{"id":2297,"date":"2010-03-04T19:57:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T18:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2297-microsofts-super-exciting-sky-tv-on-xbox-with-social-interaction.html"},"modified":"2010-03-04T19:57:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T18:57:50","slug":"microsofts-super-exciting-sky-tv-on-xbox-with-social-interaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2297-microsofts-super-exciting-sky-tv-on-xbox-with-social-interaction.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s super-exciting Sky TV on Xbox with social interaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m watching Microsoft\u2019s Steve Ballmer present a session on cloud computing. It\u2019s been underwhelming so far, but I was interested to see how Sky TV will look on Xbox 360 (though I\u2019d readily swap it for BBC iPlayer, which Microsoft seems to be obstructing). The key point: you can watch with your Xbox Live friends and interact during the broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcast was coming all the way from the UK to west coast USA, which was apparently why the avatars spent some time watching a buffering thermometer. Still, it worked eventually.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More on Ballmer\u2019s cloud perspective later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m watching Microsoft\u2019s Steve Ballmer present a session on cloud computing. It\u2019s been underwhelming so far, but I was interested to see how Sky TV will look on Xbox 360 (though I\u2019d readily swap it for BBC iPlayer, which Microsoft seems to be obstructing). The key point: you can watch with your Xbox Live friends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2297-microsofts-super-exciting-sky-tv-on-xbox-with-social-interaction.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft\u2019s super-exciting Sky TV on Xbox with social interaction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,44,55,100],"tags":[196,267,586,831,1046],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-internet","category-microsoft","category-xbox","tag-bbc-iplayer","tag-cloud-computing","tag-microsoft","tag-sky","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}