IPTV on the 360

[Del Lardo]

http://on10.net/Blogs/tina/you-heard-it-people-carbon-is-real/

Very interesting development for the 360. You'll still need a service provider in order to get the content (think Sky or NTL but with the content coming in over a high speed broadband connection) but it's a damn fine interface and will hopefully give IPTV a bit of a kickstart in the UK.

 

[Sclodion]

apart from the fact that as with the download service. its not announced for Europe.

 

[Smit]

apart from the fact that as with the download service. its not announced for Europe.

BT are doing some trials/testing the xbox360 IPTV feature

 

[Goatboy]

BT are doing some trials/testing the xbox360 IPTV feature

I'm sure that will work great with their usage caps.

 

[pinkaardvark]

BT are doing some trials/testing the xbox360 IPTV feature

I'm surprised as it would conflict with their new Vision service which is free to BT ISP users.

 

[Sclodion]

I'm surprised as it would conflict with their new Vision service which is free to BT ISP users.

Well I suppose the logical move would be to make vison available through the Xbox UI. I just don't see this as workable though as every Telco will support subtley different software setups even on the MS IPTV platform which would mean Xbox360 software updates would become specific to suit your IPTV service.

 

[Davyb]

BT Vision software for IPTV was actually written by MS, so maybee they are doing to same for the xbox 360