Xbox 360 Sky Player Exposed With Glitches

Yes sky player has finally arrived on Xbox 360 but is only available for the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland at the moment. Yes the Xbox 360 Sky player has had a little glitch at the start of the service. Basically what happened was the Sky servers could not take the strain of all the new demand sequentially crashing there servers. This is still true in peak periods. Xbox.com and Sky.com have both giving out a statement stating “that due to unprecedented demand we are having issues with Xbox-sky service and that engineers are looking into the issue.” It looks to me that they have way underestimated the demand expected.

With this said and done the Sky Xbox player is not bad when running. With a total 26 channels, including Sky movies and Sky Sports. With almost all channels having there own on demand service as well. If you already a Sky subscriber you can sign in using you own Skyid at no extra cost. That’s if you do already subscribe to the channels. If you are not a sky subscriber just go to xbox.com/skyplayer to register.

Now for the cost, for the basic 26 channels this will set you back £15 Sky movies and Sky sports are extra. This should include all the on demand service but again there is small print and is very misleading. For example when you subscribe for the channels it states that on demand are included, but in the small print it states only select programs are included. To make matters worse when you are using the sky on demand service, there are no icons stating that you have to pay for the item, only until you come up to the program itself. This is when you find out that you have to pay 98p per program.

Now having my little rant out of the way, the Xbox 360 Sky Player is not bad. To use the service got video marketplace the to the Sky icon. You will have to download a small free program this is 28mb if my memory Serves me right. With a few nice touch such as the Sky’s original program guide and the ability to watch programs with you friends is a nice touch.

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