Rumour: Xbox As Comcast, Verizon Cable Box Imminent

13 responses to “Rumour: Xbox As Comcast, Verizon Cable Box Imminent”

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   James Mac

   September 20, 2011 at 8:42 am

   How does that work without a signal in jack?

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      Adam

      September 20, 2011 at 11:43 am

      You’re an idiot.

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         James Mac

         September 20, 2011 at 1:11 pm

         And you’re blatantly rude.

         I haven’t lived in America.
         I don’t know if ‘cable’ tv runs differently to normal ‘arial in’ television. I assume it can run off satelite dishes, and set top boxes.

         As the xbox doesn’t have an input point for television… why is my question less than valid?

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            qbngeek

            September 20, 2011 at 1:23 pm

            And you’re still an idiot.

            It would be delivered via the internet just like Foxtel on Xbox 360 is in Australia, just like ABC and Seven are delivered to the PS3 in Australia.

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               James Mac

               September 20, 2011 at 2:08 pm

               Then perhaps it should stipulate that somewhere in the damn article.

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               Aaron

               September 20, 2011 at 4:23 pm

               Mmm, and lightning-fast, too!

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   Blackhawk

   September 20, 2011 at 8:47 am

   That’s great and all…but what abut us Aussies? Left in the dark again like the promised voice communication with kinect are we?

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      Batguy

      September 20, 2011 at 9:01 am

      We’ve been able to use foxtel on the xbox for months, with all content delivered over the Internet. Pretty sure this is exactly the same thing.

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   Daniel

   September 20, 2011 at 8:57 am

   So this is something like Xbox TV???

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4. 

   Morkai

   September 20, 2011 at 9:06 am

   I would assume it just works the same way as it does for Foxtel in Australia, they just stream the content through your net connection, rather than having an actual cable tv connection input, which, of course, is going to lead to massive quality degredation when your roommate/brother/dad/creepy uncle won’t stop watching porn.

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   Virus__

   September 20, 2011 at 10:49 am

   At least in the US they can get away with this easier than here. But i’m not sure why you’d opt for this.

   A few months back I did a bit of research and with Verizon I think it was on their Fios network, which is Fibre I believe, for as little as 75 bucks a month you get 35mbps down & like 25mbps up with unlimited usage, 150+ cable tv channels & a rather awesome phone plan for the home phone.

   For like 115 a month you got something like 300+ cable tv channels & like 75mbps download with 35mbps upload.

   I could only research Verizon in the end because they were the only ones who wanted to tell me anything without needing details, phone number, address & other shit.

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   Alexander

   September 20, 2011 at 8:59 pm

   We just have to wait and see! Let`s hope it will not disappoint!

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7. 

   Otacon

   September 21, 2011 at 1:12 am

   I am happy with the Foxtel on Xbox 360 service but I wish they would add the proper Foxsports channels and not Foxsports News and Foxsports Play.
   I hope they add HD streaming for people with greater internet connections. Watching Foxtel in ‘high’ quality on Xbox is okay but could be much better in HD, considering a lot of people have 1080p tvs now.

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