Television on your Xbox 360 by the end of the year…

[NEONKNIGHT]

Xbox 360 IPTV details emerge

.......more tidbits of information have slipped out of the company’s keynote in Las Vegas.

The big news? Expect IPTV before the year is out – and never expect to move from your sofa ever again...

"Our goal is to make entertainment more personal, more interactive and more social," Comments Robbie Bach. "IPTV on Xbox 360 and Xbox Live are powerful examples of ways we are bringing together the worlds of gaming, TV viewing and community to make it easy for people to access and discover their favorite content and share their personal experiences with the communities they are part of." Imagine a logical evolution of your current Xbox Live gaming, only now you will be able to record a football match in the background whilst pwning friends on Halo 3, or watching the latest series of 24 in one multi-episode block because you love it so much. And it’s coming sooner than you think; Microsoft are hoping to get the service as part of your Xbox 360 Dashboard by Christmas this year.

The linchpin in all this? The five service providers that Microsoft is working with to distribute that content across the globe. While eleven other companies are still in the trial period, Microsoft is is focusing on kickstarting the service across 14 countries on four continents with this initial batch of five with others to follow suit in due course. We’re still awaiting confirmation as to the provider for this country, but current internet speculation is pointing towards telephone giant BT.

Source: http://www.oxm.co.uk/articles/news/h...details_emerge

[SnoopZ]

I wonder if NTL will allow it over their network? Anyone have any idea if NTL's 10mbit broadband is quick enough for a service like this?

[NEONKNIGHT]

Screen shots :-

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...icle&id=168205

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...icle&id=168204

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...icle&id=168203

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...icle&id=168202

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...icle&id=168201

[Matt D]

Interesting


But how long 'till we get it here........

[SnoopZ]

Originally Posted by Matt D

Interesting


But how long 'till we get it here........

And how much will it cost!

[Uncle Peter]

BT reckon they'll be doing basic IPTV over a 1.5Mb connection. That'll probably equate to the same resolution as a mobile phone video

[keithwalton]

freeview tends to use around 3mbit per channel in mpeg2 form, using somthing far more efficent like xvid or x264 you could equal freeview qualitly with as little as 1mbit/s however getting it streamable would be a challenge, for high quality tv encodes it used to be a rule of thumb that 10meg/s min was just more than enough to encode freeview into xvid no visible change to quality. Thats 1.33mbit incl audio.

hdtv on the other hand requires a fair bit more data, 720p using x264 can be encoded nicely with only 6mbit/s of data.