Sky to offer live sport and movies over Xbox Live


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Two entertainment giants have joined together to offer premium live television through a games console for the first time.

Microsoft and BSkyB will let Xbox 360 customers subscribe to Sky's online TV service and watch programmes through their games console from this autumn.

A Sky spokesman said the full channel line-up will be revealed closer to launch, but users will be able to access blockbuster movies, entertainment shows, documentaries and sports. They will be able to watch action live or on-demand.

Interactive features will be included. For example football fans watching Sky Sports will be able to communicate to one another in real-time via their broadband connections. They will also be able to check news and access fixtures and league tables.

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I am quite excited about this. If it comes in at a reasonable price, i'd be quite prepared to pay for a decent quality football or movie stream through Live.

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I guess one question would be, if you already pay for Sky (the full package), will they charge your more for this "feature"? Also I wonder what the quality is going to be like, and what sort of bandwidth are required?

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Cool :) sounds good, I hope I don't have to pay extra seeing as though they bleed me dry every month already.

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Looks like they have sky1, from pictures Ive seen. :)

Hopefully it will just be dependent on the packages(eg free channels, entertainment, movies, sports) you have, to watch live tv.

Then maybe charge for watching on-demand. Just like current Sky Player.

Already got multi-room, but wouldn't mind trying it out on the xbox for fun.

Register - has pics and alot more information, than Daily Mail.

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quality should be just like the rest of the video marketplace and netflix, as in DVD and above. seems like the blitz is about to end for you people.

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We have the full sky TV package (Sky+) downstairs, but we NEVER watch TV anymore :( Will we have to get a complete different package for this? :/

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Nope! If you have the full sky package you should be able to watch it for free, just like the Desktop version on http://sky.com/player - if you can watch that you can watch it on the 360. At least, that's my understanding.

Why have I never seen this -_-

Thanks!

EDIT: Turns out you need a sky multiroom package?

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EDIT: Turns out you need a sky multiroom package?

Yeah, which is ********! They get enough money out of me as it is with the Full TV package, Max broadband, Unlimited all day calls and line rental. Why don't they just take the house, or maybe the car :p. I suppose I will end up paying it anyway lol. I will try my hardest to get it free though :p didn't hurt in the past with getting stuff from Sky. :D

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I'll be in a house, with Sky HD, with 4 other people who all have 360's. We'd each be willing to pay ?2-5 extra a month each (so what, ?25?) to have all our 360's work with this, but if it's anything like Sky Player, it'll be one Console only, no matter what you do =\

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I'll be in a house, with Sky HD, with 4 other people who all have 360's. We'd each be willing to pay ?2-5 extra a month each (so what, ?25?) to have all our 360's work with this, but if it's anything like Sky Player, it'll be one Console only, no matter what you do =\

Why limit it to one console per house? If they're going to charge something extra why not open it to as many 360's as a home has?

Just treat it as another set-top box. I know cable companies like say, comcast, charge you extra per month for as many boxes as you want in your house. My cousin had, iirc, 4 in his house. Family room, basement, and 2 bedrooms.

So just look at the 360 as another box for them and don't limit it.

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Why limit it to one console per house? If they're going to charge something extra why not open it to as many 360's as a home has?

Just treat it as another set-top box. I know cable companies like say, comcast, charge you extra per month for as many boxes as you want in your house. My cousin had, iirc, 4 in his house. Family room, basement, and 2 bedrooms.

So just look at the 360 as another box for them and don't limit it.

Well aside from Sky being money-grabbing ******* (as well as BT, Virgin, Microsoft, etc.), it's probably easier for them to do that and charge more than work out a way to prevent people giving access to their friends and stuff. They can't limit it by IP because the point is that you can watch sky while on the move, on a laptop or whatever, if you're so inclined and can find a fast enough connection.

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Well aside from Sky being money-grabbing ******* (as well as BT, Virgin, Microsoft, etc.), it's probably easier for them to do that and charge more than work out a way to prevent people giving access to their friends and stuff. They can't limit it by IP because the point is that you can watch sky while on the move, on a laptop or whatever, if you're so inclined and can find a fast enough connection.

The smart thing is to just check the 360's device ID, the same thing MS uses when they ban people off of live, which is the device and not your account.

Same idea at work, then Sky can know it's a different box and treat it as one even if the IP#'s the same as a 2nd or 3rd 360 in the house.

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Just heard about this, it looks like you'll need a 1mb connection (minimum to use this) so far only heard that Sport is going to be live, but it looks like Sky1 sky news, sky sports news and the history channel are going to be live as well. For people with sky you will have to pay the equivilant of sky multiroom, which makes me believe those without sky should be in for a treat, and should feel pretty much like they have sky, and not some iplayer/skyplayer rip off. Fingers crossed for more news from E3.

PS: has anyone seen the screenshots of the avatars watching football on the big screen. That just looks brilliant.

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Just heard about this, it looks like you'll need a 1mb connection (minimum to use this) so far only heard that Sport is going to be live, but it looks like Sky1 sky news, sky sports news and the history channel are going to be live as well. For people with sky you will have to pay the equivilant of sky multiroom, which makes me believe those without sky should be in for a treat, and should feel pretty much like they have sky, and not some iplayer/skyplayer rip off. Fingers crossed for more news from E3.

PS: has anyone seen the screenshots of the avatars watching football on the big screen. That just looks brilliant.

I'm pretty sure a Sky subscription will be necessary, it's just a case of instead of needing to buy a new Sky Box you can use your 360 and pay the ?10 extra a month for multiroom.

I seriously doubt they're giving you Sky Sports and everything else on your 360 for the cost of a multiroom subscription, Sky make a killing on those sports packages. If they do that's pretty sweet as long as it's the same quality.

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The way Sky works now, Multiroom is like ?10 extra a month and the channels you get are what your main package consists of. So if you pay for the sports, you get them in all rooms.

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Multiroom is the biggest rip off from Sky.

If you was to pay for an extra box, there's no justification for the extra cost. It cannot possibly cost ?10 to have an extra stream going.

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I've always liked the idea of Sky Multiroom, although I've always thought that for the price Sky charges for everything a household should have 2 sky boxes.

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Everyone charges you extra for an extra box as far as I know. Is there even any cable or SatTV service out there that will give you a 2nd box setup for another room and not charge you more per month?

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