Telkom evaluating Xbox 360 for IPTV

[doobiwan]

http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=5325

“We have been working with Microsoft with respect to entertainment services. The Xbox 360 is part of the ongoing evaluations in respect of such services,” Telkom said.

And peeps thought it was just a conspiracy theory!

[RotoRouterZA]

Lovingly strokes my xbox...

This is hopefully going to be a good year!!!

[Ruslan74]

so now i have to buy another X360 as my wife will for sure confiscate the current one to watch Egoli!

[RotoRouterZA]

HAHAHAHA

I was going to get one anyway...

[doobiwan]

Heh heh,

No you won't, you'll need to buy an MS Home Server So you can stream the stuff to your PC as well

. . . But I am very glad I got the 360 rather than the Wii at this stage. Wii can wait . . .

[Ruslan74]

well, i am planning to get Vista to stream stuff from my PC to the X360 anyhow... man... its going to be a streamy mess.

[doobiwan]

You don't need Vista to stream apparently the 360 will work with Media Player 11.

[Noodle]

Great there goes my theory of not getting anything with a telkom logo on it

Heard the same bout MP 11. (or windows media edition)

[SlappY]

Guys, note it said nothing about IPTV. They could be talking about the basic live service.

[doobiwan]

Slaps, it is IPTV, Telkom's been trialling the MS platform for a while now in conjunction with Alcatel, just search MyADSL for an article.

There's also a "Telkom Employee" on the Xbox-360 forums whose apparently confirmed that this is the case and the it's working 100%.