Aussie pay TV service announced for Xbox 360

sounds great. the only problem is my download cap...lousy optus and its 7gb max. a few hours on youtube and its gone.

@ Baruday: Ppshhh...forget the AFL - that gives me the s#$ts when those live games get put right in the middle of a V8 telecast! Just gimme NRL and V8's and I'll be pleased k thx...

Damn i love getting Xbox Live unmetered with iinet. even then still got my monthly 150GB quota which i never go over.

If I can get access to Sci-Fi channel for $20 per month, I'm interested, otherwise I'll stick with buying DVD's.

whoever wants to see the speed at which austrlaian downlaods...go onto youtube and right click. thete should be a check speed button there. its quiet sad how sad australia is compaired to the rest of the world....a very sad fact

Streaming over the internet? Yeah, that part is what's going to make this fall over. Australia needs to pick up it's speed before than happens. Even 'normal' quality videos streamed over Live (the previews and so on you see from time to time) don't run too well.

@ veeks Yeah I agree, it's probably best to reserve judgement until we see some pricing plans. I can understand why it's not part of a Live Gold subscription though. They'd have to raise the price so everyone pays for it, and I certainly wouldn't want to pay for it if I wasn't going to use it. I'm curious to see who the second ISP will be other than Telstra Bigpond...

"Gimme all ur moniez nao lol" - Microsoft Xbox 360 representative.

What i want is the chance to choose what channels i want (or different packages) otherwise its useless.

you can get the same thing in the UK with "Sky" on xbox..... but is expensive it will be over here too!!!

@papouse84 , My comment was a little tounge-in-cheek. Don't get me wrong, I think it is great that companies are trying to get the most out of their products, I just wish there wasn't an extra cost added to every new feature. We are already paying for the "premium" xbox live experience + internet service (if your download limit will allow it) and now we are offered a four channel pay-tv option. That seems to be a huge circle to go around just to watch television shows on your television set.

I'm a firm believer of "you buy a console for the exclusives"... ie, I'm a Nintendo man because of Zelda. I'm sure there are lots of Halo fans that are the reason the Xbox continues to thrive... However, I have since bought a PS3 with PlayTV as it was simply the best/cheapest way to get a PVR, Blueray player and a bonus game console. Until now, the only valid reason I could see for an Xbox over a PS3 was Halo/Fable (or another exclusive). But to me, this looks like a promissing feature... assuming the price is reasonable.

@veeks I'm a bit confused by your comment; are you saying you'd prefer that companies don't innovate?

I love how they announce this the day after Sony brings out theirs. Its like "Um.. Oh... Yeah... Australia! Uh..We care about you too! Here see!"

I already got foxtel with all channels. I don't need this.

I love seeing the inventive methods these companies come up with to take our money.

so i have to pay for live and then pay for foxtel hmmm no thanks

Streaming? Damn. I'll have to wait until Aussie broadband picks up.

Great idea, I don't have Foxtel and wouldn't mind seeing some of the sport and movies on Foxtel.

damn thatll b awesome

Just give me NRL and the games live and this is the greatest deal ever. Wont get my hopes up though, probably some useless re runs of old soaps.

Unmetered Fox Sports for AFL could come in very handy. Hopefully the price isn't over-the-top, probs will be though