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Xbox Live's Sky Player to support Kinect voice commands

by David Hinkle on Sep 27th 2010 9:30PM

Hey, you UK folks may not have Netflix over there, but you've got the next best thing: Sky Player. Eurogamer reports that Kinect voice commands -- one of the most lauded pieces of functionality in the upcoming Microsoft peripheral -- are coming to the Sky Player streaming service. Even better, the two will play nice right at Kinect launch in Europe, on November 10.

According to Eurogamer, users will be able to use voice commands to pause, rewind, fast-forward, play and stop, much like the integration detailed back during E3, though there's currently no official word from Sky Player. We're currently reaching out and will let you know what we hear back.

Source: Eurogamer

Tags: kinect, microsoft, microsoft-kinect, sky-player, voice-commands, xbox

Reader Comments (24)

While this in no netflix, it is still a step in the right direction and I'm sure alot of people will have fun with this. However how hard is it to bring netflix to european xbox consoles?

@AltairtheAssassinwhokillstuff

The reason Netflix isn't in Europe is because the Netflix company is based in the US & the amount of money it would cost to ship out DVDs to everyone who would have Netflix in Europe would literally make them bankrupt in a few years.

@Prboi uhhhh DVDs?? so they couldnt go Streaming only in the EU like they do in Canada?? Netflix will be in the EU within a year....watch...streaming only....

Problem would be the movies and tv shows distribution rights. See how long it took for Canada to get it? Now, in total, that's only 2 countries (USA & Canada). This time, think of each and all countries in the EU.

@AltairtheAssassinwhokillstuff

Its all about licensing and distribution rights, aka "who gets money."

I doubt the CEO's of Netflix are staying out of Europe because they hate European money. Theres probably tons of legal issues, although Im no expert.

@el serpiente

Right now, as popular as Netflix is, they can't afford to build a center specifically in Europe at this time. So shipping movies to them would be the only other alternative. & about the streaming only in Europe, there are a lot of options to stream on Netflix but not every show/movie is streamable. Why would they have Americans full access to streaming & DVD rentals while Europe only has streaming. It's just a bit of a pickle & until they gather enough resources then they'll open up to the rest of the world. Or maybe there just isn't enough demand for Netflix in Europe.

@AltairtheAssassinwhokillstuff

As mentioned above Netflix doesn't have a presence in the EU at the moment as it is only in the US and Canada. What I can't work out is why MS haven't been able to get a partnership with Lovefilm and produce an app. As Lovefilm already has a presence in a few EU countries and offer a streaming option on their site I don't understand why the next step isn't to get a Live app going.

@Prboi Well they are planing to cut costs with the whole DVD business. So now we are all going to be equal and I imagine with all that extra revenue they will take aim at Europe soon. "We are looking at adding a streaming-only option for the USA over the coming months" -Netflix Blog

http://blog.netflix.com/2010/09/apologies.html

@Metalfacedoom

Well that's a good move & bad move in my book. Good in that now people won't have to order DVD's anymore & wait for them to come. Bad as in now it people would have to wait until the movie is available for stream since they can't order the DVD by mail.

That's actually pretty cool.

Makes me wish Netflix had that feature

Did anyone read this before it was posted? "Hey, you *UK guys/folks (either or, I suppose) *might not have Netflix..."

@Assmar

No idea what happened with that, but it's been fixed. Thanks for the heads up!

@Assmar

Pictures are cooler, Who needs reading.

Since when is voice commands a good method of controling the TV, I don't even use the feature on my cell phone. It's a nice option but it's not a good long use feature

@PR0F3TA

*Talking to a friend while a movie is playing

"You know, when the Xbox stops..."

*Xbox 360 turns off

"FFFFFFUUUUUUUU-"

nice....I'm sure the 5,000 or so people that buy Kinect in the EU will be happy....I mean I doubt more than that will buy it since its nerfed in that area

@Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi

Yeah. Seems a lot don't remember that Kinect is extremely limited in language recognition and territory availability.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/09/01/kinect-voice-control-not-available-in-some-countries-until-sprin/

@Ballistic H

Guess MS was late in the localization department

I actually want a feature like this on the NA version

Skynet confirmed.

SKY is expensive, about £41 a month for the full package (~$65), if sports is your thing then its great..

Personally I prefer freeview, doesn't cost anything , has good content and PlayTV is really good. Most of the "great" tv shows end up on the freeview channels.

I thought LoveFilm was supposed to be setting up an equivalent service on PS3 and Wii?

You know EU is much more than just the UK.

THe Sky Player will be available ONLY in the UK, not the whole EU...

EU != UK

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Posted: Sep 27th 2010 9:33PM AltairtheAssassinwhokillstuff said

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