am surprised that they have these issues.

Of course before the free trade laws I had one of the dumbest discussion in my life with a Canadian official.

The government of Canada uses a piece of software I work on. Back before the Internet we used to ship them updates in the mail. Well one of the disks got stopped because of taxes!
The tax official wanted to know what the value of the disks was so they could charge the customer tax on the import.
Well the update was free but that wasn't good enough for them. I then asked them why they needed to charge the customer tax since the customer was the government of Canada! I mean they would be billing themselves... I never got the answer and they sent the disk back. That day we set up a BBS so they could download the updates from that day forward.

You got to love governments