iptv?

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i was talking to one of my mates the other day and he mentioned to me that at around the end of this year there will be a new feature on the xbox called iptv. does anyone know if this is actually happpenng and if soo what is it all about.
 
haha, Strange timing, I've literally just finished reading about this. Here's a copy and paste

It's ultimately available to any service provider that offers Microsoft IPTV now or in the future, though. Interestingly, one option service providers may explore in getting customers to buy into the IPTV program is to lease out the 360 like a cable box, or they can follow a cell phone model, where you buy a 360 from the service provider at a subsidized price bundled with IPTV. Or, if you already have a 360, you can download the software and go from there, though this obviously requires a hard drive.

As all of the video decoding is done by software, rather than by a hardware tuner, you will be able to record HD shows (DVR and VOD capabilities are there, in other words, as long as your provider offers them) while playing a game. Moreover, due to the software decoding, the number of streams able to be recorded simultaneously is essentially a matter of bandwidth, so it's theoretically possible to record multiple streams while gaming to boot. The priority now, however, is simply making sure that recording an HD stream while playing a game works flawlessly — the other is extra, so we'll get exact numbers closer to launch.

So where are you going to put all of those shows, as well as the IPTV software itself? Like Michael at Kotaku, I couldn't get a confirmation of the upcoming higher capacity drives, simply that the all 360s are "designed now" to add an HD. Asking about hot swapping drives, supposing a "theoretical" higher capacity one existed, got a reply of "stay tuned." The rep added, however, that the digital compression used will allow HD content to fit in half the space it typically uses on a traditional cable set up and that the IPTV client software itself "isn't very big."
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Unfortunately MS only have content rights for the US, don't expect xbox TV to come to Europe in the next 24 months minimum.
 
Sclodion said:
Unfortunately MS only have content rights for the US, don't expect xbox TV to come to Europe in the next 24 months minimum.
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what he says, and people still **** Sony over the way they treat Europeans :rolleyes:, then there is ISP restrictions on downloads and FUP's, it'll fall flat on its face over here if launched unless ISP's are educated into the fact that the we need more Bandwidth and less restrictions if something like this is to succeed
 
Sclodion said:
Unfortunately MS only have content rights for the US, don't expect xbox TV to come to Europe in the next 24 months minimum.
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Are they not trying to hook up with BT for the IPTV though?? God help us if they 2 get together, but still would be a move in the right direction.
 
JUMPURS said:
Are they not trying to hook up with BT for the IPTV though?? God help us if they 2 get together, but still would be a move in the right direction.
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They already did for BT Vision.
 
BT Vison uses the Microsoft IPTV management service to provide its infrastructure, this is not the same as xbox TV (although in theory a 360 can be used as a portal onto BT Vision if they released software to do so)

The actual BT Vision box is a freeview reciever, DVR and IPTV reciever although BT will be using MPEG4 for VoD downloads rather than Windows Media 9. So the chances of getting xbox support are quite small at present as MS would have to licence and implement an MPEG4 decoder when their agenda is to promote WM9 / VC1.

One of the other key problems is that BT Vision can only be accessed by BT customers, the service will not be offered through other ISPs.
 
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