Microsoft will showcase the Xbox 360's IPTV service for the first time in Europe at The Connected Home Show at London's Olympia next month.
Ed Graczyk, Worldwide Director of Marketing and Communications for Microsoft TV will demonstrate the service during his keynote at the conference, specifically showcasing what happens when "next-generation television is combined with next-generation gaming in a unique, new service delivered by your broadband provider".
IPTV is expected to be available as early as Christmas 2007 in Europe, and telecom providers BT, Deutsche Telekom and T-Online in France have already chosen Microsoft IPTV Edition as their IPTV software choice.
"Separately the Xbox 360 and Microsoft TV IPTV Edition deliver unique and exciting entertainment experiences," Graczyk said, "but IPTV on Xbox 360 delivers a real value proposition for consumers, service providers and content and game developers alike. By integrating these industry-leading solutions, we continue to drive innovation and enable new connected entertainment experiences for consumers."
Ok great you can "drive the customer experience" blah blah blah, but eh...what exactly is it? Free tv channels via the 360? Good Quality? Low Bandwidth?
I'm rather terrified that some people who visit this site don't know what IPTV is.
Put simply, it's TV coming through your internet connection (Internet Protocol).
Go here. And then go here for a video of Microsoft's version running on 360.
Oh... and low bandwidth? You're kidding right? Not to mention how much data-transfer it involves. IPTV is not something for those with slow download speeds, download limits or 'fair use' policies.
I wish Microsoft would sort out their services already announced before going on about new ones. Where's the Video Marketplace? That's far more useful for us to get HD Films & TV shows onto our HDTV's.
I'm personally not interested in IPTV. I already get jerky streamed video in a small window on my PC so heaven knows how the internet will handle full size TV video. If loads of people start watching streamed video on the internet i bet the contention ratio's on the telephone lines start to drop the quality significantly. I already have a dual tuner Freeview box with a decent 160GB Hard drive in it. I also have a DVD recorder connected to this so that I can transfer TV programs that I want to keep to DVD. I'm not sure I could do this with the 360.
I'm personally not interested in IPTV. I already get jerky streamed video in a small window on my PC so heaven knows how the internet will handle full size TV video. If loads of people start watching streamed video on the internet i bet the contention ratio's on the telephone lines start to drop the quality significantly.
This is why i asked is it low bandwidth, i do have a very high speed, high download cap, but if everyones pulling from the same exchange how bad is performance gonna be. Not to mention the ripple effect on switches across the internet.
FYI AlexRat, you dont need large data sets for good quality. As long as they manage to extract all unnecessary data they might b able to keep good quality&low bandwidth
FYI AlexRat, you dont need large data sets for good quality. As long as they manage to extract all unnecessary data they might b able to keep good quality&low bandwidth
Any removal of data is a loss of quality. For even suitably low quality HD stream, you'd require a downstream of at'least' 5000Kbps (720p with only stereo sound) anything less than that and you're practically watching upscaled SDTV.
And yes, we know contention ratios are terrible in the UK. Didn't BT start some line upgrade in Cardiff recently that's slowly going to spread across the UK or something?
to be honest couldn't really give a monkeys about this. don't get to watch a great deal of telly anyhow. and what's on it is a big pile of steaming s**te.
my kids nick the remote and i'm stuck with nic jr all day, and then the wife has the same old crappy soaps on in the evening, so getting this would just be another excuse for her to watch the same old soap stories!
FYI AlexRat, you dont need large data sets for good quality. As long as they manage to extract all unnecessary data they might b able to keep good quality&low bandwidth
Any removal of data is a loss of quality. For even suitably low quality HD stream, you'd require a downstream of at'least' 5000Kbps (720p with only stereo sound) anything less than that and you're practically watching upscaled SDTV.
And yes, we know contention ratios are terrible in the UK. Didn't BT start some line upgrade in Cardiff recently that's slowly going to spread across the UK or something?
Oh ye obviously, i just meant that they shuda defo go for "upscaled SDTV" than wasting data on HD. Its only my films that ill ever wana watch in HD.
I only have cable tv cuz sky is a rip off for what u get, so a few more channels wudnt go astray!
Not true. There is such a thing as lossless compression, you know. Obviously it's not as efficient, but I'm amazed that someone who comes to this site and is amazed that people don't know what IPTV is doesn;t know that
I know when i worked at BT a few years ago they had a plan in place to switch the entire country across from copper on to the new fibre wire network, but i haven't heard any more about it since leaving.
Not true. There is such a thing as lossless compression, you know. Obviously it's not as efficient, but I'm amazed that someone who comes to this site and is amazed that people don't know what IPTV is doesn;t know that
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