I think live TV will probably not happen for a few years yet in the UK at least as even Virgin media (a cable company) whose internet speeds are the highest in the country (upto 20Mbps) aren't doing live tv through its HD set-top box. Maybe in America its different though.
Yes not much different to what is on offer now except maybe the subscription part and as yet there is no HD content. I suppose it will allow a lot more content as companies like HBO, Warner, BBC and Channel 4 all use it to provide content. Its basically streaming rather than downloading the TV shows.
I can only comment on what BT provide in the UK which is going to be the same that the Xbox has in the UK. There is no live content through BTs IPTV service, Their is a wide selection of programming available on a Pay as you go basis, I think its around about £1.99 a tv episode £2.99 for a film. They have a TV replay feature from the BBC and Channel 4, I think most/all this content is free at least at the moment it is. It offers subscription packages to sections such as music videos...
"Stand-alone HD-DVD players have outsold Blu-Ray for months, and this holiday season was no different." Warner already said that Bluray stand alones outsold hd-dvd stand alone players in December.
IPTV will is a way of delivering TV content on demand. Its not a recorder as everything is on demand nothing is live you just select the content when you want to watch it. At least thats how it is in the UK. The video quality of the on demand content isn't as good as freeview but will probably get better as Broadband speeds get higher or compression gets better.
Which is why I think intitially there will be no traditional TV channels as such through IPTV, certainly not in the UK as BTs IPTV service is just On demand content.
Maybe Sony will use Skype as its ingame voice chat service for the ps3 meaning you can talk to anyone who has Skype while playing games.
In the UK the Xbox IPTV will be through BT. I own BT Vision which is their IPTV service that they have already and it is basically a freeview recorder that gets its signal through an aerial along with on demand content. I suspect that the Xbox IPTV won't come with the freeview part just the on demand (Streamed content) stuff.
yeah the table thing (forget what its called) is call although I can't see it taking off for a few years yet.
No big xbox announcement, seems like the Ultimate rumours could of been true. From what they say it seems like to get the IPTV you have to have BT broadband and buy your xbox through them so existing xboxs won't be compatible?!?
Can't see why people would buy an xbox through BT when BT offer their own IPTV set-top box for £30.
IPTV coming to the xbox in the UK.
LOL from xboxusersgroup.com "Despite the Warner Bros. Blu-Ray score for Sony, there is still not a clear winner in the contest, which appears to be intensifying." Appears to be over more like. Everyone but Toshiba and HD-DVD fanboys are saying this war is over. Move on.
The news here to me is that a lot of people thought that we would never see Mass effect 1 on the PS3 as it was MS published, The news here is that bioware own the rights to the 1st Mass effect and so could port it if they wanted to.
I'm pretty happy with the 10 games I own for my PS3 along with my 3 Bluray films and Planet earth bluray.
I don't think Sony should block Microsoft from bringing out a bluray add-on. Imagine when the next generation of consoles come out Sony could refuse to let any other company to make a console with bluray. Personally I think Sony would be happy to let Microsoft bring out a Bluray add-on.
UMD only failed as a movie format, as a format for portable games it is a success.
LOL just like the xbox could play PS2 games because they were both on DVD?
If this story wasn't posted twice it probably would of reached the highest temperature in months.
Q. Was there a Warner pay off.
A. Ron says "I wish". He says any pay off woudl've been a drop in the bucket so the decision was not related to any payoffs.