While the
Xbox 360 Sky Player apparently launched in the UK yesterday as planned, things veered away from the plan almost
immediately thereafter. The service was “suspended” shortly after launch, for what must be the
best possible problem in Microsoft’s eyes: too many subscribers.
“Unfortunately due to the unprecedented levels of simultaneous demand,” a statement on Xbox.com reads, “we did not have the capacity to satisfy all service requests and therefore temporarily suspended all access to the service.” The service is being reinstated in phases today, presumably with some upgrades in place to deal with the demand. An earlier statement (reproduced on Engadget) specified tomorrow as the target date for the relaunch — it seems likely that all users will be returned to their regularly scheduled programming then.
Xbox 360 Sky Player down, relaunching ‘in phases’ today originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on October 28th, 2009 at 1:00pm by JC Fletcher
Filed Under: sky-player, skytv, streaming-video, uk, xbox-live
Netflix was kind enough to answer a heap of nitpicky questions following the announcement that its steaming service would soon be available for PlayStation 3. Certainly, question marks hovered over the application “disc” and whether or not it would have to always be in the PS3 to use the Netflix streaming service. It turns out that Netflix won’t have an integrated XMB solution just yet — but it’s coming.
Check out our interview with a Netflix representative for the full details:
Joystiq: Was the PS3 application developed internally by Netflix?
Netflix: Yes, with the help of the Sony team.
Can the Netflix application be installed to the PS3 hard dive from the disc? Or must the disc be inserted every time a user wants to access Netflix?
Continue reading Netflix: PS3 disc must remain in system until 2010 update; and other answers to your pressing questions
Netflix: PS3 disc must remain in system until 2010 update; and other answers to your pressing questions originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on October 26th, 2009 at 7:04pm by Alexander Sliwinski
Filed Under: Blu-ray Disc, Netflix, interview, ps3-firmware, ps3-firmware-update, psn, streaming, streaming-video, watch-instantly, xmb
