If you were hanging out to be able to watch and control iView with the power of your voice, you’ll be happy to know that Microsoft is launching the service in the app marketplace of the new Xbox dashboard today.
A free download, iView features full Kinect controls and includes access to the country’s best Internet TV service. In addition, the DailyMotion app is also launching in the marketplace today. Both join the recently launched SBS On Demand, NineMSN and YouTube apps.
If anyone’s sitting by their 360 console today, let us know what you think.
Steve
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 10:37 AMHooray! No need to sit at a computer, or use the useless PS3 anymore.
brent3000
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 1:13 PM^ Now the PS3 is only used for my BluRays :)
SERVAH
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 10:51 AMIt came out last night. Works great much better than ABC iView on my Sony TV which is so slow to load up any content in the menu. Now we just need the other free to air channels to get their online catchup services on the xbox -sbs ondemand and ninemsn.
Sketchy
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 11:06 AMBeen looking forward to this, and with SBS On Demand and youtube available too, well, props to MS for adding more value to this aging system.
Polymath
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 11:14 AMMust say the Nine MSM app for Xbox has about the lamest offerings I’ve ever seen. Outdated news stories and sports at worse-than-the-worst youtube quality. I had higher expectations.
Dave
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 11:35 AM+1 There is absolutely nothing worth watching on it, and even if there was, the picture quality is total rubbish. It is a “Don’t do what Donnie Don’t does” lesson to all future Xbox app devs.
PlatformAgnostic
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 11:52 AMGawds yes! Isn’t it frigging awful?
SBS on the other hand is a lesson in how to do something like that right, although I would still like an option to toggle to a list rather than endless tile flipping. Am looking forward to the iView app…
Dirk Pitt
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 8:14 AMShame you need to pay for an XBOX Live membership in order to watch anything through SBS On Demand, or ABC iView.
The PS3 doesn’t have SBS (yet!), but has had iView for a long time now.. oh and guess what I don’t need to pay to watch media through it…
chibs
Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 3:48 PMhey does anyone know how much internet it uses