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bobobologna on 29 April 2010
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nordlead said:
bobobologna said:
nordlead said:

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?

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.

I'm just curious because it seems like an odd place to announce something like this.  I could see this being announced at CES, but E3?

I mean, do you really think that if a company were going to announce live TV streaming over the internet, do you really think that they would save it for Microsoft's E3 press conference?