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Sky 360 movie hits YouTube

October 23rd, 2009 @ 20:57
By Patrick Garratt

There’s a movie of Sky working on 360 after the break. Looks pretty hot, to be fair.

Just watch it. Brits will be using this next Tuesday.

Thanks, CaZ.

Posted in: Hot, Microsoft, UK, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, tv

Viewing 12 responses

pracer said:

October 23, 2009 at 9:03 pm

That looks good, I understand thats UK only right? What does something like cost? Is it per show, monthly or something else? Thats almost as good as Netflix.
Mike said:

October 23, 2009 at 9:07 pm

I’m waiting for the Canal Digital team-up for Europe. Although I’m sure Scandinavia will be the last to get it. If at all.
Patrick Garratt said:

October 23, 2009 at 9:11 pm

It’s UK-only, yeah.
pracer said:

October 23, 2009 at 9:15 pm

*grumble. Looks good tho.
Enkeixpress said:

October 23, 2009 at 9:16 pm

I was hoping for alot more Sky channels then that! lol

.. Hopefully, Xbox will keeping adding more & more until we’ve got the entire library of all the channels available on Sky TV .. Including BBC One, Why isn’t that on there already? wtf
renegadegd said:

October 23, 2009 at 10:41 pm

im hoping all those channels will come for £15 max, but i have a feeling they will rip us of as much as they can. probably have to pay extra for the movie and sport channels.
reask said:

October 23, 2009 at 11:50 pm

That is impressive imo.
Buffering a bit of a bummer but really cool overall.
I wonder how much. /{:
Roybott said:

October 24, 2009 at 11:19 am

if you look at the information panel (at 4:45 in the video) it says:

“Not an existing Sky TV Customer? Subscribe to Sky Player TV and watch TV from Sky on your Xbox 360 without a dish or long term contract”

So basically it looks like it will just cost the same price as the online sky player, well subscribing to the Sky player gives you access to programs/channels on this as well as online.

It says go to ‘xbox.skyplayer.com/subscribe’ for more info, which then requires you to login, so if anyone has a Sky Player account can you go and take a look if there is a price list or more 360 info?
freedoms_stain said:

October 24, 2009 at 12:30 pm

They seem to be keeping the subscription costs tight to their chests for now.

They’re also bringing this to the Windows Media Center, which is why I’m interested. I’m into Tennis and sky sports have the uk rights to the masters tour, so being able to stream it would be of interest, right now I tend to watch live tennis via bet365 who let you watch without betting and join up without making a deposit, but their player is tiny and can’t be maximised or resized at all.

I have friends with sky and they have dozens of shitty channels they never watch, I don’t want to be paying for that, so I’m hoping for a tier’d system where you can choose a limited number of channels and/or subscribe to on-demand for certain programs. And I mean free choice, none of this ‘package’ shit sky are so fond of.
Retroid said:

October 25, 2009 at 1:46 pm

That actually looks pretty damned good! A tiny bit light on content (I could do with losing all the sports channels, personally) but what’s there looks *very* nice.

/Is an existing subscriber on Sky BB
Johnny Cullen said:

October 25, 2009 at 8:13 pm

I see Thom Yorke.

*grins*

Looks good anyways.
Detale said:

October 26, 2009 at 9:02 am

Interesting idea, I’m already an idiot Sky HD customer so it’s not really going to add much for me but I can see the sports element in particular being very attractive to people (although chances are they’re already a Sky subscriber too).