In 2007, Bill Gates announced with great fanfare at the Consumer Electronics Show that you would be able to use your Xbox 360 as a set-top box of the company’s Microsoft TV IPTV platform.
That meant that phone companies such as AT&T would be able to use the Xbox 360 to deliver TV services over broadband networks, cutting into the monopoly of cable TV companies.
More than three years later, it looks like it will finally happen in the U.S .AT&T’s U-Verse TV and web service will be able to use the Xbox 360 as a set-top box. Customers of AT&T U-Verse will be able to get access to this feature on Sunday, Oct. 17, according to Engadget. Then the actual consumer use of that feature will be activated on Nov. 7.
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October 8, 2010
I wonder how much this is gonna cost on top of the gold membership.