Matt gets LOST
About a year ago, I was able to take the moral high ground. Whenever any of my friends mentioned the word “Lost” I was able to scoff at them with a certain disdain. Looking from the outside in, the show is a pile of nonsensical drivel that spends more time causing the viewer to scream “What the f**k?” at the television set then actually engage them in any real drama. In fact, I was always keen to point this out to anyone who dared try and promote the show to me. Unfortunately, the persistence got to me and on the 29th of March, 2009 I downloaded Lost season 1 from iTunes… the beginning of the end.
Sky on 360 hasn’t quite gone to plan…
The service will, eventually, show what channels your friends are watching amongst other features
Sky launched their streaming channel service on UK 360’s yesterday, promising access to 24 channels on demand. If you have an Xbox Live Gold account, with either a Sky TV or Sky Player subscription you can watch the ‘Base Entertainment Pack’, which includes GOLD, Sky Real Lives, Sky Arts 1, MTV One, Sky Sports News, British Eurosport, ESPN Classic, Sky News, National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild, History, Eden, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and Nick Jr.Oh, and if you need your movie or sport fix you can add them as well, unless you have them already in your sky subscription. If you are not a Sky Subscriber, it’s £15 for the standard pack (per month) with an extra £19 for sports.
However, you now can’t on a 360. The service, which requirements were essentially a 2mb internet connection, appeared to be very unstable at launch, crashing quite a lot. So much for this digital TV revolution, and Sky have now taken the service down. A quote from CVG from Sky said:
“Sky Player engineers are hard at work to resolve the problem. We expect to have the full service available on Wednesday.”
Now it is Wednesday and apparently the service is still not yet up at the time of writing. Sky have also responded to calls for a similar service to appear on PS3 and the response has been the default ‘no comment’. So it’s just 360 users, who soon will have access to both Facebook and Twitter through the dashboard following the next update, will soon have their Sky TV back.
