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Just in case you don’t get enough joy already out of your Xbox 360, a new internet TV service is set to launch for the console towards the end of 2007.
IPTV was announced by Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s Entertainment Devices division, during the company’s keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The internet protocol service will allow 360 users to chat to friends at the same time as watching TV, or play on Xbox Live while recording a television show in the background – making it ideal for couch potatoes everywhere. IPTV will also feature “instant channel zapping, a rich and responsive user interface, video on demand with branded video-on-demand storefronts, digital video recording and high-definition television”.
IPTV will additionally be available via set top TV boxes and Microsoft is currently trialling the technology with 16 companies across the globe, including BT on this side of the pond.
The service follows the stateside success of Xbox Live Video, which now offers more than 1,000 hours of content from studios like Comedy Central, Paramount and Warner Brothers.
IPTV is due to launch this December and hopefully that’s in the UK too. Fingers crossed.
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