![Portrait with a Clumber horse [10/52]
I actually intended to try and do quite a straight portrait and include the horse at the side of me. I stood with my back to the horse with my camera at ...](http://publicenergy.co.uk/Projects/52-Weeks/20100306-1145-0017-Edit/803460292_nQg6M-Th.jpg "Portrait with a Clumber horse [10/52]
I actually intended to try and do quite a straight portrait and include the horse at the side of me. I stood with my back to the horse with my camera at ...")
SKY TV on the XBOX 360
The Sky Player on the Xbox 360
Positive Point
- The Interface is very nicely done.
Negative Points:
- The quality of the streaming is really bad (it’s also bad on the PC player)
- The selection of channels in the online subscription can only be described as shite – If you think of Sky TV, most people would probably want the big programmes that get stuck on Sky One – they are nowhere near this bizarre selection of bottom rung channels.
- Even if you do find something on there worth watching – you might get a notice saying that the programme isn’t being broadcast online – you’re told this in a VHS rental video ‘upcoming features’ style – it looks so nasty and amateurish.
- The initial offer when it became available via the Xbox was for 3 months for the price of two – this seemed like a cheap way to lock people in to 3 months of the service before they could escape.
- The Zune Marketplace can quite happily stream films at 1080p with Dolby Digital sound – this makes the Sky service even more of a joke as it shows it up, raises it’s leg and pisses all over it.
So, reading between the lines there, it’s safe to say I didn’t like it. It’d need a big channel like Sky One, streamed in HD to the quality of the Zune Marketplace to make it worth considering. At the moment it’s just awful.
