spd2demun wrote:Could this be another reason? Just received in my email, and know that you already told us this was coming.
You say it. Xbox finds it.
Actually, the November dashboard update IS the whole reason that Microsoft is saying you will need a gold account for having UVerse TV on your Xbox.
texasguy37
Logical_Dolphin wrote:I already have several unused 1 year membership cards. Up until now I had no need to activate them because I don't play online or use Netflix or Hulu. So what I am going to do is activate one and then pay the $40 difference for a family pack, and then I'll have 4 Gold memberships.
Winning!
I might be wrong on this but the family pack will take your remaining time and convert 2 months into 1 month of a family pack. So if you load one year, you'll still be on the hook for half the cost. I can't remember how much I had to pay when I converted to a family pack a few months back.
americangame wrote:
Logical_Dolphin wrote:I already have several unused 1 year membership cards. Up until now I had no need to activate them because I don't play online or use Netflix or Hulu. So what I am going to do is activate one and then pay the $40 difference for a family pack, and then I'll have 4 Gold memberships.
Winning!
I might be wrong on this but the family pack will take your remaining time and convert 2 months into 1 month of a family pack. So if you load one year, you'll still be on the hook for half the cost. I can't remember how much I had to pay when I converted to a family pack a few months back.
That conversion happens when you bring in a family member whom already has a Gold account and you fold them into a family plan. If you have a pre-existing Gold account and want to convert it into a Gold one, the amount you pay gets discounted by $5 for each month you have remaining on your single Gold account.
This sure makes it sound like we will see voice-controlled TV using Kinect, on UV...soon? I wonder who on here is beta testing for UV? 
edit--forgot to ask, do you think they'll be making an app for iPhone or Android?
...Microsoft has also developed a free companion app for Windows Phone users that can be used as a remote and enables people to browse and launch shows, movies, games and music from their smartphone; see friend activity; purchase media; and navigate the Xbox console. The app launches on December 6.
Logical_Dolphin wrote:
americangame wrote:
Logical_Dolphin wrote:I don't think that the Uverse update is happening right away with the new dash update. Microsoft has just announced that the Verizon update isn't happening until "later in December" and the Comcast update isn't happening until "Early 2012". Given that the (unseen) Uverse update is going to be more sophisticated than either one of those other TV services, it is probably go to be a while before that update comes to fruition...
If you also read on there it claims that the Epix, Dailymotion,UFC, and SciFi apps won't launch until December. For me I've already gotten those apps on my Xbox with the new Dashboard beta.
You also have to remember that Microsoft owns the Mediaroom platform that U-Verse runs on. The ability for them to have that ready to go tomorrow is much greater than on Verizon and Comcast's services since they have to integrate into those services.
I'm more lieky to believe that when the Verizon Kinect update is released, the AT&T update will be released at the same time.
I guess it depends on whom you believe is "really in control". Mediaroom was available for the Xbox (and PC) about a year before at&t decieded to roll it out. I'm sure that the sofware may be ready in some sort of capacity, but I am sure that at&t wants to brand it and test it out more before they roll it out, and allow new customers to use the service on the Xbox.
I have seen plenty of instances of Mediaroom/Uverse on the Xbox shown/demonstrated before it was rolled out, but not this time. Since the Comcast/Verizon services are not full instances of Mediaroom, I would think they would be easier to implement than revamping the Uverse implentation.
I guess we will see in less than 24hrs....
AT&T was one of the first groups to implement the Xbox STB for all of the mediaroom platforms. I'm not saying that the Kinect Uverse integration will happen tomorrow, I'm saying that it will happen at the same time or earlier than Verizon and Comcast's integration.
spd2demun wrote:
This sure makes it sound like we will see voice-controlled TV using Kinect, on UV...soon? I wonder who on here is beta testing for UV?
edit--forgot to ask, do you think they'll be making an app for iPhone or Android?
...Microsoft has also developed a free companion app for Windows Phone users that can be used as a remote and enables people to browse and launch shows, movies, games and music from their smartphone; see friend activity; purchase media; and navigate the Xbox console. The app launches on December 6.
I'm on the beta for the new dashboard that's coming out tomorrow, but there isn't any new integration with U-Verse that wasn't there with the old dashboard. And no I don't think that there will be an official Android or iPhone app for the Xbox Companion, but I do see some app maker attempting to make a copy for each of those platforms.
spd2demun wrote:This sure makes it sound like we will see voice-controlled TV using Kinect, on UV...soon? I wonder who on here is beta testing for UV?
edit--forgot to ask, do you think they'll be making an app for iPhone or Android?
...Microsoft has also developed a free companion app for Windows Phone users that can be used as a remote and enables people to browse and launch shows, movies, games and music from their smartphone; see friend activity; purchase media; and navigate the Xbox console. The app launches on December 6.
I doubt that Microsoft will be making an iPhone or Android App (at least not right away), since they are trying to promote their own Windows mobile platform.
Microsoft already made a simular app for the Windows phone last year to integrate with their Mediaroom platform, but at&t made their own app for iPhone that allowed you to program your DVR and watch a selection of TV shows, and there are new apps like BuddyTV that allows you to use your iphone as a remote control that can control the Uverse DVR or any Uverse STB, including Xbox...
Yes, I know about those and have them already. 
But what are your thoughts on controlling the UV programming via Kinect?
Eventually...
Logical_Dolphin wrote:
spd2demun wrote:This sure makes it sound like we will see voice-controlled TV using Kinect, on UV...soon? I wonder who on here is beta testing for UV?
edit--forgot to ask, do you think they'll be making an app for iPhone or Android?
...Microsoft has also developed a free companion app for Windows Phone users that can be used as a remote and enables people to browse and launch shows, movies, games and music from their smartphone; see friend activity; purchase media; and navigate the Xbox console. The app launches on December 6.
I doubt that Microsoft will be making an iPhone or Android App (at least not right away), since they are trying to promote their own Windows mobile platform.
Microsoft already made a simular app for the Windows phone last year to integrate with their Mediaroom platform, but at&t made their own app for iPhone that allowed you to program your DVR and watch a selection of TV shows, and there are new apps like BuddyTV that allows you to use your iphone as a remote control that can control the Uverse DVR or any Uverse STB, including Xbox...
Microsoft made an app for Mediaroom for Windows Phone? If they did they never released it onto the marketplace for anyone to use. AT&T has a U-Verse app on the marketplace that work similart ot the early version of the U-Verse app for the iPhone.
