Xbox Live Diamond TV service getting E3 unveil?

Extra fee? Sheesh. Why not just slap Netflix, Hulu Plus, Zune Pass, IPTV, and everything else that gets an extra charge and make it a flat fee? Call it Xbox Platinum or something.

but you can all ready get crap like foxtel (pay tv) on thier lol

sounds good but whats the bet AU wont get it til next gen xbox is almost released if at all

It'll only be good if it's cheaper than Comcast and better service...which shouldn't be hard.

Great, thats why i bought my xbox, to watch tv.

@Beesters Wouldn't that be nice?

Maybe now my Comcast bill will drop.......

Yes, let's introduce more streaming services at a time when almost every internet provider in the United States is capping bandwidth.

us europeans will be put to sleep during half the conference then? great

@mickyfinn84 All Microsoft knows how to do is clutter desktops/dashboards.

Yeah, because god knows Micro$oft isnt in the videogame business.

This would be better if I did not have a download cap of 30GB... mind you, the only time I go over is from downloading too many tv shows...

We want games Microsoft, enough with all the crap cluttering up the dashboard. While your messing around with this stuff Sony is getting all the best deals.

Considering how Netflix stock has been phenomenal, how the company grew, how almost 50% of xboxlive traffic is video related content (movies ect) how 20% of us internet traffic at peek times is Netflix. Then yeah, this is tremendous news. Cable needs competition.

Is M$ going to be showing any games this year?

If this console generation last one or two more years, it'll be worth it, but I hope this feature makes it to the next-gen. Getting used to this luxury and having it scrapped in the next console would suck...

last year MS press sucked because it was all about kinect and just few games how about more games rather than just some cable tv that will not work in Asia (only in US) i neeed games MS

Now this might be ok...except you're still going to need the cable companies to supply you the internet. So why bother

While I still crave some good game news from Microsoft this E3, if this news turns out to be true I will be floored...

I am all for this. the more competition the cable companies have the cheaper it will be for everyone.

sounds good to me.....

Sounds cool it will take a while before i would make a purchase.

I think its really going to depend on how much "extra" this service will cost and how much its going to offer. My DirecTV bill is roughly 50 bucks a month surely it'll be cheaper than that but i get like 200 channels. Not that I use all 200 of them (maybe 10 or 20) but some of them I cant be without like sports channels and history channel and fox. I'm not making a decision on this one until I see what its going to offer. But if its cheap enough and offers enough channels all the big cable/satellite companies better look out.

@salvucci91 I'll be the first one to cancel. Cable "providers" prefer to use no lube when they rape you.

Hmph.. is it really necessary? Yeah, it's pretty awesome that will have that capability, but how many people are really going to cancel with their current cable provider?

I already have cable MS, how about you let us in on some possible games in development?

I dont want to hear about TV at E3, MS better bring Gaming news....

..didn't Opra was into the whole Gaming scene especially with the XBOX hahahha..more money for Microsoft! Woohoo!

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Will Diamond be available in Canada... that's what i'm wondering.

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US only , not for the UK I bet. :-(

No thanks...I get mad channels included in my Comcast bill...And phone too. But this sounds cool for others that don't get those included with their internet package.

So could I buy select channels that I watch and cancel my cable? Because if I could buy my sport channel and the history and the science channel I would cancel my cable. I only use like 3 channels.. if I wasn't a sports fan I would cancel cable right now.

i think they need to start buying 3rd parties.. im pretty sure they will annouce some this E3.. i think they want to stay in the gaming console market and they must know u need exclusives specialy when u charge for online for 3rd party games and the others are free to play. nintendo and sonys online wont be as bad next gen so they need to do something.....

I am against it. Even if it does come out relatively cheap it won't stay that way for long. If cable companies start getting threatened by it because they own a lot of channels and therefore start raising prices for the channels they own. The same thing happened to satellite companies. Next I have good internet......most of the time but it does go out or slow occasionally. Plus I do use Netflix occasionally but I don't want to be taking up bandwidth doing something there are other ways to do.

I will say it now $10 its not coming to Australia...

could be either good thing or bad thing, it depends on how M$ executes it.

@Jebril Yeah but your bandwidth usage is going to go through the roof. So this still doesn't really seem like a huge deal. Plus I don't own an xbox for watching tv, you know what I mean? Hell, with the exception of the Wii, even netflix runs better on every other platform. If we don't see an exclusive that's not Halo or Gears, their press confernce is going to suck. I never turn on my xbox unless it's to play gears or halo because I have my PC and PS3 for everything else, both of which do gaming better than the xbox in almost every respect. I wish they'd show off something new because it's really starting to show it's age. I mean the xbox is a pretty low end PC compared to today's standards. The PS3 has the advantage of blu-ray and slightly better internals, so games aren't look as compressed and janky...but even they only have another year or two tops. Basically, if this is microsofts big reveal, there better be some new exclusive IP's.

Most of you kiddies are complaining about this cuz you see no use to it, and it's not like a 15 year old should be excited for this anyway, their mom pays for their cable bill. But for someone who pays for their own cable bill can see that this can replace their cable TV for what could be a third of the cost if done right.

@cyclonebw Super Street Fighter IV, Marvel Vs Capcom 3, Mass Effect 2, Mortal Kombat, Fallout New Vegas, Portal 2, CoD, pretty much every game that come out for the PS3 aside from a few exclusives. IDK man there's still tons of games that came out in the last two years. I dare say you're a troll?

Show me the games! Something other than Halo, Gears of War and Forza.

This actually might be able to replace cable TV for a lot of people if they do it right, what matters the most is the kind of content released on it and how much? Honestly I think it's not necessary but we'll see how it goes.

depending on how much they charge and what they offer can be good news to those college kids who do not have cable tv in their apartment and watch movies all day.

Ok! its very good

so xbox live got more expensive and now they want you to pay more on top of that to get something new? I'll just stick to pulling up shows on the computer or something.

Not so sure if thats a good idea.

Yea, I rarely watch cable tv on my tv dedicated to cable television haha. In my mind cable is old technology, and it's a pain. Why would I want to tune in every week at the same time when I can watch that same episode on hulu, or stream it commercial free on netflix? This is the 21's century, I'm done "tuning in".

Now we know why xbox hasn't been getting any games the last 2 years. Theve been working on tv channels. lol