Freesat needs to get a move on with VOD !!!

[TheOne]

Sky have announced today that VOD will be available this autumn via Microsofts Xbox 360

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8070291.stm

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/a157419/sky-player-coming-to-the-xbox-360.html


Freesat need to get a move on, otherwise the appeal of Freesat will reduce i think.

[Chris]

Freesat's main appeal thus far has been HD, not VOD. I agree, they need to get a wriggle on and activate that ethernet connection, but I don't think the lack of it is going to drive people to Sky instead. Sky's competitor in this is Virgin.

Freesat is quite some way from providing a standard, platform-wide VOD service that all its affiliated broadcasters can use (IIRC the BBC's Kangaroo project may have gone some way towards fulfilling this need on Freesat, until the idiots at Ofcom killed it). BBC iPlayer will launch on Freesat later this year but this only provides BBC content. I'm not sure the commercial broadcasters have the resources to develop their own online catchup services to run inside Freesat boxes.

[Agent47]

this service will be dreadful on 360s connected to VM thanks to poor speeds and STM.

[Kymmy]

Never had any problems with VM speed..should be a good service, must see if I can reflash my mutant to take advantage of it all