Sky Player for the Xbox is looking increasingly likely to surface in October, with details about the service being offered in the latest Sky subscriber magazine.
Although neither Sky nor Microsoft is ready to confirm the arrival of the eagerly awaited application, the latest Sky magazine has opened the Heinz can and made messy with its contents.
Obviously for Xbox fans the arrival of the Sky Player is exciting on its own, but it could also bring with it the Facebook and Twitter updates that were shown off at E3 this summer.
Soft launch
To be fair to both Sky and Microsoft, they have never been firm about the date that the Sky player would arrive on the Xbox console – beyond saying that it would be this year.
The arrival of the social networking functionality is certainly likely to prove popular – whereas the Sky Player will be heavily dependant on pricing.
Having missed (by some margin) the beginning of the Premiership season, the offering is perhaps not as exciting as it could have been, but touches like avatar 'party' viewing and chat could yet make the service make an impact.
Via Digital Spy
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jonnyb227
October 6th
2. Love the idea of this I think that this is going to be the future of TV, I will defo have player on my X-box. There is a lot more info on here: http://www.sky.com/xbox360
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spirit
October 3rd
1. Bit pointless really...
You still have to pay the £10 month for sky multi-room so you might as well simply get sky multi-room properly or even better - just use a video sender or 'sky eye' type system.
...getting the local aerial guy to install with a point in every room would cost way less than the £120/year for multi-room plus box costs - and all without encoding lag, whoo!
Want to talk to your mates during a match? Get them round the house!
I'm sure enough Xbox kids will stupidly lap this up tho - just like having to pay via live gold for free services like twitter & facebook
It's just another revenue stream to part the dense from their cash...
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