That Xbox 360 in your living room? It's not just for video games anymore. In addition to the high definition movie download service Microsoft launched earlier this year, you can expect an IPTV service to launch towards the end of 2007, effectively turning the video game console into a PVR/multimedia device.
The service will include live streaming broadcasts, and let play a game while recording a program in the background. Of course you'll get all the usual goodies like an on-screen program guide and the ability to pause, rewind, and fast forward through recordings.
There are no details yet on pricing and whether you'll need to install a larger hard drive on your Xbox 360 for the service to work, although I'd imagine that you'd really want more than 20GB.
1. funny, all us gamers scratched our heads to try and figure out why they didn't include a "TV in" option. Well now we know...
Posted at 6:19AM on Jan 9th 2007 by Jason