Pachter predicts $100 'Platinum' Xbox Live membership

[Ayepecks]

Actually, Microsoft does offer IPTV for the 360, but only on IPTV systems that use their own Mediaroom software, and only on two providers right now; BT Vision in the UK, and Telus Optik TV in west-coast Canada. Though there are plans to introduce it on AT&T's U-Verse soon though. Heck to promote it, Telus has been giving away Xbox 360 S consoles to new internet/TV subscribers as an incentive.

I'm aware. I'm saying having it bundled.

[Hedon]

I hope it comes to uverse in the us. That would rock.

[DanManIt]

MS could include netflix/sky subscription, add in some extra streaming (i.e. spotify/pandora - with spotify's "unlimited service", or ITV/4OD player)), a fully fledged internet browser, and 400MS points a month for $100/?80 a year and they can really market it as a proper media entertainment device.

Think about it, you'd have all of the extra stuff you'd want from your cable subscription, which you usually end up paying like ?20 a month for anyway. You'd end up paying ?5 for spotify (a month). That's already ?25. Times that by twelve, and you'd already way over twice the amount you'd pay for a platinum service.

I personally think Microsoft could quite easily pull of a feat like that - I wouldn't mind chipping in a tenner each month for something like that (yes, I'd be paying ?120 a year, but who -really- calculates their finances like that, when you're always getting paid monthly?)

That is very true. If they offered all of this, they could definitely get more customers to switch to a more expensive plan.