Ironman273 Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Xbox 360 IPTV dream not dead yetby Richard Lawler, posted Jan 10th 2009 at 8:01PM Remember Xbox 360 IPTV rollout? Though the wonderful fantasy of replacing our stodgy cable DVRs with an all-in-one Left 4 Dead playing / channel surfing beast has dried up like a raisin in the sun, Dave Zatz confirmed with Microsoft booth reps that BT is (still) planning on deploying the service, and despite the NXE the UI will retain the look of the current Motorola boxes pictured above. Now that U-Verse has delivered Total Home DVR and upgraded beyond 1 HD stream at a time, maybe they can get to work on this deployment next? Source: Engadget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunknMunky Veteran Posted January 11, 2009 Veteran Share Posted January 11, 2009 They really to get a move on with it tbh. A good sign we are hearing news about it though (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kushan Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 It'd be good, but come hell or high-water I will not be paying ****** Telecom for the privilege of having them shaft me over connection charges, line rental, etc. (Speaking from experience, by the way). I'd rather Microsoft made a deal with them similar to Netflix so we don't necessarily have to deal directly with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 It'd be good, but come hell or high-water I will not be paying ****** Telecom for the privilege of having them shaft me over connection charges, line rental, etc. (Speaking from experience, by the way).I'd rather Microsoft made a deal with them similar to Netflix so we don't necessarily have to deal directly with them. If you have IPTV, since it's provided by your own ISP, the Actual IPTV services lies outside your actual connection, sort of. IPTV reduces you're linespeed somewhat, since that bandwidth gets reserved for the IPTV, in the same way, if you have a ISP with caps, IPTV won't affect your download caps. so you get the same TV as you get over cable, OTA or dish, only your ISP is the prived and it's delivered over copper (or alternatively cable or fiber, though, most cable providers probably won't be offering it since they allready do digital tv on the same cable and don't want to affect that). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kushan Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 If you have IPTV, since it's provided by your own ISP, the Actual IPTV services lies outside your actual connection, sort of. IPTV reduces you're linespeed somewhat, since that bandwidth gets reserved for the IPTV, in the same way, if you have a ISP with caps, IPTV won't affect your download caps. so you get the same TV as you get over cable, OTA or dish, only your ISP is the prived and it's delivered over copper (or alternatively cable or fiber, though, most cable providers probably won't be offering it since they allready do digital tv on the same cable and don't want to affect that). Unfortunately, that's not quite how the UK works.... See, in the UK, British Telecom owns...well...pretty much the entire phone line system. Only in recent years, the government forced them to unbundle the exchanges, allowing other ISPs in, but if you want to use one of these ISPs, you STILL need a BT phone line, you still need to pay BT line rental. Some of the bigger companies can lease the lines from BT and so you can deal with those, but it's really just another middleman, if anything goes wrong with the line, you have to complain to them and all they do is complain to BT. Any time someone comes out to your house, it's a BT engineer. Since BT is behind this, they'll no doubt keep a close grip on it. They already offer an on-demand TV service similar to this, but you have to go through them for your internet (which isn't cheap or fast and has stupid download limits) in order to get it. This wont be any different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayepecks Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 No, IPTV on the 360 is dead. ...to me. :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Teej Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Unfortunately, that's not quite how the UK works....See, in the UK, British Telecom owns...well...pretty much the entire phone line system. Only in recent years, the government forced them to unbundle the exchanges, allowing other ISPs in, but if you want to use one of these ISPs, you STILL need a BT phone line, you still need to pay BT line rental. Some of the bigger companies can lease the lines from BT and so you can deal with those, but it's really just another middleman, if anything goes wrong with the line, you have to complain to them and all they do is complain to BT. Any time someone comes out to your house, it's a BT engineer. Since BT is behind this, they'll no doubt keep a close grip on it. They already offer an on-demand TV service similar to this, but you have to go through them for your internet (which isn't cheap or fast and has stupid download limits) in order to get it. This wont be any different. And in fact, the only alternative is virgin media, where you don't need a BT line at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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