Sky Player on the Xbox 360

**Matt D** · 01-10-2009, 23:41

The Xbox 360 version of the "Sky Player" is coming very soon.

http://www.sky.com/xbox360

Up to 22 Sky TV channels can be viewed live on your Xbox 360, plus there will also be on-demand content.

You can also use watch TV with Friends via XBL's Party Mode.

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Originally Posted by Sky

Live TV for Sky customers with a Sky Multiroom or Broadband Unlimited subscription is free or from £15–£41 a month for Non-Sky TV customers.
To watch Sky Player on your Xbox 360 you need an Xbox LIVE Gold membership.
Live TV channels depend on your subscription.
Price and availability of on-demand content depends on whether you are a Sky TV/Sky Player TV customer and the kind of subscription you have.

(snip)

Hom3r · 01-10-2009, 23:45

bandwidth

Capping to hell on VM

cimt · 01-10-2009, 23:46

Question. Say I had a subscription and I wanted to watch something with a friend over XBL. Would it work if he didn't have a Sky subscription?

**Matt D** · 01-10-2009, 23:49

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Originally Posted by Hom3r

bandwidth

Capping to hell on VM

Ah, I'm glad I have good ol' Sky BB with its Unlimited Usage, no Fair Use Policy, and no traffic shaping/throttling/management

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Quote:

Originally Posted by cimt

Question. Say I had a subscription and I wanted to watch something with a friend over XBL. Would it work if he didn't have a Sky subscription?

I doubt it.

You need either a Sky TV subscription, or a Sky Player subscription. They're hardly going to let people watch stuff if they have no Sky subscription of any kind.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sky

Live TV for Sky customers with a Sky Multiroom or Broadband Unlimited subscription is free or from £15–£41 a month for Non-Sky TV customers.

NoKnowledge · 02-10-2009, 00:02

Something they fail to mention on that page is the blackouts

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Not all programmes that are shown on Sky TV channels are available to watch live online. Parts of the schedule will be 'blacked out' until the rights are cleared and they are available to show online.

Sky Sports : WWE, non-live UEFA Champions League and HBO boxing events.

ESPN: Major League Baseball.

National Geographic Channel: Upcoming programmes include episodes of Warplanes and Underwater Dream Machine, Monster Lobster, Stonehenge Decoded, The Mystery of Zulu Dawn, Nuremberg, Battle of the Hood and The Bismarck.

Disney: No planned programmes in upcoming schedules.

Eurosport: No planned programmes in upcoming schedules.

MTV One : The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, Randy Jackson's Best Dance Crew, The Jerry Springer Hustle, My Super Sweet 16.

Nickelodeon : Space Goofs

Nick Jr : Thomas The Tank Engine, The Backyardigans, Barbie, Maggie And The Ferocious Beast, Bob The Builder, Rainbow, Trumpton, Chigley, Pic Me, Max And Ruby.

G.O.L.D. : Charlies Angels, New Statesman.

Nat Geo Wild : Giant Panda.

Eden : Portrait of Courage, Sex in the Bush.

Sky Real Lives : Airline, X-Weighted, Zoo Vet At Large, Don't Drop The Coffin, Sex Slaves, The Real Sex Traffic, Air Rage, Casino Cops, Petnapped, A Life Without Pain, Club Reps, The Heidi Fleiss Story, Male 33 Seeks Puberty, Girls Behaving Badly, The Zoo, Invasion Of the Body Scratchers, The Filth Files, Wedding Days, Hotel Sex. Sex addict, Real Desperate Housewives.

**Matt D** · 27-10-2009, 13:31

Well, it was due to launch today.

And it did... only to then vanish from the NXE after people had problems actually logging in & using it

Being "worked on" apparently

webcrawler2050 · 28-10-2009, 14:51

I've had the update - but I got nothing new - I am being stupid? LOL

Raistlin · 28-10-2009, 14:54

Well.....

I was watching Sky Player through the Internet, as part of my standard Sky subscription, but since they opened it up to you xBox ruffians it's been just about unwatchable.

Slow, constantly buffereing, sometimes losing connections.....just like being back at work

webcrawler2050 · 28-10-2009, 14:55

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Originally Posted by Rob M

Well.....

I was watching Sky Player through the Internet, as part of my standard Sky subscription, but since they opened it up to you xBox ruffians it's been just about unwatchable.

Slow, constantly buffereing, sometimes losing connections.....just like being back at work

Where is it? LOL

SnoopZ · 28-10-2009, 14:58

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Microsoft has said that it is "investigating" the technical problems delaying the launch of Sky Player on Xbox Live.

Offering live and on-demand content, the service was initially scheduled to go live at 10am this morning.
However, there have been widespread reports that clicking on the Sky Player icon currently available on Xbox Live simply brings up a rolling advert for the service and a message which says, "Coming later today".

Update: Microsoft has confirmed that the Sky Player service has now been removed from Xbox Live but will hopefully launch tomorrow (today)

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/n...xbox-live.html

dilligaf1701 · 28-10-2009, 14:58

I just put my xbox on to watch a dvd and it tells me there is an update. It's downloading it now, slowly.... very slowly

Maybe it's the player.

webcrawler2050 · 28-10-2009, 14:59

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Originally Posted by Thomas T

I just put my xbox on to watch a dvd and it tells me there is an update. It's downloading it now, slowly.... very slowly

Maybe it's the player.

WOuldn't bank on it - I just put a film in for my little en and theres nothing there..

icestar2 · 28-10-2009, 16:14

Maybe this will help.

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While the Xbox 360 Sky Player apparently launched in the UK yesterday as planned, things veered away from the plan almost immediately thereafter. The service was "suspended" shortly after launch, for what must be the best possible problem in Microsoft's eyes: too many subscribers.

"Unfortunately due to the unprecedented levels of simultaneous demand," a statement on Xbox.com reads, "we did not have the capacity to satisfy all service requests and therefore temporarily suspended all access to the service." The service is being reinstated in phases today, presumably with some upgrades in place to deal with the demand.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/28/xb...-phases-today/

webcrawler2050 · 28-10-2009, 17:05

Not Exactly a good start

**Matt D** · 28-10-2009, 21:17

The update which some people have had is nothing to do with the Sky Player: it is purely to give WPA2 support for the official WiFi adapter.

The Sky Player did start being offered for download again today, in phases. I got it, at last, earlier this evening.

However, like yesterday, it seems to have collapsed under the strain