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Xbox 360 Sky Player Launches

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By Tom Ivan

October 27, 2009

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Sky Player has launched on Xbox Live with 24 channels available to watch via Microsoft’s Xbox 360.

Xbox Live members who are subscribers to the online Sky Player service and have at least a 2MB broadband connection will be able to access channels including Sky One, MTV and Sky Arts.

Non-Sky TV customers can subscribe to the service from £15 per month for the Entertainment Pack, but sports and movie channels will cost more, according to CVG.

Terrestrial channels aren’t available initially and programmes won’t be broadcast in HD because of Britain’s restrictive broadband speeds, Sky's David Mercer told Metro.

"For BSkyB it offers further evidence that its future subscriber growth is not dependent on its traditional satellite set-top box strategy," he said.

"For Microsoft it is further confirmation that the Xbox is on its way to becoming not just a games console, but rather a complete home entertainment system."

Sky's Griff Parry also noted that more channels will be “added all the time”.

zakrocz's picture
On October 28th zakrocz said:

What pisses me off is people telling me how good the bbc is and why i should pay for a service i do not use. You watch the bbc, fine, i don't, haven't done for years, or the other channels for that matter. I couldn't give a monkeys if the bbc went down the pan.

YOU DO NOT NEED A TV LICENCE IF YOU OWN A TV

YOU DO NEED A TV LICENCE IF YOU WATCH OR RECORD LIVE BROADCASTS

I know the law you obviously don't.

No go away and stop making fools of yourselves, baa baa bloody baa sheep.

zakrocz's picture
On October 27th zakrocz said:

I wonder how long it will take the bbc to start including the 360 in their threatening letters...

ArronC07's picture
On October 27th ArronC07 said:

Maybe you should pay your licence fee then?

Larson's picture
On October 27th Larson said:

No fucking way. I'm against it in principal.

ArronC07's picture
On October 27th ArronC07 said:

But I bet you use at least one of the BBC's services. If you don't want to pay your licence fee, don't own a tv and don't use the services provided by the BBC. It pisses me off that people can't see what great value the BBC is.

Larson's picture
On October 28th Larson said:

You don't need a licence to own a TV Arron. I have two and have never had a licence. But they never come after me you see, because I live in a nice area, and I'm not a vulnerable single mother or suchlike. The TV licensing arm of the BBC (for that is what it is, a wholly owned subsidary that trys to appear as if its part of government) prefers to chase up people like that in deprived areas where they can bully and intimidate people that they do not even know for sure should be paying.

They hire thugs and blanket mail shot any address without a licence fee, and make up stories about magical "detector vans" to scare you. Well I'm not scared, and I'm not paying.

The BBC is not great value at all, it's a bloated corporation that completely ignores it's duty to be impartial, and makes plenty of money from it's worldwide services thank you very much.

jb1's picture
On October 28th jb1 said:

It will be a sad day when people like you manage to whine so much that the bbc is finally killed. It is great value and once its gone it can never come back, pay up.

Larson's picture
On October 28th Larson said:

Great Value http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5641639/BBC-boss-Mark-Thom...

Larson's picture
On October 28th Larson said:

The BBC has served us well, but needs to reform the way it is funded.

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On October 28th Ben_Lathwell said:

The BBC acts as a Quality control for all our TV here in the UK, ok UK TV aint great but its better than most other countries.

Without the BBC our TV we be like American TV:
'opening titles, advert, ten minutes of film, advert, an entirely different programme, advert, rest of film with adverts, news, advert, film ending, advert, credits, advert'

Larson's picture
On October 27th Larson said:

I'll let you know, they send me at least one a month.