The U.S. has
Netflix, the UK has Sky TV and now
France is getting Canal+ added to the Xbox 360, in a similar deal to the one bringing
live and on-demand Sky TV in England, the French will be free to party up and watch more than 3,000 movies and TV shows, catch-up TV, French Ligue 1 soccer games, and headbutt flopping, filthy-mouthed Italians in the chest. No word if sports hooliganism will be supported in this iteration, but judging from the screens the avatar support should also mirror its UK counterpart. This is likely not the end of tie-ups between the two either, with the partnership planned to eventually encompass other Canal Plus & Microsoft products. Check out one additional pic of the updated dashboard after the break.
[Via
Reuters]
posted Jun 29th 2009 11:26AM
damm it i want this ..i dont even use netflix thats some bullshit :s
Really, why would I want to watch myself watching myself watching TV?
so it can be a pseudo-Mystery Science Theater 3000
isnt this for free? unlike netflix where you gotta pay up?
I want ESPN and MLB.tv on my 360.
+1 for MLB.tv
i want the damn full iptv service they promised us years ago.
i want nba league pass :(
yeah no kidding the IPTV service was demo'd in 2007.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0GijX9SSjU
Don't expect full IPTV until the content providers stop being idiots, in other words, it'll be a long time coming (at least legitimately).
looks smooth... but here's an idea, global features...
I hate that there are coming all these features and none of which I can enjoy :(
I WANT NETFLIX!
There needs to be more international streamed TV. I want to go all online, but my parents need their Russian channels, which aren't available online, or any that I can find.
If you can help, post below. Also, if you can find an HD feed, that'd be awesome.
ive heard of the original modded xbox XBMC having a russian channel add-on
Wow, this is incredibly lame.
Nintendo Mii's?
What else is new?
what rock were u living under?
Yup we need International TV, what's the point in streaming national/cable channels anyway?OK, you could do away with cable..yeah I know...but TWC, Comacast and the other goons are not gonna let that happen. *Sigh*
Allez Marseille!
What kind of name has a + in it
Sky+?
Canal+, "channel plus", "channel more".
When will Canada get anything like this? I would sign up for NetFlix in a heart beat.
No kidding. I've been hoping zip.ca would figure it out, but the biggest problem seems to be the US content providers signing deals with the major Canadian broadcasters in which they all lock up digital distribution.
In other words, the Canadian networks create their own little online fiefdoms which also applies to movies.
Heck, it even happens in movie theatres. AMC in the US signs North American distribution deals so that Cineplex theatres can't show certain movies if they're within a particular distance, leading people to either put up with the ultra crappy AMC experience, or travelling further out of your way to go to what is (at least comparatively) a much better theatre.
Weblogs Inc. seems incapable of training its staff in simple geography. Both here, on Autoblog and on Joystiq I've seen senseless references to "England". Let me do your trainer's job for you:
England = England
Great Britain = England, Scotland & Wales
United Kingdom = England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland
Sky's deal is coming to the United Kingdom and Ireland - which means England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Neither Sky nor Microsoft offer services which are tailored solely to England.
Couldn't agree more.
Its more a American thing, all of the UK is "England" when its not, it annoys me as an englishman, it annoys my Scot and welsh friends too. If you have to lump us all together call it Britain!
wow, we moved across an ocean and fought a war... yet hundreds of years later, we still have to listen to you complain about something as trivial as what name we use to describe your miserable country.
if it wasn't for bbc news, I would say we should create a technology to filter the lot of you out of our internet.
THANK YOU! This bothers the hell out of me; how hard is it to get simple geography right?
Jake does not speak for this American. Read a map you dumb ass.
I knew the first and the third, but the second one is new to me. Why do you have to make so damn complicated?
England is England
UK is all four countries
Why the extra GB for the entire island excluding Northern Island?
Your interent?
You see that http://www bit? thats a freaking Eglish invention.
So's all the combination of letters I'm using to communicate with you too.
On behalf of my grandad thanks for the help in WWI n WWII though (I assume that's what you meant, though you did say hundred of years, but what with stereotypical United Ex-Colony of The British Empire's eduction system I wouldn't be surprised if you thought WWII was over a hundred years ago)
Back in the day it was simply England, then in the 16th Century we annexed Wales, 1707 we had a union with Scotland, 1800 a union with Ireland, in 1948 South Ireland (or the Republic of Ireland) gained independence. Just be glad you don't to learn a different name for England and Wales, we've been around a long time, it gets complicated.
Yes, deanb, My Internet. The internet is not as international or unstoppable as most people give it credit for. Take for instance, China. They don't allow content from certain domains (probably through IP). Since you obviously don't understand sarcasm, I'll let you in on the joke: I don't actually think creating a filtered subset of the internet would be a good idea.
Secondly, the war I was referring to was the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)... I could have also been referring to the war of 1812, but I wasn't. Both of these wars occurred greater than 100 years ago, thereby "hundreds of years". You are correct though that both WWs were less than 100 years ago. Good for you, buddy!
Lastly, my main point was that with all the things Engadget/Weblogs Inc does poorly, fussing over their lack of supersetting a name when referring to what locales get a service points out the trivial nature of most English/Brits/UKers. For example, this news article about the definition of the term "biscuit", which is NOT the first article I've read about large court cases over the definition of that word.
I'm English/Welsh in lineage, I don't actually give a damn either way about where a person is from (nor do I think America is the greatest country in the world). I was kidding before, but seriously this time, I wish I could filter indignant c*nts like you off the internet.
Forgot to include a link to the article I was referring to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7490346.stm
also, Engadget, please fix your comment system
Jake. That's just the UK government being greedy though. They are not just arguing over the term biscuit for fun. They are doing it so that they can get more money from sales of those things.
Ashwin, Great Britain is the name of the Island on which England, Wales and Scotland are situated.
Not a fan of the Eyetalians eh Dick?
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U-Verse plz?
Seriously Microsoft.....I would love you more than anything if you finally struck that deal with at&t that's been rumored since the IPTV service was first demo'd
theyve had the deal with at&t for years, however not in the United States. The cable / fiber companies in this country are all trying to build their own proprietary networks using their own cable boxes, where in europe and asia IPTV is more prevalent.
we need iptv asap
If Xbox could do this for Japanese baseball I'm sure sales would dramatically pick up over there as well.
Why? As like the Sky deal and the Canal Live deal, you can already get all of these on your PS3. However Sony don't constantly make a song and dance about it like Microsoft (perhaps they should...)
it's also mighty misleading to use that picture in the article as it's been openly admited by Microsoft as a mockup and the finished article won't look anything like it (static icons).
Forgot to include a link to the article I was referring to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7490346.stm
+1 for the Zidane headbutt reference
"on-demand Sky TV in England" Ahem, It's The UK, It consists of England, Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Flippin' Yanks.
I wonder how they're restricting it to France. Via XBL registration street address? IP address? Some kind of code subscribers need to enter? I'd love to get access to this, find a way around whatever the mechanism is that restricts it to France..
yeah no kidding the IPTV service was demo'd in 2007.
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