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Report: Live TV Coming To The Xbox 360

Xbox 360 users in the U.S and Canada will get something similar to Europe’s Sky TV but it gets even more interesting. Our source told us that the Xbox 360 will be used as a digital television set-top box with PVR capabilities in Canada by an important telecommunication company. While we know the name of the company behind this project in Canada, we haven’t been able to get official confirmation on who will offer the same service in the United States.

A few weeks ago, rumours of a possible Xbox Live TV channel emerged on the web but it seems that this new service will go beyond “just one channel”. We are talking about a complete list of TV channels in high definition. In other words, it’s like putting Netflix, Zune Marketplace and Sky TV all in one place.

We expect to have more details in the upcoming weeks since the US/Canada deal has already been signed.

Could Microsoft reveal the whole thing at this year’s E3? We believe so.

Rumor isn't too far out there.  Should be interesting.  Cable TV is becoming less and less necessary for me.

Suprising: No. Awesome: Yes!!.

I expect now that there'll be an Xbox Live Platinum service which you'll be paying monthly if this is true

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this sounds nice though

Can anyone even think of a US company that offers a service remotely similar to Sky TV for Microsoft to partner with?

any cable or satelite company, like Time Warner, Comcast, Dish TV, Direct TV, Verizon, and so on. From what I gather Sky TV is just satelite TV unless they do something special.

anyways, meh, as most companies give away 1 free DVR already and I doubt this will be any cheaper than buying the service directly. Cool if you have an X360 and want to integrate everything.

Do any of them offer live TV streaming over the internet?

http://www.fancast.com/

It is a Comcast offering.

First off, why do they have to support that before joining up with Microsoft?

Secondly, that isn't even the dificult part. The dificult part is getting all the content liscensed so you can show it. Putting it over the internet with Microsoft's Silverlight and some additional code to service the information is the easy part cause Microsoft already did everything for you. All Microsoft needed to partner with someone is people who already have access to the content. It's sorta like how they brought Netflix. Sending to the X360 was the easy part, Netflix working all the deals with the studios is the hard part.

Obviously a lot of this is speculation, so I'll leave it at that. Now, if they offer TV cheaper than via Cable or Satelite, then it might be interesting, but I'll have to see that to believe it.

Do any of them offer live TV streaming over the internet?

I think he's saying that because in the UK, the Sky TV on xbox is Sky Player, which is internet streams on PC, and it uses the same streams. Its just a NXE style app whats different.