Thursday 6 October 2011

Xbox Launching TV/Entertainment service

                               

Xbox have announced they will be releasing a new entertainment service available around christmas time. UK 360 owners will be able to use a variety of on-demand services such as 4oD, BBC iPlayer and Channel 5, as well as services such as LoveFilm. The service will be operated mainly by microsofts Bing search engine in order to find content, as well as some services offering voice search via Xbox's Kinect. Some services however are subject to regions, the UK will be able to access the following: AlloCiné, Crackle, Muzu.TV, MSN, MSNBC.com, VEVO and YouTube. BSkyB, Last.fm, Zune. Twitter and Facebook are already integrated into the Xbox 360 dashboard. This is a clear challenge from Microsoft to the PlayStation 3, as both are in a battle to be the best console for "home entertainment living".

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