Microsoft's announced live TV, YouTube and Bing for Xbox Live, as it promises it will increase the amount of content on the service "by a factor of ten" this year.
"You say it, Xbox finds it," the platform holder said at the Xbox E3 press conference, revealing that its 360 search engine will find content on Netflix, Hulu Plus, Xbox Live Marketplace and "other content providers" via voice command.
Also this year, Microsoft is teaming up with Ultimate Fighting Championship to bring live matches, classic fights and interviews to Xbox Live, it said.
"This is an incredible time of growth and innovation for our business leveraging technologies that see us, hear us and connect us all together," said Don Mattrick, president of the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft. "This year by bringing together the power of Kinect for Xbox 360 and the intelligence of Bing, we are transforming how people enjoy entertainment."
YouTube, Bing and Live TV will come via a Dashboard update this autumn.
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Mandatory Grape on 6 Jun '11 said:
b-b-bing! OH YEA! sux 2 be using der ps3.
I thought they already had live TV with the sky player?
shiwayb on 6 Jun '11 said:
Proper YouTube Support is gooooood!
Hopefully it supports Full HD Videos
Megatrons_Fury on 6 Jun '11 said:
Hmmmmm
I don't think so.
If anyone can tell me what this has to do with having a games console i would love to know, Theres no way this will work properly and the whole presentation was just filled with buzz words and grand expanses upon simple concepts.
Not at all impressed by this microsoft presentation,I was hoping for something more than sequels upon sequels and on rails Kinect childrens games.
Better get a big blanket because it's a cold cold year instore.
altitude2k on 6 Jun '11 said:
It's called E3 for a reason. Electronic Entertainment Expo. It's not EGE and it never has been.
Noobsaibot on 6 Jun '11 said:
We've had live TV for a while but nothing in the US so far. I watched it all and I don't recall hearing Youtube being mentioned.
shiwayb on 6 Jun '11 said:
Wait, you missed the huge YouTube logo and the "coming to Xbox 360?"
o_O
Coulson1990 on 6 Jun '11 said:
Love the fact xmen first class on was on there. Pirate Microsoft!
shiwayb on 6 Jun '11 said:
Erm, Trailer Perhaps?
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Padua on 6 Jun '11 said:
I might finally be tempted to buy a 360 because of Kinect TV integration alone... ok and because of Kinect Sesame Street
It always had the makings for the best TV remote ever. I expect to see Kinect being built into TV sets in a few years.
Not so sure about voice commands though. I have tried voice search several times on my cellphone with Google.
When it works its stunning... although when it doesn't it is spectacularly bad.
"XBOX BING THEASAURUS"
? "Did you mean: TYRANNOSAURUS?"
jtthegame on 6 Jun '11 said:
you tube will make a nice extra. most my time on the xbox is games i do use things like sky player so it is good they are bring more and more features to xbox.
Houdini Splicer on 6 Jun '11 said:
Youtube is good, i wish there was a dedicated youtube program for my ps3, instead of having to use the web browser, the live tv also sounds good, mind you, * its pretty useless if you already have freeview built in to your tv and even worse if you have cable tv in the same room as your xbox, but it's still good to have nonetheless
*edit: unless it has more choice of channels than you can get on freeview.
ThePriceisRight on 6 Jun '11 said:
"Youtube is good, i wish there was a dedicated youtube program for my ps3 "
There is a you tube app for ps3.
simsc3 on 6 Jun '11 said:
This is one way to watch Channel5 and C4 shows on my xbox... Now only if the BBC was on you tube...IF ONLY????
Barca Azul on 6 Jun '11 said:
I've got youtube on the PS3.
Bing sucks big time though, but does that mean it will have a browser now? That's good.
Borrowed some more idea's from Sony then. All good for everyone.
jinjos on 6 Jun '11 said:
got sky to watch tv and pc for youtube. weres the games microsoft?