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Bing search will be used to search content in the various apps, and those with Kinect can do so by using their voice

Microsoft will launch a major Xbox Live update this holiday season that lumps video games, TV shows, movies, music and sports all into a new group of applications that can be controlled by your voice.

Microsoft has reached agreements with over 40 media firms to bring live and on-demand movies and television content for the Xbox 360 console. Users must have an Xbox Live Gold membership in order to access this content.

The Xbox 360 update will switch from the Xbox's traditional interface to the new tile-based, Metro look that is very similar to that of Windows Phone 7. The tiles will represent different available applications.

Speaking of Windows Phone, those with the device can use the free Xbox Companion app to find this content on-the-go.

Microsoft will be using its Bing search engine to allow Xbox 360 users to search any content found within the applications. For those with Kinect, content can be searched using voice control.

"A new era in entertainment begins where all your entertainment is together in one place — your games, movies, TV shows, music and sports,” said Don Mattrick, president of the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft. “With this update, Xbox 360 system owners will experience Kinect voice control integrated with Bing search, making your TV and entertainment experiences more social and personal than ever."

The update will start rolling out tomorrow and continue introducing new apps into early 2012 throughout several different countries. The following is a list of content providers and the dates in which they will be available on Xbox Live:

December 6

EPIX
ESPN on Xbox LIVE
Hulu
Hulu Plus
LOVEFiLM
Netflix
Premium Play by (MediaSet)
Sky Go (SkyDE)
Telefónica España - Movistar Imagenio
TODAY (MSNBC)


Later in December

4 on Demand (C4)
ABC iView (Australia Broadcasting Corp.)
AlloCiné
Astral Media's Disney XD (Astral Media)
blinkbox (Blinkbox)
Crackle (Sony Pictures)
Dailymotion
Demand 5 (Five)
DIGI+ (CANAL+)
GolTV (Mediapro)
iHeartRadio (Clear Channel)
Mediathek/ZDF (ZDF)
MSN
MSNBC.com
MUZU.TV
ninemsn
Real Sports (Maple Leaf Sports)
Rogers On Demand Online (Rogers Media)
SBS ON DEMAND
Sky Go (SkyDE)
TMZ (Warner Bros.)
TVE (RTVE.es)
UFC on Xbox Live (UFC)
Verizon FiOS TV
VEVO
Vudu (Wal-Mart)
YouTube


Early 2012

Antena 3 (Antena 3 de Televisión)
BBC
CinemaNow (Best Buy)
HBO GO
MLB.TV
Telenovelas/Sports (Televisa)
Xfinity on Demand (Comcast)

“Microsoft has just built and delivered it: A single box that ties together all the content you want, made easily accessible through a universal, natural, voice-directed search. This is now the benchmark against which all other living room initiatives should be compared,” said James McQuivey of Forrester Research.

Source: Microsoft


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RE: Excellent
By Iaiken on 12/5/2011 11:47:07 AM , Rating: 3
Once I was able to get my PS3 controllers & remote working with my PC over BT and a TV that could receive streaming directly over Wi-Fi that was basically the end of my PS3 as a media device.

My media server lives in a ventilated closet with three hacked BT-USB2 dongles sticking out of it. When I press the PS button on a paired PS3 controller or any button on my PS3 remote, the media server wakes up and sends a UPnP signal over Wi-Fi to the TV/Receiver to turn on.

As soon as the TV is fully on, I see the windows media sever menu (you could basically set up any media server you like this way) being streamed from the media PC. I can start browsing using the PS3 controller/remote and then kick off a new stream.

I am working on streaming the desktop and adding a BT mouse/kb into the mix, but Windows is being decidedly unhelpful in this regard.

Regardless, it's just a matter of time before this sort of setup (or something more advanced) becomes the norm.


"Mac OS X is like living in a farmhouse in the country with no locks, and Windows is living in a house with bars on the windows in the bad part of town." -- Charlie Miller











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