@skeeuk

Agreed with both your posts.

@kowenicki
That was the response I got from an x360 fan***.

This of course has a lot to do with x360 and Sky deal.

True but that's like comparing whatever some cable/satellite company in America is called with say ABC?

Of course the satellite service is going to have much more content, especially if the broadcasts of ABC are on it :D

A straight comparison of actual sky branded channels, that'd be fine to compare with the BBC channels.

Take it that there was no subscription costs for Sky/BBC then IMO.

Sports - Sky, although only reason is for more live games-replays etc are much prefered from BBC personally but still Sky will take sports any day until the BBC aquires some form of live Premier Leauge football.

Movies - Sky, 8 or so dedicated channels for movies albeit a lot of replays if you've noticed(Forgot about SkyBoxOffice but I personally don't like it at all, yes it has films that have just came on DVD's for around around a month ago but it's certainly not worth paying for) vs 0 dedicated movie channels. Less choice, more olden films but imo on the hole of higher quality.

Music - Hmm, don't think anyone personally wins here.

Documentaries - BBC, seriously? What has Sky here... Yes they've got The History Channel etc but what do they produce?

Comedy - BBC, Mock the Week, Have I got News for you, QI, How Not to Live your Life and Coming of Age.

Drama - BBC, please don't tell me that sky will compete with BBC drama's :D

News - BBC, already talked about.

Care free to add opinions/more genre's etc if I've forgot any.

bbc news are very politically correct indeed

Hmm OK fair enough, but I find it kind of odd. Comparing some channels to a hole Satellite service...which includes the BBC which your comparing it with.

Would you compare Channel 4 with Freesat?

Haha well whoever said that - Stupid

I believe they only show whatever's been shown recently on TV and sometime if there's been a repeat they'll put up that up.

Most things are up for 30 days IIRC.

The reference was taking over the UK. This was explicit because in the UK it is by far the most popular service of this type. This was not necessarily due to that fact it is the most used player of its type but more of a reference to the number of devices it is integrated with. So in this regard the iPlayer is taking over the UK.

Lets not play chinese whispers. For more information on the iPlayer the Wiki on the topic pretty much covers it although they have yet to update with the latest addition of the PS3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_iPlayer

great news, I think its only a matter of time before we start seeing ESPN, NBC, CNN, etc. having their own embedded players on the XMB