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Xbox 360 IPTV
Brandon Hill (Blog) - January 7, 2007 6:55 PM
Early Friday morning, a story made its way over to Engadget detailing the next generation Xbox 360 console. Engadget showed a single image of the I/O ports on the back of console complete with a new HDMI port. The story also noted that Zephyr would feature a cool-running 65 nanometer IBM Xenon PowerPC processor and larger 120GB hard drive. The leaked details of the upgraded hardware on the Xbox 360 have lead to furious debates online spreading to sites like AnandTech, Engadget and Xbox-Scene. But that is not all that Microsoft has in store for Xbox 360 owners this year. The other half of Microsoft’s grand scheme, a serious Microsoft bid for the IPTV market, was leaked on early Saturday by Dean Takahashi. Takahashi, a blogger for A+E Interactive, has always had excellent access to industry leaders including NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsuan Huang and Microsoft COO Kevin Turner. Microsoft today confirmed what was earlier reported by Takahashi -- the Xbox 360 will not only serve as a game console, Media Center Extender and a portal for TV show/movie downloads, but it will also serve as an IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) device. Although Microsoft made no official announcement of providers for IPTV service on the Xbox 360, AT&T already uses Microsoft IPTV software and is likely to jump onboard. And with services like video-on-demand (VOD) and digital video recording likely to be provided, it makes perfect sense that Microsoft would be likely be pushing a larger 120GB hard drive instead of the "paltry" 20GB currently in service. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 currently has the ability of streaming high-definition content through the use of a Windows Media Center PC. IPTV allows users to take advantage of high-definition TV programming over a standard broadband connection without the need for a PC. Microsoft says that the service will roll out later this year. The addition of IPTV on the Xbox 360 platform would give Microsoft a distinct advantage over its Japanese rivals. Consumers will now having gaming, access to PC multimedia content, online access to music/music videos, downloadable TV shows and movies, IPTV with PVR and VOD and the option of HD DVD playback with the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive all from a single console. Microsoft is truly attempting to make the Xbox 360 the multimedia centerpiece for your connected home and this may just be the icing on the cake. http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5598 |
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Are you suggesting that MS will buy Tiscali or that they will roll out a proprietary system.
IMHO buying/leasing Tiscali makes more sense |
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Homechoice will be going round in a circle if MS do buy tiscali since homechoice was started by a microsoft founder IIRC.
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I heard there was one trial with HC using MS IPTV in East London last year. BT Vision use MS IPTV.
The possibility exists that we get the new low powered x360 as a STB driven by MS IPTV software. Just a thought. |
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At least we would get PVR capabilities if that were to happen
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=501941
BT Vision uses IPTV and two people have had it installed. The list of VOD is very good (I assume its PPV). Downloading a music video gives you 6 minutes to listen to it ! Oh, and the TV VOD is capped. There is a another thread listing the installation ( pixellation, crashing and total failure of the STB) . |
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There is a subscription option just as with HC.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/m...v-on-xbox-360/ Quote:
Doug Anderson chatted with Microsoft yesterday and managed to scare up some interesting new details about that new IPTV service that is due out for the Xbox 360 later this year. Seems that their partner here in the US will be AT&T (no surprise there), which is rolling out its new fiber optic Project Lightspeed network (though last mile service will be over copper). The service will reportedly have enough bandwidth for viewing 2 simultaneous HD channels and 2 simultaneous SD channels and will require a router with special QoS features that can handle IPTV traffic. Sounds about right, since those are more or less the basic requirements for IPTV, and we figured that getting watching live HD broadcasts on your Xbox 360 wouldn't be as simple as a software upgrade.
Reading The BT Vision forum give some inkling of what can go wrong with a new PVR based service. There is no way BT Vision can be described as fit for purpose - at the moment.Given time, maybe but I'd prefer to wait for working service. Last edited by Peter We : 09-01-2007 at 13:21. |
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