Comments on: Sky 360 movie hits YouTube

By: Detale

Detale — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:02:45 +0000

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).

By: Johnny Cullen

Johnny Cullen — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:13:34 +0000

I see Thom Yorke.

*grins*

Looks good anyways.

By: Retroid

Retroid — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:46:47 +0000

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

By: freedoms_stain

freedoms_stain — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:30:30 +0000

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.

By: Roybott

Roybott — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:19:33 +0000

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?

By: reask

reask — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:50:59 +0000

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

By: renegadegd

renegadegd — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:41:32 +0000

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.

By: Enkeixpress

Enkeixpress — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:16:51 +0000

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

By: pracer

pracer — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:15:52 +0000

*grumble. Looks good tho.

By: Patrick Garratt

Patrick Garratt — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:11:26 +0000

It’s UK-only, yeah.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:07:28 +0000

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.

By: pracer

pracer — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:03:13 +0000

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.