[jon_ellacott]

Just received my new Sky Magazine for October and see that we are receiving the Sky Player in October, so I am presuming that this means the new update with Facebook/ twitter will also arrive with it. According to the magazine the Sky Player will be available to all XBox live Gold Members BUT for the premium content you will need a Sky subscription with the packages you need to receive Sports and Movies. It will include the aspects that are also on the PC version, like Live TV and downloadable movies and content straight to your Xbox. There is a link, but this is not presently working yet so give it til next week to have a look, which is as follows www.sky.com/xbox360. As said on the E3 interviews that have been on Xbox live you'll be able to watch the movies and sports with your friends via the party mode.
Looking forward to this now, but it doesn't give a date to when this is happening.

[mred2000]

So what content will be available to none Sky subscribers? Sorry if this has been mentioned elsewhere but I've not seen a decent explanation yet...

[withnailuk]

Originally Posted by mred2000

So what content will be available to none Sky subscribers? Sorry if this has been mentioned elsewhere but I've not seen a decent explanation yet...

I would think not a lot

[mred2000]

Originally Posted by withnailuk

I would think not a lot

Yeah, that's what I'm currently thinking... in which case even the BBC iPlayer would've been more useful!

[jon_ellacott]

Well apart from the Movies and Sports, which are premium content, it offers Sky 1, BBC, Eden, Gold, Nick, Nick Jr, Disney Channel, National Geographic, Sky News and Sky Sports News and a few others on Live TV, while downloadable content comes from ESPN Classic, Sky 1 and loads more....... The thing is I don't know if this is going to be an entirely free application as Sky Player on the PC asks you to buy content, like series from Sky 1, like House for instance, so everything is very sketchy, but with regards to Sky Sports and Sky Movies it's clear that these are only available to those Sky Subscribers with these packages,

[jon_ellacott]

Originally Posted by mred2000

Yeah, that's what I'm currently thinking... in which case even the BBC iPlayer would've been more useful!

BBC iPlayer is on Sky Player

[mred2000]

Originally Posted by jon_ellacott

BBC iPlayer is on Sky Player

Are you saying that BBC iPlayer will be available on the 360 through the Sky Player?

Originally Posted by jon_ellacott

Sky 1, BBC, Eden, Gold, Nick, Nick Jr, Disney Channel, National Geographic, Sky News and Sky Sports News and a few others on Live TV

I'd be very surprised if Sky 1 was available without subs... I'd expect Sky 3 for free, though...

[jon_ellacott]

Originally Posted by mred2000

Are you saying that BBC iPlayer will be available on the 360 through the Sky Player?



I'd be very surprised if Sky 1 was available without subs... I'd expect Sky 3 for free, though...

Yes BBC iPlayer is available through SkyPlayer, it always has been on the PC version. Whether it will be the same on Xbox 360 I am not sure, we'll soon find out.

Just to add this sounds like this is in line with Sky Player on the PC via Sky's website and Sky 1, Sky 2 and Sky 3 isn't available on there. Only the above channels are available at present, only downlaodable content is available for Sky's 3 entertainment channels. Sorry for being rather misleading saying Sky 1 is available on Sky Player.

[grabbi]

Its only for subscribers. You have to have Multiroom or something, which is crap.

Now Ill have to put up with Sky logos plastered all over my Xbox promoting shit I cant even watch.

[jon_ellacott]

Originally Posted by grabbi

Its only for subscribers. You have to have Multiroom or something, which is crap.

Now Ill have to put up with Sky logos plastered all over my Xbox promoting shit I cant even watch.

From what is being said, apart from the premium content, it's free to those with an Xbox Live Subscription. Only the PC version requires multiroom. I don't know as that is what I have gathered from the E3 announcements. Still we'll find out come October. You can register for it via the link at the top on my first post, when Sky decide to put it up on their site!!

[gary77]

The link for more information is www.skyplayer.com/xbox360,thats the one in the Sky Mag page 17 incase you wanna read it yourself

[mred2000]

interesting that there's been nothing more on xbox.com since May 29th... all the details are so sketchy still! I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't turn up until Halloween!

[Red Arrow]

From the information we got last time we learned that to watch the live TV aspect of this service you would need a multiroom subscription. As for the VOD, I would hopefully assume it's free to Sky customers and chargeable to non-customers.

I've never used the Sky Player before, does it charge for all content even if your a full subscriber?

[mred2000]

Originally Posted by Red Arrow

From the information we got last time we learned that to watch the live TV aspect of this service you would need a multiroom subscription. As for the VOD, I would hopefully assume it's free to Sky customers and chargeable to non-customers.

I've never used the Sky Player before, does it charge for all content even if your a full subscriber?

Blimey, sounding better all the time....

[lareid]

Originally Posted by Red Arrow

From the information we got last time we learned that to watch the live TV aspect of this service you would need a multiroom subscription. As for the VOD, I would hopefully assume it's free to Sky customers and chargeable to non-customers.

I've never used the Sky Player before, does it charge for all content even if your a full subscriber?

No, on the Sky Player on the pc, we get 22 live channels depending on which channels you actually subscribe to and we get free content from Sky 1 etc as long as you subscribe to the channel, it's usually only free for a limited time but I'm not sure how long exactly, after that it's either removed or changes so that you have to pay to rent or buy it.

I can't be sure so this is just a guess but I imagine the reason shows like House and 24 etc move to rent or buy is down to rights, there is the full back catalogue of 24 available to rent or buy on Sky Player at the moment and if they made this free, nobody that has broadband and subscribes to sky 1 would bother buying the boxset.

The prices for episodes of Sky 1 shows like House & 24 are £1.47 to rent & £1.96 to buy, even for the older episodes, to be honest I can understand maybe paying to see the latest episode if you missed it but I can't imagine who would pay to buy a whole season, it's more expensive than the boxset.

There is a large collection of movies which again are free to those that subscribe to the channels, as far as I am aware these are always free to subscribers for as long as they are on Sky Player.

There is also Sky Box Office which gives people the chance to rent a movie a couple of months before it moves to the Sky Movies subscribtion pack, movies on Sky box office cost £3.43 per movie for subscribers and non subscribers.

For anyone interested, here are the movies that you can view for free, as long as you subscribe to Sky Movies in your sky package.

http://skyplayer.sky.com/vod/content...t/promoPage.do

The Sky 1 content is a bit low at the moment as the american tv shows that Sky 1 show like Bones and The Simpsons etc are only just starting back in the US and even in the UK summer tv is a bit bare.

Also, BBC iPlayer is not available through Sky Player (on mine anyway) it just provides direct links to the BBC shows available on iPlayer and when you click them, they open the BBC iPlayer site in a new window, I doubt this will be available on the 360.

[gavo360]

you dont have to be a sky customer to use sky player live. non sky customers can watch sky player live channels online but its monthly subscription.
£15 pm you get these channels live.
* G.O.L.D.
* ESPN Classic
* Cartoon Network
* Sky Real Lives
* Sky News
* Boomerang
* MTV ONE
* National Geographic
* Nickelodeon
* Sky Sports News
* Nat Geo Wild
* Disney Channel
* British Eurosport
* Eden
* Nick Jr.
£34 pm if you want sky sports 1,2,3,xtra
£41 pm for sports and movies 1,2

[CarlosVela]

It's a good feature but ultimately it's not one i'll use as i had a Sky+ box in my room anyway lol

[LarryPlane]

This put me off the PC skyplayer thing:

· The Sky Player Software uses secure peer-2-peer technology, which means that your computer will automatically share programmes you've downloaded with other Sky Player users. This is done by software called Kontiki (including KService and KHost) as part of the installation.

I hope that sky via XBL won't have this....

[gavo360]

Originally Posted by LarryPlane

This put me off the PC skyplayer thing:



I hope that sky via XBL won't have this....

Why would this put you off. Its only the same p2p as iplayer. Xbox live uses p2p aswel.

[Bio Max]

is this anything like the sky anytime you access via your sky box? I don't understand why they have that - there's only about 5 programmes I can access on it ffs (I don't have the other packages)

[kingdave]

Originally Posted by gavo360

Why would this put you off. Its only the same p2p as iplayer. Xbox live uses p2p aswel.

iPlayer doesn't use p2p any more. You download directly from the BBC servers and it has been that way for quite a while now (provided you updated the desktop manager software)

[LarryPlane]

I didn't realize that XBL used p2p... So all the demos and crap I have on my Xbox hard drive is being p2p to anyone else looking for those files?

[mred2000]

Originally Posted by LarryPlane

I didn't realize that XBL used p2p... So all the demos and crap I have on my Xbox hard drive is being p2p to anyone else looking for those files?

I've seen articles suggesting MS "might" consider possibly using p2p tech for video content delivery but wasn't aware it was active right now...

Just seen this, though, but still nothing solid; http://www.oxm.co.uk/article.php?id=12122

[gavo360]

Originally Posted by LarryPlane

I didn't realize that XBL used p2p... So all the demos and crap I have on my Xbox hard drive is being p2p to anyone else looking for those files?

I dont think content such as demo's and videos is p2p but i think online play against other people is p2p. Nothing wrong with p2p over xbox live its all safe and legal. Nobody can access any personal files you may have on your 360 hard drive.

[mred2000]

Originally Posted by gavo360

I dont think content such as demo's and videos is p2p but i think online play against other people is p2p. Nothing wrong with p2p over xbox live its all safe and legal. Nobody can access any personal files you may have on your 360 hard drive.

I don't think that online multiplayer uses any kind of p2p technology, to my knowledge... as I mentioned above, MS are only just considering p2p tech for video downloads as their bandwidth is getting choked...