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IPTV Coming to Xbox 360 With Fall Update?

by Ryan Rayhill on October 29, 2007 at 01:27 PM

IPTV Coming to Xbox 360?



With Microsoft's promise of the Xbox 360 becoming your one-stop media hub becoming more and more evident with each passing day, the rumor of an IPTV update for the concave box should be a somewhat exciting non-surprise.

Recently, an Xbox 360 owner by the name of Aaron turned on his unit to see an interesting new icon had materialized on his dashboard that had four blank boxes and some text indicating that he could record live TV, see on-demand movies and chat while watching TV.

The option does not function at the moment, but does offer the website www.microsoft.com/tv , which takes you to the companies Mediaroom site, where some of the basics of Microsoft's IPTV features are explained.

His unit had just been returned from the repair center, which may explain how this weird preview ended up on his Xbox, but since he seems to be running the same dashboard version as everyone else (2.0.5787.0) it doesn't really explain why or how the currently non-working update came into being.

Either way, the photos he posted seem to lend credence to the rumor that this huge addition is impending in the Xbox 360's annual Fall Update.

Stay tuned!

From Xbox360FanBoy

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Tags: DVR, IPTV, Microsoft, on-demand, updates, Xbox 360, Xbox 360 Updates, Xbox Live, Xbox360, Xbox360Updates, XboxLive

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