Microsoft has announced a new Xbox Companion app for Windows Phone devices, which will lets you find, learn more about and control content from Xbox Live Marketplace on your Xbox 360.
- Finding Content: Just like on your Xbox, the Xbox Companion gives you instant access to the Xbox LIVE Marketplace catalog of games, movies, music and TV shows. I used it to search "Featured Content" and pulled up the X-Men: First Class.
- Learn more about what you're watching, listening to, or playing: Once I found the movie and touched the movie tile, the Xbox companion app took me to an info page that has all the related details about. And the content is really rich, too - for example, when I swiped to the "cast" page and touched an actor's name, like star James McAvoy, I was taken to other movies starring him. From there, I could easily learn more about the other movies, their cast, etc. It's an infinite road of interactive content.
- Control & Play: Once I selected the content and hit play, the Xbox Companion flips into "controller mode" in which I could navigate my Xbox, or control video playback of your video. The best part here is that controls are virtually instantaneous - easily as fast as using my controller or a TV remote.
Microsoft said this week that 40 new media content partners will launch their services on Xbox 360 before Christmas, heralding "a new era in television".
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jtthegame on 6 Oct '11 said:
cool. i am gonna up grade to windows phone 7
Drusus on 6 Oct '11 said:
pfft...... wake me up when I can control it with my ears or failing that, kisses.
IbanezLewis on 6 Oct '11 said:
This isn't enough to sway me to Windows Phone, not by a long shot. Hopefully they'll be an unofficial Android app that might do the same things.