All hail the Sky Player for Xbox. As well as being a video-on-demand system online, Sky Player has been streaming live channels for over a year to PC users, and Sky Player for Xbox tries to replicate that experience on a games console.
It's a nice idea – and it effortlessly makes the best possible use of the Xbox 360's luscious new interface to create a service that's lots of fun to use.
It's expensive to non-Sky subscribers though and certainly a niche product in the mass market, but for Sky converts it's essentially a VoD solution for the home (or a second home) that beats Sky Anytime hands-down.
The look and feel of the interface is stunning. 'Xboxy' is the only way to describe it; sweeping between the icons for live channels, VoD content and movie listings is familiar and effortless.
There's no way to personalise the service and it doesn't make recommendations about content it might think you like, but it's so easy to use and the on-screen menus are mostly lightning quick.
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mushi_mush
July 6th 2010
3. in my opinion xbox interface is not nice at all. Too childish. And yes, why they keep adding bad quality players? Just to make it look as you see - we have now sky player. Image is awful, as frankly everything on xbox.
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agentcool
November 20th 2009
2. It would be great if it ran at 50Hz but it doesn't so, like the iPlayer on PS3, it's a stuttering mess.
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healeydave
November 18th 2009
1. Too expensive, and quite frankly if you already subscribe to sky you have a perfectly good digibox already without any speed issues which keeps your bandwidth free to download stuff elsewhere that Sky doesn't provide!!
Why saturate your bandwidth for something you can already get through your satellite service!?!?!
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