Following weeks of rumours and speculation, Microsoft today confirmed that they have teamed up with 40 TV and entertainment providers to bring shows to Xbox Live.
Here’s the full rundown of the partnerships (existing and new) for all countries. The list includes ABC iView, Crackle and SBS On Demand in Australia and will start hitting consoles this Christmas.
What we still don’t know, based on the single post on the Xbox.com Major Nelson blog post, is how exactly this content will show up on the console.
On their own blog, Verizon says the deal is in line with their business of “breaking down old technology boundaries to create a borderless world…
“We’ve announced that we are now collaborating with Microsoft to soon deliver a great selection of live, FiOS TV channels over the Xbox Entertainment System,” wrote Verizon’s Bobbi Henson. “What really makes this exciting is that this innovative, new service will integrate live, multi-channel streaming HD TV and Kinect voice and gesture commands via the Xbox.”
That certainly sounds like IPTV. In the US, Verizon says they plan to offer the service in time for Christmas to customers who subscribe to both FIOS TV, FIOS Internet and have an Xbox Live Gold membership. That’s a whole lotta subscriptions for one thing. More details from Verizon are promised as the launch date approaches.
“By bringing the technologically advanced Verizon FiOS TV service to Xbox 360 and Kinect, we are advancing our vision to provide the best in entertainment in extraordinary new ways,” said Tom Gibbons, corporate vice president of the TV & Service Business for the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft. “Xbox 360 brings all your entertainment, friends and family together in one place, and we look forward to introducing Verizon FiOS TV to the console this holiday.”
Comcast, on their blog, says the content will be bringing to the Xbox 360 will essentially be what iPhone, iPad and PC owners can already access through the company’s Xfinity app. So basically on free on demand content.
Here’s the full list of international TV providers:
• ABC iView — Australia
• AlloCiné — France, Germany, Spain, UK
• Antena 3 — Spain
• Astral Media’s Disney XD — Canada
• AT&T** — US
• BBC — UK
• blinkbox — UK
• Bravo — US
• BSkyB** — UK
• Canal+* — France, Spain
• Channel 4 — UK
• Channel 5 — UK
• CinemaNow (Best Buy) — US
• Comcast — US
• Crackle — Australia, Canada, UK, US
• Dailymotion — Available in 32 markets
• EPIX — US
• ESPN** — US
• Facebook** — Available in all 35 Xbox LIVE markets
• FOXTEL** — Australia
• GolTV — Spain
• HBO GO — US
• Hulu — Japan
• Hulu +**– US
• iHeartRadio (Clear Channel) — US
• Last.fm** — UK, US
• LOVEFiLM — Germany, UK
• Manga Entertainment — US
• Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment/Real Sports — Canada
• MediaSet — Italy
• MSN with MSNBC.com — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, UK
• MUZU.TV — France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK
• Netflix**– Canada, US
• Rogers On Demand Online (RODO) — Canada
• RTVE — Spain
• SBS On Demand — Australia
• Syfy — US
• Telefonica — Spain
• Televisa — Mexico
• “The Today Show” — US
• TELUS** — Canada
• TMZ — US
• Twitter** — Available in all 35 Xbox LIVE markets
• UFC — Canada, US
• Verizon — US
• VEVO — Canada, UK, US
• VimpelCom** — Russia
• Vodafone Portugal** — Portugal
• YouTube — Available in 22 markets
• ZDF — Germany
• Zune** — Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain
Xbox LIVE Gold membership and/or other subscriptions/fees required. ** Denotes existing partners on Xbox LIVE available today.
Xbox 360 Teams Up With Entertainment Leaders to Transform TV
FatShady
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 7:58 AMCool. Interesting to see where this goes. I’m only starting to stream content and I love it. So glad that M$ are going down this path.
Just hope there is a fair amount if free content (ad supported). I’m happy with that.
Chris
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 9:22 AM“ad supported”
I’m sure the ABC would be happy with that.
Meteors
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 8:07 AMWhy would you watch these free to air channels through your xbox?
Meteors
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 8:14 AMOops, meant to say the UK ones like BBC, channel 4 & 5 that aren’t On demand ones.
Kenzor
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 11:43 PMWell I for one can’t get free to air TV so have to rely on online services. Plugging my laptop into the TV gets really annoying after a while.
Lt HELI
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 9:55 AMBecause you can?
/rollseyes
Meteors
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 10:34 AMGood one. Go plug your xbox into your tv that already gets these channels so you can watch them through the xbox.
Black Dahlia NZ
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 10:48 AMnot one of these channels is available in NZ, and looks like they still arent :(
Pariah
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 1:05 PMPS3 and PlayTV has them. umad?
Black Dahlia NZ
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 5:00 PMnot in NZ they dont ballbag
Pariah
Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 6:54 PMit’s called importing. Smart gamers do that.
Black Dahlia NZ
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 5:07 PMu mad when you couldnt get on PSN for over a month? or when they took your free games off you unless you paid.
Pariah
Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 6:53 PMHaha, not really, I gamed on my PC instead. That too is superior to Xbox Live.
Pariah
Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 7:13 PMIt’s also pretty funny that that’s the only thing XBL fanboys can say about PSN. Somehow you think getting regularly hacked, paying for should-be free stuff, and being forces to use inferior storage mediums is more fun xD
DKnight1000
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 3:14 PMWith ABC I was getting the impression it was Iview, so I can watch the shows I missed on my TV, rather than my PC.
And I don’t know what Crackle is, so that’s a bouns.
Jack
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 8:10 AMBecause it’s catch up content & easier than watching on your PC…
Cameron
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 8:14 AMSo we only get iView, “Crackle” (whatever that is), and SBS on demand?
Jack
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 8:41 AMPlus YouTube & DailyMotion
N0NEoftheAB0VE
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 12:20 PMYoutube is where it’s at for me – I still watch on avg 3 or 4 vids a day on there and to have on the TV would kick ass.
James Mac
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 3:13 PMThe ‘All your history are belong to us’ series on my big screen?
Hell yeah.
PseudoEdge
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 8:25 AMCrackle has movies and tv shows for streaming. Although most are old reruns like Seinfeld.
McGarnical
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 8:26 AMCome back when we get HBO.
(Yeah I know I’m dreaming..!)
Korwin
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 8:47 AMHope it’s better than the Foxtel integration which gets locked to a single console.
f4ction
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 8:59 AMSounds pretty boring to me. I was excited when I saw HBO and SyFy. Oh well, back to torrenting.
Stevorooni
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 9:01 AMBased on the crackle website it looks mostly like 80/90′s stuff and direct to dvd movies.
Adam
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 9:07 AMThinking of buying an Xbox – what’s the Foxtel service like on it? I know it’s streaming, so is it reliable? iView, etc looks rubbish on the PS3, so wondering if it’s any better than that?
f4ction
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 9:24 AMDoesn’t iView depend on your connection? I’ve got mine set to max and it looks fine (not HD though) but it crawls a bit even on my cable connection.
MikeZdoesit
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 1:33 PMIts actually brilliant, some excellent channels and content and at very cheap price with no lock in contracts like fetch or some other internet TV deals. My wife was against it at first but now shes clicking through catch up all the time (and she isnt to good with using stuff!).
Prashy
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 1:36 PMIt’s reliable if you have a good internet connection (like me). Plus, all the things MikeZdoesit said.
Aliasalpha
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 9:24 AMVerizon says the deal is in line with their business of “breaking down old technology boundaries to create a borderless world… We would have said this in a video but it wouldn’t be available in your region”
Until people start providing content without regional restriction, “differently legal” downloads are always going to be the superior alternative for the simple fact that you can get what you actually want.
Matthew K
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 9:36 AMFor a moment there I thought XBox Live for Australia would be on par with XBox Live for the US for once. How silly of me.
I’ll continue to use the iView, 7plus, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube widgets on my TV. Or, you know, my PC.
moloko
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 9:41 AMLOL I cant even get foxtel
doubleDizz
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 9:48 AMwait does this mean we might get HBO on XBL???
Would be SO stoked if thats the case
f4ction
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 10:36 AMNo.
doubleDizz
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 2:24 PMBOOOO
mchaza
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 10:13 AMI dont see why the couldnt get 10, 7, 9 on and have ads that they make money on play as well? My guess is that ms wanted a piece of the pie.
Pariah
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 10:17 AMBecause in terms of computing power in comparison to the PS3, the Xbox 360 is as powerful as a TV set top box. This finally shows the Xbox’s true potential.
-trollface-
Black Dahlia NZ
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 10:50 AMIm sure playtv was a seperate set top box for the ps3, what does that say about ps3′s computing power.
Pariah
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 11:13 AMPS3 can handle every channel the country has and doesn’t rely on the internet?
Pariah
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 11:15 AMAlso, PS3′s had ABC iView for ages, and none of the TV stuff requires PS+. That’s right, some companies give stuff out for free.
Black Dahlia NZ
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 11:48 AMdo they give out playtv free? sign me up
It's free when you pay for them
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 1:22 PMI remember The last time Sony gave away something for free….. Yeah my private information and credit card details, they gave em free to someone else. They also offered me free games and discounts if I paid a monthly fee, but then told me if I didn’t keep paying they would take the free games back…… Umm go figure…
Pariah
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 4:36 PMLol, ignorant kid. Sony didn’t give them, they were taken, and the same stunt actually can’t happen again given the changes made and the fact that only the latest firmware can access PSN. Just look at PS3 hack sites; new CFW is out, but none of it can access PSN at all.
Funny how our service just doesn’t go down randomly via human error; PSN is reliable.
It's free when you pay for them
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 5:04 PMIgnorant kid??LOL. Dude look at you trolling this thread. Taken, given away the credit card info, it’s a joke, it’s sarcasm….PSN just doesn’t go down randomly, I’m on PSN and has gone down randomly several times and for weeks on end also which was due to a massive human error……. Keep up ya Sony damage control rants kid
thepariah4231
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 11:40 PMAh, finally someone catches on. Lol, I’m no fanboy, I game on everything; just figured this thread would be the perfect opportunity to bait some fanboys. Evidently, I’m a successful troll.
Though to be perfectly fair, it doesn’t go down randomly due to human error. Only times it does go down is for maintenance, and that one hacking incident. Also if you want to speak of platform security, just keep this in mind: True, nothing is hackproof. If you want to laugh at how PSN took 5 years but was eventually hacked, Xbox Live didn’t even have five months before pirated games were possible and hacked game lobbies were showing up in popular games. PS3 doesn’t even have hacked game lobbies. In that sense, PSN is far more secure. I win.
Black Dahlia NZ
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 8:09 AMyou obviously havent played MW on ps3, its a hacked joke
It's free when you pay for them
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 9:57 AMPSN more secure……..LOL, you are blinded
The only thing you win is the Annual fanboy award at Kotaku
Pariah
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 1:04 PM“It’s free when you pay for them” Haha, I’m not blinded in the slightest. Show me proof (relevant, recent proof) of hackers making it onto PSN after the breach, because it doesn’t exist at all and is far more secure.
Xbox always has hackers. Always. Check CoD. How can one claim that XBL users are more secure when the service relies on the terrible Windows Live ID system, that people can hack without even trying, and steal your account easily?
Haha, you call Me blinded.
Pariah
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 12:59 PMHaha, that’s not the case at all. Just because you suck ass doesn’t make the game full of hackers.
Black Dahlia NZ
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 1:30 PMwhat rank do I have to be to unlock unlimited grenade launcher that fires like a machine gun, or the Reset everyones stats perk.
Pariah
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 1:46 PMAny rank you want on the Xbox.
Pariah
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 11:21 AMIt also screams that the PS3 is superior, since PS3 can not only watch TV, but Record it in real-time. I’d like to see you do that on 360.
-trollface-
Black Dahlia NZ
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 11:50 AMit screams you watch tv more than play games which is want I want a console for.
Pariah
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 12:26 PMNot at all. I game far more than I watch TV. I’m only saying I can watch TV whenever I want, with more channels, without the internet and without subscription fees.
Black Dahlia NZ
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 12:40 PMif you cant afford $1.50 a week there must be a problem, anyway its all good Chad Warden.
Pariah
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 2:09 PMIt’s not that people can’t afford it, it’s that people Shouldn’t Have To pay it. GOnly on Xbox: Pay for free stuff. For instance, ABC iView, that’s free on PC and PS3. Basic online play, free on EVERYTHING ELSE.
Have fun paying $72 a year for stuff that’s actually free, you idiot.
doubleDizz
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 2:33 PMhahaha I love the hardcore ps3 fanboy who clings to that fact constantly.
I can’t say I’m stoked about paying the XBL annual service fee (which I NEVER pay $72 for! jesus christ boy learn2internet!) but if the only other option (on console) is to get a PS3 and use PSN…. yea I’ll stick with XBL haha
You get what you pay for, and PSN doesn’t half the functionality XBL does.
Pariah
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 4:32 PMLearn2internet? I actually took Black Dahlia’s figure and multiplied it by 52 (since he apparently pays $1.50 per week). Trust your fellow members to know how much they’re paying, huh? People are stupid.
It’s not the only other option; you could make your way from the little leagues and get a PC and Steam.
PSN is by far superior to XBL. You pay cash for necessities and the only extra you get is the ability to play in a party; pretty small in the scheme of things.
Black Dahlia NZ
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 8:15 AMthats bad maths
Jack
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 2:50 PMABC will be free, it’s not behind gold.
Quote from ABC “We’re excited to confirm that this will soon include Microsoft Xbox LIVE, subscription free.”
Pariah
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 4:34 PMLearn to read the article beyond the title and first few sentences. I’ll put it here for you;
*rest of list here*
• YouTube — Available in 22 markets
• ZDF — Germany
• Zune** — Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain
*Xbox LIVE Gold membership* and/or other subscriptions/fees *required*.
thxultra
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 4:57 PMGoddamn, stop feeding the troll!!!
aniel
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 4:53 PMLooks like we over here in NZ are getting screwed over yet again by Micro soft, we have Zune but don’t even get all the movies that AUS gets, and 100% bet we won’t even get You tube Fucking sad MS
Mulac
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 5:18 PMWhat is HBO GO? If it’s just HBO, then Hooray!
N7 jpicard
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 7:11 PM@Pariah
TROLL ALERT
Get off your high horse fanboy.
Pariah
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 1:00 AMTook all day but someone finally gets it xD I’m not a fanboy but I’d say my trolling was successful.
Black Dahlia NZ
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 11:40 AM“Back in your hole, grub”
Pariah
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 1:00 PMBecause Kotaku won’t let me reply to your “that’s bad maths”, I’ll ask you why that is? You said you pay a dollar fifty a week. That makes 72 dollars every year. Get your own facts straight.. you’d think you’d know what you pay on such an inferior service.
Black Dahlia NZ
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 1:29 PM52 x $1.50 is $78 not $72
Black Dahlia NZ
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 1:33 PMmakes me wonder about some of these stats your pulling out, are they part of your 48 weeks a year sony calendar.
Pariah
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 3:55 PMNot at all. Though if you did the research instead of acting like a blind fanboy you’d know I’m right. Sad, isn’t it?
Black Dahlia NZ
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 4:49 PMwhat research you muppet, its called a calculator, no matter how hard you try 1.50 x 52 will never equal 72
Pariah
Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 6:58 PMwhat do you know? I hit 2 instead of 8 when I replied. Doesn’t change the facts, though. You’re still paying shitloads for a free service.
What research? Try looking at a few hack sites for both Xbox and PS3, and tell me which console can hack online? Or I’ll just do it for you and say that you can’t connect to PSN with a hacked PS3, but you can hack on Xbox Live. The funny thing is, you say Xbox Live is far more secure, despite the accounts being managed by the Windows Live ID system; where WLM accounts get jacked every other day. Not the safest place to store account information, is it?
PSN is much more secure in that regard, stored actually On PSN. and since the previous hack cannot occur again in that way, it’ll remain much safer, too.
Umad fanboy?
Reags
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 10:02 PMHBO or GTFO
Kid
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 2:49 AMIf its already on the internet and you still pay for internet bandwidth. It aint free or anything new.
Pariah
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 1:01 PMPrecisely. Meanwhile on PlayTV, where you watch REAL TV for free (once you have the unit, obviously. No subscription charges or any of that shit), and not only does it not need the internet at all, you can record what you watch.
Xbox is so inferior here.
Black Dahlia NZ
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 1:49 PMplaytv is around $160, thats 2 years xbox live subscription, why would anyone want that when its free on tv anyway? dunno if you’ve bought a tv recently but they all have built in (in new zealand) freeview which is basically what playtv does.
Pariah
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 3:54 PMWith that being said I’m questioning why you’d bother with this shitty excuse of a console for TV.
Pariah
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 6:07 PMSo, you question My facts and you can’t even look up the price of PlayTV? It’s not 160 dollars, not even close. Silly fanboy.
Black Dahlia NZ
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 4:42 PMnot a fanboy, a “troll” and it “worked”
Black Dahlia NZ
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 4:44 PMhttp://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/PS3/Play-TV/3668744/
Pariah
Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 7:01 PMWhat’s this, you don’t know where to import? Haha, oh this is funny.
Try looking at sites like ozgameshop, the products are much cheaper and they do free shipping for AU and NZ.
Though, Actual TV through PlayTV will always trump internet TV through Xbox, because you needn’t wait for it to buffer and it won’t use any bandwidth at all. That’s just the way it is.
Kid
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 2:57 AM*High-5′s Pariah*
Black Dahlia NZ
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 1:54 PM@ Pooriah: I’ve prestiged about 8 times now on xbox and never seen anything like whats happened on the dismal psn.
Pooriah
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 5:14 PMSo you have no life on Xbox, and you paid to play the same game on another platform? How stupid can you get?
Black Dahlia NZ
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 4:45 PMits not stupid, just sick of PSN bullshit, money well invested on XBL
Pariah
Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 6:48 PMSick of PSN bullshit? Lol, lets compare the two services;
Xbox Live:
Full of children
pay for play
games often have hacked lobbies/cheaters
accounts get hacked and stolen
PSN:
Nowhere near as many kids
Free to play, pay for additional benefits
No hacked libbies/cheaters
individual accounts do not get stolen
Only time PSN had account details stolen was back early this year, never before and now never after. One resolved incident as opposed to Many, regularly-occuring ones. who knows, next month you’ll likely be gaming on a Wii.
Pariah
Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 6:49 PM*lobbies
desallis
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 2:53 PMAnd who pays for this “free” service?
Not sony
Its passed along to the publishers
“While no one is willing to speak on the record, publishers are obviously not happy. “It definitely makes us think about how we view the distribution of content related to our games when it is free for us to do it on the web, on Xbox Live, or any other way—including broadcast—than on Sony’s platform,” a source told Multiplayer. “It’s a new thing we have to budget. It’s not cool. It sucks.””
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/03/someone-pays-sony-charges-publishers-for-ps3-bandwidth.ars
At the end of the day you get what you pay for
Pariah
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 4:00 PMLol, you’ve forgotten about PS+, but that didn’t exist when this old news was out.
At the end of the day you get what you pay for? You’d know, paying for stuff that’s free on EVERYTHING ELSE. Pay nothing in Steam, yet you get shitloads of stuff. Pay nothing in PSN, you get shitloads of stuff. Pay on XBL, get online play.
Pay Microsoft anything; get ripped off. You’re such an idiot.
Black Dahlia NZ
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 4:52 PMcrawl back under your rock troll, PS+ is a joke, why would anyone pay for the same crappy service when they can get it for free, im sure if you asked anyone who have played PSN and XBL (obviously you havent) they would all agree XBL is better, your just a blind biased fanboy
Pariah
Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 6:40 PMJust because I disagree with you doesn’t make me biased, stupid XBL fanboy.
You evidently don’t know what PS+ is, or what it’s for. The idea behind it is that users get a fair amount of bonus stuff, such as full games, discounts etc. for the duration of their subscription. Anything they buy at discount is theirs to keep. And then you gain stuff like online savedata backup (something you don’t have. u jelly?)
You gain that in addition to the essential basics, like online play, which You must pay for. That said, I find your choice of words to be quite interesting. Black Dahlia, why would You pay for a crappy service when you can get those features for free (on everything else but your poor excuse for a gaming platform)?
Yes, I have actually used Xbox Live, and I’m yet to find One good reason to pay for stuff I can get for free. Care to give me one? And no, having the opportunity to play adult games with little boys and girls does not count.
Pariah
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 4:08 PMSpeaking of getting what you pay for; why is XBL far less secure if you pay shitloads?
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/xbox-live-hacked-accounts-stolen/131
http://techmento.com/2011/06/18/xbox-live-hacked-60000-accounts-leaked/
And this happens regularly despite MS’s attempts.
PSN, on the other hand, has absolutely no hacks of any kind post-PSN-breach.
You’re partially right. You get the bullshit you pay for. We pay nothing; we get no bullshit. You get it monthly.
Black Dahlia NZ
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 2:13 PMhttp://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/10/somebodys-trying-to-break-into-your-psn-account-again/
Pariah
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 5:05 PMAnd notice that they got away with absolutely nothing. Unlike Xbox gamers. Two of my friends that game on Xbox Live had their accounts stolen quite recently. What does that say about your insecure platform?
Pariah
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 4:22 PMhttp://www.qj.net/xbox-360/news/2d-boy-indie-devs-moving-away-from-xbla.html
A Random Haruhiist
Friday, October 7, 2011 at 5:33 PMI must say I agree with Pariah here, why should you pay for something that is free in the first place? Furthermore, why should we have to watch it over the internet which would cost us more money for our downloads when we can just use PlayTV through a cable?
Also, PlayTV > Any Freeview built-in TV. I doubt the TV can record and even if it could it would need some sort of external storage.
Pariah
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 3:11 AM^ That. Thank you kind sir.
Black Dahlia NZ
Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 4:59 PMbut playtv isnt free either, your paying for xbox live anyway (well most people interested in this i’d imagine)
tv with built in freeview/recorder: http://www.trustedreviews.com/JVC-LT-32DE9BJ-32in-LCD-TV—PVR_TV_review
im pretty sure USA, UK have unlimited internet which wouldnt be an issue as most the channels for them anyway.
Pariah
Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 6:29 PMI know PlayTV isn’t free, but it’s pretty cheap, especially in comparison to what you just presented.
On that note, PlayTV is superior to the TV you presented, in that I’d rather just buy an addon, and then use my 500gb PS3 to playback and record on, rather than waste heaps of cash on another TV. Also, that’s disappointing? only 160gb?
What you presented is moot.
Pariah
Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 6:30 PMI know the concept of a “good addon” is hard for you to grasp, having had to put up with HD-DVD and all.