CES: Microsoft signs XBox Live content agreements

[B3D News]

Microsoft has announced that it will be expanding the video offerings available through the XBox Live Marketplace to include content from newly signed partners ABC/Disney Channel and MGM studios.

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[PARANOiA]

Good for America, but what about the rest of the world?

And by that I of course mean Australia

 

[Dave Baumann]

Curiously, it looks like UK will be getting IPTV first (at least, it sounds like a UK provider was the first to sign).

 

[AzBat]

Curiously, it looks like UK will be getting IPTV first (at least, it sounds like a UK provider was the first to sign).

I read that AT&T will be in trials later this year in a few cities. It will be interesting to see who will be first. Seen the demo?

http://news.punchjump.com/blog/2008/01/08/ces-2008-video-xbox-360-with-mediaroom-demo/

Tommy McClain

 

[AntShaw]

Nothing too curious, here in Chicago (or more accurately Illinois) Comcast, the cable provider, has made many attempts to stall AT&Ts roll out of IPTV. They keep trying to get them classified as a cable provider and the current method, before the courts I believe, is that AT&T has to go city by city or county by county to ask permission to upgrade or run lines and drop boxes...

It's a shame too. They have been trying to stall so they can get that new Cisco backbone in with 100mbs+ speeds. Compound that with new live content and you have a hit. When you can get full 720p/1080p(if they ever offer) movies in less then 5 minutes...

With that said, the IPTV functionality seems great!