MillieSoft Blog » Xbox 360 http://blog.milliesoft.co.uk Blogging about Media Center development Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:16:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 BBC iPlayer on the Xbox http://blog.milliesoft.co.uk/2009/11/bbc-iplayer-on-the-xbox/ http://blog.milliesoft.co.uk/2009/11/bbc-iplayer-on-the-xbox/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:43:10 +0000 Martin Millmore http://blog.milliesoft.co.uk/?p=184 bbx_xboxThere was an interesting article in The Telegraph over the weekend which claimed that the BBC will not be bringing the iPlayer to the Xbox 360, unlike the PS3 and Wii which already have excellent integration. It is claimed that this is because Microsoft are demanding that it only be made available to Xbox Gold subscribers, and the BBC are saying that that is unreasonable. As you will see from my post about Sky integration, I’m really down on requiring Xbox gold membership to access services like that. Gold membership should be about getting you access to servers that run online gaming. It should not be about bringing you access to third party software that is free elsewhere. Well done BBC for sticking up to Microsoft, and I hope Sky see sense too.

Of course if you want to watch iPlayer on the Xbox 360, just install TunerFreeMCE on your PC and access it via Media Center. The latest version of TunerFreeMCE includes wmv streaming of BBC programs, so works great on extenders like the Xbox 360 too.

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