Xbox 360 will be receiving a great update later this summer that will bring in some much needed improvements to the service. Xbox 360 will be receiving Paypal and Avatar Kinect support. There is six different upgrades that are scheduled to be released between May 19th and May 30th.
These Paypal upgrades are very important to Microsoft because it will open up new international markets that they aren’t current in. This means that you will no longer have to add your credit card into the Xbox Live system, making it a lot more secure than Playstation Network.
Are you an Xbox gamer? I’m sure you are going to enjoy this. Sky broadcaster has just signed a deal with Microsoft, more specifically with the Xbox platform to deliver their transmissions to all Xbox Live users.
Since Sky has their main offices in England, this offering will available only for UK and Ireland users. But I’m sure if this works for them, will be available in other countries.
In fall, british XBox Live users will have the possibility to enjoy live transmissions, including football games. And the transmissions will be streamed in DVD quality, the standard for this broadcaster. Here’s a quick image that was revealed in advance (from TechRadar):
There are two things that are not official yet: price and the channel that will be available, we’ll have to wait for a confirmation. But there is already the minimum requirement for the connection speed: 1mb connection as minimum and 2mb recommended… not much if you ask me, considering the you’ll be receiving fine quality video streamed in real-time.
Sky also expects that this service won’t be exclusive for Xbox and already thinking in other platforms that could support the same functionality (yes, PS3 mainly).
