Story in yesterday's New York Times, and no mention at all of a "certain someone". 
Later this month, Microsoft will begin adding dozens of other sources of programming to the service, including Verizon FiOS, Comcast’s Xfinity and HBO. On Tuesday, the few online video services that have been on Xbox Live for some time, including Netflix and Hulu Plus, will be able to be retrieved using voice searching and other methods.
Microsoft’s deal with cable and content providers stops short of making it possible for people to ditch their traditional pay-television packages; people will still need to pay the cable providers to get channels through the Xbox. They will also have to pay the roughly $60 a year Microsoft typically charges for a premier membership to Xbox Live.
And the Xbox won’t be a true substitute for everything viewers can get through their cable boxes because content rights will have to be negotiated for some shows before they can be watched through the console.
....And this wasn't an article dealing only with the Northeast, so how come no mention of Uverse?
Microsoft have a little falling out with AT&T?
americangame wrote:
Logical_Dolphin wrote:
spd2demun wrote:This sure makes it sound like we will see voice-controlled TV using Kinect, on UV...soon? I wonder who on here is beta testing for UV?
edit--forgot to ask, do you think they'll be making an app for iPhone or Android?
...Microsoft has also developed a free companion app for Windows Phone users that can be used as a remote and enables people to browse and launch shows, movies, games and music from their smartphone; see friend activity; purchase media; and navigate the Xbox console. The app launches on December 6.
I doubt that Microsoft will be making an iPhone or Android App (at least not right away), since they are trying to promote their own Windows mobile platform.
Microsoft already made a simular app for the Windows phone last year to integrate with their Mediaroom platform, but at&t made their own app for iPhone that allowed you to program your DVR and watch a selection of TV shows, and there are new apps like BuddyTV that allows you to use your iphone as a remote control that can control the Uverse DVR or any Uverse STB, including Xbox...
Microsoft made an app for Mediaroom for Windows Phone? If they did they never released it onto the marketplace for anyone to use. AT&T has a U-Verse app on the marketplace that work similart ot the early version of the U-Verse app for the iPhone.
I believe that they did make one (for Windows Phone 7) , but I think they would need at&t's cooperation to use it. at&t wisely chose to make their own app for the iphone instead...
jbdet313 wrote:Story in yesterday's New York Times, and no mention at all of a "certain someone".
Later this month, Microsoft will begin adding dozens of other sources of programming to the service, including Verizon FiOS, Comcast’s Xfinity and HBO. On Tuesday, the few online video services that have been on Xbox Live for some time, including Netflix and Hulu Plus, will be able to be retrieved using voice searching and other methods.
Microsoft’s deal with cable and content providers stops short of making it possible for people to ditch their traditional pay-television packages; people will still need to pay the cable providers to get channels through the Xbox. They will also have to pay the roughly $60 a year Microsoft typically charges for a premier membership to Xbox Live.
And the Xbox won’t be a true substitute for everything viewers can get through their cable boxes because content rights will have to be negotiated for some shows before they can be watched through the console.
....And this wasn't an article dealing only with the Northeast, so how come no mention of Uverse?
Microsoft have a little falling out with AT&T?
I think what is going on is that Microsoft wants to court Comcast and Verizon to start getting Microsoft equipment integerated into their service. There is no need to do that with at&t, since they are already in the fold.
Live TV on Comcast is just On demand content and only selected channels with Verizon. However it seems to be fully integrated with the new dashboard and available instantly, unlike Uverse which requires a separate app to be launched to watch any TV content.
Since Uverse application is more full featured, IMO it will take considerably more work (and testing) to get it to work and integrate with the new dashboard like Comcast and Verizon, as well as using Kinect for motion and voice commands. Since Microsoft nor at&t has said or showed anything lately, this leads me to believe it won't be ready until sometime next year...
Logical_Dolphin wrote:
jbdet313 wrote:Story in yesterday's New York Times, and no mention at all of a "certain someone".
Later this month, Microsoft will begin adding dozens of other sources of programming to the service, including Verizon FiOS, Comcast’s Xfinity and HBO. On Tuesday, the few online video services that have been on Xbox Live for some time, including Netflix and Hulu Plus, will be able to be retrieved using voice searching and other methods.
Microsoft’s deal with cable and content providers stops short of making it possible for people to ditch their traditional pay-television packages; people will still need to pay the cable providers to get channels through the Xbox. They will also have to pay the roughly $60 a year Microsoft typically charges for a premier membership to Xbox Live.
And the Xbox won’t be a true substitute for everything viewers can get through their cable boxes because content rights will have to be negotiated for some shows before they can be watched through the console.
....And this wasn't an article dealing only with the Northeast, so how come no mention of Uverse?
Microsoft have a little falling out with AT&T?
I think what is going on is that Microsoft wants to court Comcast and Verizon to start getting Microsoft equipment integerated into their service. There is no need to do that with at&t, since they are already in the fold.
Live TV on Comcast is just On demand content and only selected channels with Verizon. However it seems to be fully integrated with the new dashboard and available instantly, unlike Uverse which requires a separate app to be launched to watch any TV content.
Since Uverse application is more full featured, IMO it will take considerably more work (and testing) to get it to work and integrate with the new dashboard like Comcast and Verizon, as well as using Kinect for motion and voice commands. Since Microsoft nor at&t has said or showed anything lately, this leads me to believe it won't be ready until sometime next year...
I agree and disagree with you. I think that once the Gold requirement is kicked in, that is when we will see the Kinect features and full integration that Microsoft has been describing. Since we got the postcard back in October saying that this should/would be kicking off in November I'm under the impression that the features will come at the same time as those with Verizon's integration.
americangame wrote:
Logical_Dolphin wrote:
jbdet313 wrote:Story in yesterday's New York Times, and no mention at all of a "certain someone".
Later this month, Microsoft will begin adding dozens of other sources of programming to the service, including Verizon FiOS, Comcast’s Xfinity and HBO. On Tuesday, the few online video services that have been on Xbox Live for some time, including Netflix and Hulu Plus, will be able to be retrieved using voice searching and other methods.
Microsoft’s deal with cable and content providers stops short of making it possible for people to ditch their traditional pay-television packages; people will still need to pay the cable providers to get channels through the Xbox. They will also have to pay the roughly $60 a year Microsoft typically charges for a premier membership to Xbox Live.
And the Xbox won’t be a true substitute for everything viewers can get through their cable boxes because content rights will have to be negotiated for some shows before they can be watched through the console.
....And this wasn't an article dealing only with the Northeast, so how come no mention of Uverse?
Microsoft have a little falling out with AT&T?
I think what is going on is that Microsoft wants to court Comcast and Verizon to start getting Microsoft equipment integerated into their service. There is no need to do that with at&t, since they are already in the fold.
Live TV on Comcast is just On demand content and only selected channels with Verizon. However it seems to be fully integrated with the new dashboard and available instantly, unlike Uverse which requires a separate app to be launched to watch any TV content.
Since Uverse application is more full featured, IMO it will take considerably more work (and testing) to get it to work and integrate with the new dashboard like Comcast and Verizon, as well as using Kinect for motion and voice commands. Since Microsoft nor at&t has said or showed anything lately, this leads me to believe it won't be ready until sometime next year...
I agree and disagree with you. I think that once the Gold requirement is kicked in, that is when we will see the Kinect features and full integration that Microsoft has been describing. Since we got the postcard back in October saying that this should/would be kicking off in November I'm under the impression that the features will come at the same time as those with Verizon's integration.
IMO Verizon's and at&t's implementation of the new dashboard are mutually exclusive, especially since the underlying technologies are different. From my understanding Verizon and Comcast aren't using Mediahome technology at all, since it doesn't integrate with the DVR like Uverse does. I'm surprised that Comcast version isn't launching first since it only involves on demand program, and not Live TV.
at&t was listed as a content partner back in a Microsoft press release back in October, but it wasn't listed in the latest ones. Current content partners like Netflix, Hulu, and ESPN were mentioned, but not at&t.
As far as the postcard goes, it certainly makes it look like they have a firm timeline. But the fact that they have suspended sales on new Xbox kits (without an approximate date when it will resume) and aren't previewing the new technology (like we have seen from Verizon and Comcast), still leads me to believe that at&t's version isn't ready yet. Once we see those trends reverse, I think that will be a better indication when it should actually come out.
americangame wrote:
Logical_Dolphin wrote:
jbdet313 wrote:Story in yesterday's New York Times, and no mention at all of a "certain someone".
Later this month, Microsoft will begin adding dozens of other sources of programming to the service, including Verizon FiOS, Comcast’s Xfinity and HBO. On Tuesday, the few online video services that have been on Xbox Live for some time, including Netflix and Hulu Plus, will be able to be retrieved using voice searching and other methods.
Microsoft’s deal with cable and content providers stops short of making it possible for people to ditch their traditional pay-television packages; people will still need to pay the cable providers to get channels through the Xbox. They will also have to pay the roughly $60 a year Microsoft typically charges for a premier membership to Xbox Live.
And the Xbox won’t be a true substitute for everything viewers can get through their cable boxes because content rights will have to be negotiated for some shows before they can be watched through the console.
....And this wasn't an article dealing only with the Northeast, so how come no mention of Uverse?
Microsoft have a little falling out with AT&T?
I think what is going on is that Microsoft wants to court Comcast and Verizon to start getting Microsoft equipment integerated into their service. There is no need to do that with at&t, since they are already in the fold.
Live TV on Comcast is just On demand content and only selected channels with Verizon. However it seems to be fully integrated with the new dashboard and available instantly, unlike Uverse which requires a separate app to be launched to watch any TV content.
Since Uverse application is more full featured, IMO it will take considerably more work (and testing) to get it to work and integrate with the new dashboard like Comcast and Verizon, as well as using Kinect for motion and voice commands. Since Microsoft nor at&t has said or showed anything lately, this leads me to believe it won't be ready until sometime next year...
I agree and disagree with you. I think that once the Gold requirement is kicked in, that is when we will see the Kinect features and full integration that Microsoft has been describing. Since we got the postcard back in October saying that this should/would be kicking off in November I'm under the impression that the features will come at the same time as those with Verizon's integration.
According to Major Nelson's website, the Verizion Update is Live:
http://majornelson.com/2011/12/13/new-apps-now-ava
Microsoft is the one who really dropped the ball on this, IMHO. After all, it's AT&T's infrastructure, but it's running MICROSOFT's product. AT&T didn't come up with Mediaroom -- and that's what we're basically talking about communicating between AT&T and a customer's XBox. Oh, and, did all of you XBox users send a nice "Thank You" card to Microsoft for their decision to show you ADS on your subscription-based service? Wasn't that a nice Xmas gift of theirs? 
jbdet313 wrote:Microsoft is the one who really dropped the ball on this, IMHO. After all, it's AT&T's infrastructure, but it's running MICROSOFT's product. AT&T didn't come up with Mediaroom -- and that's what we're basically talking about communicating between AT&T and a customer's XBox. Oh, and, did all of you XBox users send a nice "Thank You" card to Microsoft for their decision to show you ADS on your subscription-based service? Wasn't that a nice Xmas gift of theirs?
Microsoft has been showing ads on the dashboard since day 1 of the 360's life. The non-xbox ads are now smaller than they were for the previous dashboard.
Not to mention several subscription based services have ads. Cable television is the number 1 subscription based service with ads. There's also SiriusXM radio, Newspapers, Hulu Plus and I'm sure there's even more that thousands of people are subscribed to that have ads.
