kowenicki said:
SamuelRSmith said:
kitler53 said:
i'm not from the UK so let me know if this sounds correct. Sky is a cable TV provider and if you subscribe to their service at 50 pounds a month you can use this sky player on your 360 at no additional cost?
i don't have cable cause i don't particularly care for television especially at the price but this is certain a nice little perk for those that do. |
Sky is a Satellite-based service (hence the name), not cable. And packages run from £15-£50 a month (roughly).
Existing Sky customers get this service free with Xbox Love Gold, non-existing will have to pay £15 to get this service - which, imo, is the way forward as it's on-demand, unlike most of Sky's content (which I assume is down to technical limitations of being a satellite service).
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Not strictly true. It is on-demand but they also stream live channels for people with multiroom or sky broadband plus.
The big thing is also that it gives a way for Sky to get into living rooms where those living rooms are in a building where a satellite dish is not possible. Sky will promote this... you can bet they will be promoting 360 boxes on their site for people that cant get a dish.
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Hmmm, what about those who are HD and multi-room, but aren't officially multi-room. 
Is it streaming HD content? And can you use your 360 to store the content, a la Sky+?
