Just as it did
earlier this year, Microsoft has opened the preview program to let the most hardcore of Xbox 360 owners poke around the updated dashboard -- presumably with access to all the
1080p instant-on streaming, Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm add-ons we've been expecting -- ahead of its official release in order to shake out any remaining bugs. While worldwide console owners should scrape together console IDs, make & model of your TV, router and more in hopes of receiving an invite next week, a little more concrete news is in order for the UK, with the console launch of
Sky TV nailed down for October 27. You'll have to wait until then to find out exact pricing and channel line up availability, 'til then it's a matter of finding out who on your friends list is most suited for the inevitable football viewing party.
[Via
Joystiq &
NeoGAF]
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posted October 14th 2009 7:36PM
Netflix does the job for me, if anything microsoft should net a deal with DirectTV or DishTV for the US because cablevision/comcast/time warner is wallet rape!
I'm all for them ensuring the user experience is consistent, but there are "dodgy memory cards" and then there are reliable non-Microsoft memory cards, and then there are stupidly expensive Microsoft ones.
Which are they making sure work? If it's just the Microsoft ones then it seems rather anti-competitive to me.