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Xbox To Get Live TV and Massive VOD Update

Posted by Soulskill on from the consoles-are-eating-the-rest-of-my-devices dept.

CNETNate writes "It's a global first for Microsoft, and massive news for Xbox owners. Redmond and the largest pay TV service in the UK — Sky, owned in part by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp — has tied a deal that brings simulcast TV, sports, entertainment shows, pay-per-view movies and back catalogue television to the Xbox 360. It's an entirely streamed service, offering no download-to-own content, and partly rivals the BBC iPlayer, which is available on UK PlayStation consoles and the Nintendo Wii. The service will go live later in the year at no cost to existing subscribers, and screenshots show it fits in seamlessly with the Xbox Live interface."

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  1. RROD Not Included! by longbot · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This seems to me to be a very dumb idea.

    I don't know about others, but I for one avoid services tied to hardware that has a high likelihood of failure.

    Anyone else remember Time Warner Cable's early digital / DVR boxes? The horribly twitchy ones made by Scientific Atlanta? Or Verizon's FiOS routers from hell / shitty set top boxes?

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