An IPTV service for Xbox 360 was alluded to in a 2007 CES keynote, but it's been quiet on that front ever since. What's the deal? If you're British, you might be in luck!

At CES 2009, Microsoft Mediaroom PR reps, while doing their little spin dance, did manage to let slip that "multiple carrier field trials" were, in fact, in progress. When questioned specifically about the U.S. market, PR did their thing and asked the questioner to go bug someone else. In this case, AT&T, presumably because the carrier was considering the platform or it is in the running to support it in the U.S. with U-verse.

As for the U.K., IPTV on an Xbox 360 looks a little more certain in 2009 than for other markets.

Lucky Brits!

Interesting.

More explanation, because this hasn't exactly been too informative for me >_>

Microsoft has had it running, but it's not a user end piece of software... it's for businesses who want to use the 360 for IPTV

What is iptv is it like sky tv say?

I gather it's like netflix but for watching live TV channels.

@ nj5
sounds like it might be good so.

I knew they were doing this! (Even though I never saw any confirmation)

I said over a year ago that they will use the Xbox 360 for a set top box for Sky TV etc.

Yay!

I bet it ends up like BT Vision and requires that you use BT Broadband, which would suck as I have no intention of switching my ISP. I'll have to stick with TunerFree MCE for the moment.

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