The Future of TV Begins Now on Xbox 360

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A revolution is happening in the living room. Xbox 360 is transforming how you enjoy TV entertainment and is giving you the power to control it with your voice. The next generation of TV entertainment begins with the announcement by Microsoft Corp. of the launch of an all-new Xbox 360 experience including the first group of new, custom applications from world leading TV and entertainment content providers on Xbox LIVE.
 
Too bad Cox Communications isn't on that list anywhere... I will be sure to send my ISP a nasty letter or two.
 
Yay! We can be even lazier!

The final push to eliminate the horrors of pushing buttons.
 
Does the Live subscription cover the costs of all of these extra content channels or are customers going to be nickle and dimed? I have an HTPC so its worthless for me but I wish they could just tie everything together in a simple package with a low monthly bill.
 
How much longer til interactive porn? I can't wait to squeeze some kinectitties.
 
NobleX13 said:
Too bad Cox Communications isn't on that list anywhere... I will be sure to send my ISP a nasty letter or two.
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Yeah they are really pissing me off. No espn and other gimmes are not avail and now this. Pay too much to be denied. Getting close to convincing my wife to go internet only finally. I get most of my channels via OTA and internet now but she is old school clicky clicky.
 
spaceman said:
Yeah they are really pissing me off. No espn and other gimmes are not avail and now this. Pay too much to be denied. Getting close to convincing my wife to go internet only finally. I get most of my channels via OTA and internet now but she is old school clicky clicky.
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Dude I am in the same boat been trying to get my wife to ditch cable but we always go back to it so she can DVR shows instead of looking them up online and watching them...oh well one day.
 
I have seen the future of television, and it is a vast tepid wasteland of reality judging shows. Giving the unwashed masses voice control of their TVs will be something like the roaring of the crowds in the Roman Coliseum urging the Emperor whether or not to let the losing gladiator dance, sing, talk, babble, sit around in a house, eat coconuts on an island, or screw another day.

And y'all are welcome to it. Me, I will just watch my Gilligan's Island reruns and harken back to the day when television MEANT something!
 
evilsofa said:
I have seen the future of television, and it is a vast tepid wasteland of reality judging shows. Giving the unwashed masses voice control of their TVs will be something like the roaring of the crowds in the Roman Coliseum urging the Emperor whether or not to let the losing gladiator dance, sing, talk, babble, sit around in a house, eat coconuts on an island, or screw another day.

And y'all are welcome to it. Me, I will just watch my Gilligan's Island reruns and harken back to the day when television MEANT something!
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Just as much as reality television has taken off, so has the quality of standard TV shows. I watch around 15 TV shows and none of them Reality television. Shows like Lost, 24, and even the first season of Prison Break set a tone in the mid 2000's that if you create a well written show and hire good actors and good production values you could still attract viewers.

There was a time in the late 90's and early 2000's where if it wasn't a 30 minute sitcom them you were doing it wrong. Now the sitcom's are nearly dead. Now drama, mystery, and Sci-fi TV's shows have a chance and some of what they are doing is better then most of what I see in the theaters.
 
This really doesn't look like it's that big of a deal. It looks more like Microsoft is "newly" touting features that the PS3 already has (for the most part), aside from voice commands. ::shrug:: Not hating. I was just expecting more.
 
so Even more stuff I can't use being thrown in as a "feature" of paying 59.99 a year just to have access to netflix.
 
NobleX13 said:
Too bad Cox Communications isn't on that list anywhere... I will be sure to send my ISP a nasty letter or two.
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I'm in the same boat... I'm not fond of Cox after they placed a data usage limit on my 25~30Mbps connection. They haven't been very amicable as of late with their "customer oriented business".
 
LordCalin said:
so Even more stuff I can't use being thrown in as a "feature" of paying 59.99 a year just to have access to netflix.
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I just recently got my first xbox 360, but I feel the need to point out that if your paying $59.99 for Live Gold then your doing it wrong.

Not only do various retailers, online and B&M, offering it at a discount on a fairly regular basis but MS itself often offers it for as little as $35 for a year.
 
DarkStar_WNY said:
I just recently got my first xbox 360, but I feel the need to point out that if your paying $59.99 for Live Gold then your doing it wrong.

Not only do various retailers, online and B&M, offering it at a discount on a fairly regular basis but MS itself often offers it for as little as $35 for a year.
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depends on your region, sometimes here we can get it for 49.99 but I've never seen it offered for $35 yet. The most they offer in our region, is 1 or 2 months for $1 if your not already signed up.
 
“Microsoft has just built and delivered it: A single box that ties together all the content you want, made easily accessible through a universal, natural, voice-directed search. This is now the benchmark against which all other living room initiatives should be compared,”
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Get back to me when it has native support for MKV files and we'll talk...
 
evilsofa said:
I have seen the future of television, and it is a vast tepid wasteland of reality judging shows. Giving the unwashed masses voice control of their TVs will be something like the roaring of the crowds in the Roman Coliseum urging the Emperor whether or not to let the losing gladiator dance, sing, talk, babble, sit around in a house, eat coconuts on an island, or screw another day.

And y'all are welcome to it. Me, I will just watch my Gilligan's Island reruns and harken back to the day when television MEANT something!
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roflz..and so true.. although SCI Fi, Discovery, History still have view able stuff... but all the bs as described above..eww
 
If they want to do this right, they'll need to bundle all of the content fees into the live subscription cost. It will then justify a live account to me since I wouldn't use it for anything else.

I can see it now, though --

You're watching tv. Commercial pops up demonstrating it. Kid in the commercial says, "Kinect, watch pokemon" and all of a sudden pokemon is playing all over the world.
 
Topweasel said:
There was a time in the late 90's and early 2000's where if it wasn't a 30 minute sitcom them you were doing it wrong. Now the sitcom's are nearly dead. Now drama, mystery, and Sci-fi TV's shows have a chance and some of what they are doing is better then most of what I see in the theaters.
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This... really wasn't the case, and isn't the case. There were lots of 1-hr (42 minute) hospital and courtroom dramas that co-owned TV. Law & Order, NYPD Blue, ER, The Practice, X-Files, Ally McBeal, CSI... Walker, Texas Ranger and Nash Bridges :D

And there are sitcoms now like Two and a Half Men, Modern Family, The Office, Curb... Ron Swanson is a folk hero.
 
I like the direction, but it still requires a few things.

I don't want to type in what I am looking for, nor do I want to sit there and talk to my TV. Give me the ability to use a remote control and channel surf and I am nearly sold.

Give me the ability to Surf my local channels as well as Discovery, Nat Geo, Disney, Nick, Cartoon Network, Travel, TruTV and a small handful of other non premium channels and then and only then will I consider the Live subscription even remotely valuable. If I have that then I can happily cancel my Cable TV sub and only pay for cable internet and will be a pretty happy camper. Then I can continue using Netflix and Blockbuster to fill my movies/Tv Series and all in all that is a remarkable setup. Until then it is just another novelty htpc type setup that is frankly more trouble than it is worth unless you watch specific shows every day which my family does not.
 
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