Sky High Comments by Ellie Gibson

Unfortunately I can't see this catching on in Ireland. The biggest ISP (Eircom) has a monthly cap of just 30-50 GB. People aren't going to pay for Sky on their Xbox if it runs the risk of pushing them over their download limit.

@roz123 Aha, I was wondering if that was possible. Guess I'll at least check this out on my parents Sky account then. Unfortunately they cancelled the movie package a few weeks back so no On Demand films for me :(

@ jess456

bit of a short sighted view, if people are given reasons to demand higher bandwidth the will demand it and the market will respond

besides an episode of 24 is 650mb, so you could still get quiet a lot of viewing out of a 30/50gig monthly limit

Have Sky said that it would be free like the Sky Player content to existing subscribers? I didn't see a confirmation of that. If they're going to charge a subscription service then it should be available to silver members too. I think it would be seriously daft to charge the fee to existing users but then again we are talking about two greedy corporations here.

Perhaps they could do a Gold + Sky deal that works out a bit cheaper than separately to tempt some silver users. I started out as monthly Gold and then I realised that there had been around 4 months where I hadn't played online and cancelled it. Cancelling the monthly service was a pain in the butt and a good reason why you're better off getting a 3 or 12 month up front service.

Perhaps Sky might start providing 360's instead of Sky+ boxes, they both have the same reliability! (That was a joke before anyone gets their flame on)

@nickfernando They haven't said any pricing info, but most people (me included) are taking the likely pricing and set up ideas from them saying "Look at Sky Player Online".

so if i already have sky, would i still need to pay to watch stuff via my xbox? if so, why would i if it would technically be cheaper to just get multiroom?

Just noticed something very interesting. Sky On Demand also has all the Iplayer stuff on it, and since non-subscribers may well be able to download shows for a price like they do online, this may well be Iplayer in disguise at least.

@GamerG I hope that happens, but Eircom dominates the market and hasn't been keeping up with existing demand for broadband for years now. Ireland is a small country with a small market that doesn't attract all that many players. Lots of people (especially families) are already hitting or near to their cap with regular use, so they wouldn't be able to watch many episodes of 24 on their Xbox without passing it. Ah well, just another one of the many things to complain about over here :)

So you must be a tard if you watch Sky? There's nothing on it to watch unless you like sport?

Well I'm very clever. I hate sport. But I have Sky HD. And I really enjoy it. I love movies and a lot of my regular TV shows are now broadcast by Sky in HD.

My personal opinions are: I don't like Rupert Murdoch and I do believe the service could be cheaper. But they are just that - my opinions.

Got Sky+ HD so who cares about some items being on the 360 as I have them anyway. Free mobile or skype calls can handle any conversations with people in another location. For big games I would go to the pub anyway!

Non Starter.

Some nice ideas but apparently it's streaming at 1mbps. Assuming Microsoft is using VC1/WMV that ain't gonna look pretty. The SD content on the Live Marketplace is supposed to be DVD quality but it's nowhere near. In fact, the whole concept of DVD quality at 1mbps is borderline-laughable.

So, I'd have to pay over the odds to get a fully expanded 360, pay over the odds to get the premium Live service, and now pay over the odds to get access to tv shows from Sky?

Do Microsoft think their customers are made of money? Beside which, I'm guessing most 360 owners will have Sky or Virgin, Freeview, BBC iPlayer etc etc.

Seems pointless if you have sky and even 1 friend to watch sports with if you watch sports and have friends.

Seems pointless if you'll need to subscribe too because then you may as well take advantage of the free sky+ box offers that come around every few months.

Seems pointless if you allready have sky and use sky online cause you can just download and stream to tv (through media player + xbox or ps3 or any number of other devices or even inbuilt tv capability) and many tvs are now coming with net access and net video playing capability.

In short seems pointless all over.

Retard means to hinder progress it is inapropriately used as an insult. That and its offensive and stupid.

Also as detailed by my previous post its not nifty or even that sensible given current technology. Its aimed at console users more lightly to already know of the myriad ways they can get content from a PC to their tv.

And the people who took the 360's brand message on board who aren't gamers are very lightly to have a similar service already, as pointed out by others.

Play Tv was ok because it was an extender, it made the PS3 into a straight up PVR for digital which is far different than an offer of web tv. However Play TV was gimped at least in England when they took out HD compatability, and charged too much. (Almost seemed to market Humax's lower end PVR's)

no thanks Sky/MS. I already feel a little cheated by having to pay to play games on Live, and i just dont watch tv enough to warrant pumping more money every month into my 360.

good luck watching football in low bitrate.

@evilfoxhound

"This is interesting though. Anyone remember the Play TV feature on Eurogamer"

You seem quite comfortable being on the trolling side of the fence this time. Which of your two faces am I currently addressing?


"you shouldn't use the word "tard"".

"it makes you look like a little teenage cocksucker."

Hmm, extra mature cheese. Deliciously ironic.

Well babestation is on freeview now as well so this is just pointless....

In all honesty though I like the room to be quiet while Im watching tv, to watch it through my 360 would remind me of being back at me mams trying to watch the footy with her hoovering around me

Sky actually say:

Meanwhile existing Sky customers who own an Xbox will gain another viewing option, in addition to their Sky set-top box and PC or Mac

Source:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Busines...

Jesus Christ some of these comments are pathetic,

People bending over backwards to say why they "do not care", "I read books", "I go to the pub", "I can use Skype" bla blah

We all know if this was a new feature of the PS3 the same people would be going nuts, pretty sad really..


Truth is tonnes of people will love these features, imagine kids at school finding out that if they had a 360 they'd also be able to effectively have a sky box in their bed rooms? for no additional cost assuming their parents already have a subscription? Imagine how many people will buy 2nd 360's so they can stick one in their room (like myself).

This is an extremely clever move by MS and everyone knows it..

I'll sign up to Sky on XBL if it includes Sky 1 etc. I'll want my House and 24 fix.

@ woodnotes

It seems it does, check the third picture down

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php...

"@ woodnotes

It seems it does, check the third picture down"

Yes, but the date on that is 28th May, and the programmes on that screen don't match up to what was actually on at that time, so it is obviously just a mock-up.

Sky 1 isn't on PC Sky Player and unless you actually have Sky TV, you have to pay for Sky 1's on-demand stuff, even if you subscribe to the entertainment pack.

Microsoft have been after the media box in your front room that does everything for the last 10 years, i even remember Bill's "Future House" that according to him we should all be living in now.

Its good to see deals like this happening as it puts pressure on the competition and other players to make this happen.

Probably cost a bomb though, Sky are already saying how Sky HD offers alot of benefits that 360 doesn't do too.

one to watch how it pans out.

I have a 360, don't have Sky but I'd be very interested in this if
a) They offered more movies than MS do and in HD and
b) The pricing was reasonable, e.g. about the same as hiring a Blu-ray disc from Blockbusters.

If you get live HD sports working and charge me less than £40 a month for all three channels I will buy.

GamerG, you can currently get a Sky+HD box for £49. Why would you buy a 2nd 360?

All I want is a netflicks style package for my PS3/xbox360!

That's not hard!

I haven't read all the comments here, so I'm not sure if anyone has already mentioned the fact that even with a Sky subscription you have to pay for multiroom in order to access anything other than a few crappy channels on the Sky Player. So if this is just an extension of said player, then it's barely worth it even if you do have an existing subscription.

Or they could just include an internet browser & we could acess Sky online, BBCi, youtube, 4ondemand, ITV's rip off of the iplayer, redtube. You know, Like I can already do on the PS3...

Well Im still confused on this... so if you already have multiroom you dont have to pay anything extra for it and you get all the channels you would get on the STB plus extras?

Thats still good news for existing customers unless you live in a household consisting of two people(in which case the multiroom and extra STB will have you covered). There seems to be alot of people trying to convince themselves its crap before they even know whats what, that can only mean one thing imo.(bias)

P.S Bwahahahah! I see the usual Sony fanboys are having cold sweats over this news, pretty funny actually and these same people will probably turn up in another thread next week complaining about someone else being a fanboy. I actually enjoy seeing these sad trolls getting worked up over good news for the 360 and its fans, the bigger the reaction they give you know MS has done something right. ;)

@ El-Dev

because the 2nd HD box would also cost £15 a month

@ justanotherdave

So you can watch the premier league live or 24 and so on instantly on your PS3?

Sounds pretty good. Any extra functionality is a plus and I'm sure there are many sports fans rejoicing that now they can get pay per view events without a subscription.

Personally, I would love access to those 10,000 Netflix movies. That's mass appeal right there.

I use Sky Player, 4 On Demand and Iplayer on my laptop and PC, and out of the three of them Sky Player is by far the worst.

It tears like a bastard on both my setups. I think it's because it uses some SilverLight player or some crap which produces a lovely picture, but can't handle any horizontal panning. I've been through grfx card settings, player settings to no avail.

So if the Xbox version gets rid of the tearing then I will probably use it once in a blue moon.

Ugh, Rupert.

@ RESIDENT_nEVILe

SIlverlight runs fine for me on my 3 year old box standard HP laptop and I use the Sky player all the time when away with work

With a closed system like the 360 there will be no settings to tweak so I'm sure they'll get it working great just like netflix

@GamerG

Ah, cheers for the info. I will have a mess about with my settings again. I guess it probably is a better player, it just annoyed me a tad because all the flash based players work like a charm.

I'm pretty hopeful that the Xbox version will be fine from the get go, because it is common knowledge that screen tear = the Devil's own handiwork :)

Be great laugh when watching live sports and switching on/off live camera (with Avatars! onscreen) to join in the events & scream, swear, laugh, gossip. cuss with mates/fans around the country.

I hate Rupert Murdoch and I hate paying for TV, why couldn't they have just got iPlayer?

Already a sky customer. Don't need this, do I?