Comments on: SkyTV To Hit PS3? http://www.ps3blog.net/2009/10/30/skytv-to-hit-ps3/ Wed, 22 May 2013 02:34:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: matt73 http://www.ps3blog.net/2009/10/30/skytv-to-hit-ps3/#comment-237617 matt73 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:37:43 +0000 http://www.ps3blog.net/?p=14792#comment-237617 Except that iPlayer has been available on the Wii for a long time now so you can hardly call it a PS3 exclusive :-p Except that iPlayer has been available on the Wii for a long time now so you can hardly call it a PS3 exclusive :-p

]]> By: JimmyMagnum http://www.ps3blog.net/2009/10/30/skytv-to-hit-ps3/#comment-237599 JimmyMagnum Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:07:09 +0000 http://www.ps3blog.net/?p=14792#comment-237599 no, Netflix and Sky are two different companies. Netflix is the rental service out here in the states, Sky is a satellite TV provider in the UK and Ireland. As far as the iPlayer and whatnot goes, it's exclusive to PS3 consoles in a way because no other console is able to use it lol. As far as the Flash10 videos, that I don't know. I doubt it would since it seems PS3's flash codecs are proprietary so they would have to update it themselves (one of the negatives of the PS3 browser) no, Netflix and Sky are two different companies. Netflix is the rental service out here in the states, Sky is a satellite TV provider in the UK and Ireland.

As far as the iPlayer and whatnot goes, it’s exclusive to PS3 consoles in a way because no other console is able to use it lol.

As far as the Flash10 videos, that I don’t know. I doubt it would since it seems PS3′s flash codecs are proprietary so they would have to update it themselves (one of the negatives of the PS3 browser)

]]> By: matt73 http://www.ps3blog.net/2009/10/30/skytv-to-hit-ps3/#comment-237597 matt73 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:12:14 +0000 http://www.ps3blog.net/?p=14792#comment-237597 Is this expansion the NetFlix offering? Can you point us at the press release? And I don't think the iPlayer is exclusive to the PS3. The interface is the bigscreen interface you can access here http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen/, and the icon on the XMB is simply a link to launch the browser to that page. There were specific updates to the flash player in recent firmware updates that allowed better use of the PS3 hardware to decode and playback high quality streams for the iPlayer service. If you want another good example of big screen interfaces being deployed on the web at the moment, try http://www.youtube.com/xl, although a number of YouTube videos are now using Flash10, so will they still work on the PS3? And I like to think of myself as a realist rather than a sceptic ;) Is this expansion the NetFlix offering? Can you point us at the press release?
And I don’t think the iPlayer is exclusive to the PS3. The interface is the bigscreen interface you can access here http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen/, and the icon on the XMB is simply a link to launch the browser to that page.
There were specific updates to the flash player in recent firmware updates that allowed better use of the PS3 hardware to decode and playback high quality streams for the iPlayer service.

If you want another good example of big screen interfaces being deployed on the web at the moment, try http://www.youtube.com/xl, although a number of YouTube videos are now using Flash10, so will they still work on the PS3?

And I like to think of myself as a realist rather than a sceptic ;)

]]> By: Hey Matt http://www.ps3blog.net/2009/10/30/skytv-to-hit-ps3/#comment-237394 Hey Matt Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:45:32 +0000 http://www.ps3blog.net/?p=14792#comment-237394 This seems likely as Sony has just stated in a Press Release that they will be expanding their Net TV services in the coming year. By expand they mean on top of VidZone and BBC's iPlayer. VidZone is exclusive to the PS3 and BBC iPlayer has a specific player for the PS3. I could see the exact same thing happening for SkyTV and any other service. I have heard that they may be interested in Revision Internet TV as well. I wouldn't be so skeptical. This seems likely as Sony has just stated in a Press Release that they will be expanding their Net TV services in the coming year. By expand they mean on top of VidZone and BBC’s iPlayer. VidZone is exclusive to the PS3 and BBC iPlayer has a specific player for the PS3. I could see the exact same thing happening for SkyTV and any other service. I have heard that they may be interested in Revision Internet TV as well.

I wouldn’t be so skeptical.

]]> By: JimmyMagnum http://www.ps3blog.net/2009/10/30/skytv-to-hit-ps3/#comment-237236 JimmyMagnum Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:32:05 +0000 http://www.ps3blog.net/?p=14792#comment-237236 yeah, I read about that potentially causing some issues, which led me to believe that if this is, indeed, coming to the PS3, then they are most likely working on a way to do so. The CEO said he'd like to have the content available on multiple platforms to give their customers more choice on how they receive said content. In fact, about a year ago or so, Sony and Sky were supposedly working together to do so. Maybe now it's finally coming to fruition. Until then, this post should be considered a 'rumor', so the only thing we can do is wait until Sky and/or Sony make official announcements. Also, before I forget, there were a few folks who spotted that line in the document, but IDK if you could classify that as kind of a bigfoot sighting or not :P yeah, I read about that potentially causing some issues, which led me to believe that if this is, indeed, coming to the PS3, then they are most likely working on a way to do so. The CEO said he’d like to have the content available on multiple platforms to give their customers more choice on how they receive said content.

In fact, about a year ago or so, Sony and Sky were supposedly working together to do so. Maybe now it’s finally coming to fruition. Until then, this post should be considered a ‘rumor’, so the only thing we can do is wait until Sky and/or Sony make official announcements.

Also, before I forget, there were a few folks who spotted that line in the document, but IDK if you could classify that as kind of a bigfoot sighting or not :P

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