Xbox To Get Live TV and Massive VOD Update

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday May 28, 2009 @07:20PM 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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Also getting live TV by Anonymous Coward · 2009-05-28 19:26 · Score: 2, Funny

Launching soon, live goatse TV channel, and goatse on "demand".
Re:Wow! by Anonymous Coward · 2009-05-28 19:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Oh, better cancel this then guys. Microsoft? Sky? Hi. Turns out that this isn't necessary. viyh's computer can do it already.
Really? by MadKatAlpha · 2009-05-29 02:42 · Score: 2, Funny

I can't believe that this has not been tagged as skynet yet.