Sky Player may well be coming to consoles soon...
Sky's Director of OnDemand looks to next step in VOD...
Sky's Director of OnDemand, Griff Parry, has told TechRadar that the company is already looking to utilise people's games consoles to bring the best programmes to their televisions via the internet.
Parry, who has just pushed through a huge move from Sky to offer online-only subscription to its programmes without the need for a satellite dish via Sky Player TV, believes that using people's consoles to get video on demand from the internet to the television represents an 'interesting opportunity.'
"Currently consoles like the PlayStation 3 won't play the Sky Player because of the way we protect the content [through Microsoft's Silverlight]; so the PS3 wouldn't be able to cope with the DRM," said Parry as he showed off the new streaming live channels on Sky Player.
"However, I think games consoles are an interesting opportunity and it is something that we are exploring."
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Kevin writes: "Multi-GPU gaming was one of those things that seemed like a good idea for as long as it lasted. I mean honestly, the idea of a modular approach to graphics upgrades – be that SLI or CrossFire – was brilliant. I repeat, the idea was brilliant."
Im old school... when i hear the term SLI, I immediately think of 3dfx. I still have a pair of 12mb Monster V2's in an old rig. I never tried out the more modern take on SLI or Crossfire for that matter.
I mean, it was mostly for bragging rights. It was a very temperamental tech that improved with newer iterations, for sure. But folks like myself, who have used it, probably recall that troubleshooting was an integral part of the experience and the value that you got out of the setup was really low.
However, none of that mattered because it looked sick as hell on a well-built PC.
I remember doing my research at the time 😂 I got 2 GTX 460's, as they in SLI were meant to be better than the 480 at the time. Not all games were optimised at the time, which meant some games meant setting them up for 1 card alone. Never forget the time I came home from night shift, turned on my computer like normal, went and made a cuppa, come back and it was still off. Tried to turn on again, and one of the 460's caught fire... good times.
...when the first thing that's mentioned is that Sky Player won't be for the PS3 because of DRM issues?
bla bla bla sony could help sky make this happen
look at the PlayTv box they brought out
and they have some of the sky channels on there
i would not mind paying for a new box with a usb port for ps3 addon
Depends on what Sky's VOD service is like.
Besides, this is sky TV we're talking about, the pioneers of making you subscribe to a sports channel for Premier League Football then making some of those games pay per view on top of that.
If they feel there is money to be made and wanted to workwith Sony and Sony wanted to work with them then they'd make it happen. As it stands right now the PS3 isn't compatible with their DRM platform but that stuff can be worked around if both parties want to do it.
However with that said, the interview I just read from this site with a guy from Sony when asked about whether they were interested in offering the same kind of service that Ntflix and the 360 have, the answer was no because they feel their customers want to own the content.
Then again a recent FW update added VOD support for the console so who knows.