BT sucks ass, upto 8mb? £25 a month?? WTF?

Be24 no cap, upto 24mb, 1.3mb down £18 a month!

This is ridiculous, using BT for such a venture, BT vision provides Freeveiw through an ariel and IPTV is basically downlaoded movies and sports along with various docs and cartoons etc, now if softy was serious about this home intergration service, Virgin Media is where they should of started, with a cable network service that better provides speeds and more choice of TV, along with HD possibility and ON demand services, MS could offer the Movie downloads still. i here you say not all the uk has access to Cable well not all the uk has access to BT services such as fast broadband and (UPTO being there fav word) the bt vision service is limited to certain areas, with the US using cablecard services for media centre why couldnt something like this be intergrated with virgin, infact an incentive to sign up could be a free 360 with the required equipment all installed and working for free! i see more negative than positives with this. that is if it actually ever takes place? not to even mention hard disk limitations for all this on demand content, all of those with 20gb HD who refuse to pay over the supid odds for a 120GB HD or upgrade a prefectly good Arcade or Premium for an elite will we be able to use this service, and if we can how much can we store at a time?

Dont forget a lot of that stuff is stream only or temporary, TV shows are permanent though but how many people want to keep old shows for ages on their hard drives? Because even then 120gb is not enough people will always be needy of more space.

*sigh*

Did you entirely miss the whole part about Mediaroom? How about M$ wants to push their Mediaroom tech, which is already working on the 360!, so have partnered with the only company using it here in the UK....... Virgin are about as useful to them as I am.

The whole logic here is genius. Microsoft provide a full On Demand service for the 360 through their own technology, but by using partners such as BT they dont need to negotiate all the content deals with all the companies in all the countries. A quick look on wikipedia suggests Germany, Singapore and the US may be next in line.

The only bad thing I see for Microsoft is the BT Broadband lock... meaning the marketplace video store will have to stay open.

did you mean 1.3mb upload? ;)