Xbox Live users get WatchESPN app

[Towen7]

The app allows you to view all ESPN networks on the xBox or portible device but you need to be an ESPN subscriber through a cable or SAT provider...

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After too long spent with just ade­quate ESPN con­tent on Xbox Live, users can now get the full deal with the Watch­ES­PN app. The app pro­vides cov­er­age of all ESPN chan­nels, as well as a vari­ety of other offer­ings, includ­ing high­lights and replays. This comes after it was orig­i­nal­ly announced this past sum­mer.

Users can now watch ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPNU, Buzzer Beat­er, and Goal Line. Fea­tures include split screen, my sports, mini guide, con­trol via Kinect, inter­ac­tive ESPN Bot­tom­Line, and reminders. Con­tent can be watched in high-definition, includ­ing high­lights and replays, while the entire sys­tem can be con­trolled with voice and motion.

The Split Screen fea­ture allows users to watch two games at once, or to split the con­tent up, such as a game in one win­dow and high­lights in anoth­er. Both screens can be con­trolled inde­pen­dent of each other, such as paus­ing one screen while you ded­i­cate your atten­tion to the other. The con­trol­ling can be done via Kinect, allow­ing you to go hands-free.

Next up is the Mini Guide, which gives users sports con­tent pre­views and quick access at the bot­tom of the screen, mak­ing it easy to tog­gle between games. Break­ing news is deliv­ered via Bot­tom­Line, which includes live alerts. Reminders are also tossed into the mix, allow­ing users to tag games and set up reminders."

 

[Barney]

Just rub it in Towen bscene-buttred: . But I do wonder why anyone would watch ESPN off their xbox since they have to pay a provider (DSS or Cable or Uverse or etc) for ESPN ? You don't get those channels with your payed provider ? If not, what are you paying for ? So now you have to pay Time Warner Cable (for programing & internet) & Microsoft for xbox gold...it never will end.
I'll keep my free OTA. I have no need for 300 channels that I won't watch & pay for equipment I won't own, pay rent & ins for the equipment that I won't own, ...........
Maybe someday we can just pay for ESPN streaming (but since Walt Disney owns it....it'll be too expensive....) :violin:

 

[Towen7]

A lot of people have Xboxes where they dont have a regular STB. The app also provides functions that "regular" ESPN doesn't, like split screens.

 

[lulimet]

I always tell people that the ESPN app alone makes paying for xbox live worth it.

 

[Barney]

I always tell people that the ESPN app alone makes paying for xbox live worth it.

How much do you pay (including taxes. rental, ins etc) for your programming sub ?

 

[lulimet]

I have the phone/internet/tv bundle with Verizon Fios. $130 a month and that includes the 3 STBs.

 

[Barney]

I have the phone/internet/tv bundle with Verizon Fios. $130 a month and that includes the 3 STBs.

Time Warner Cable has the digital phone/internet(10Mbs)/tv bundle for close to $100(plus rental fees for STB's & taxes). But this is the introductry price, after a year, goes to full price which is alot more than you are paying. DirecTV & Dish have the same kind-of-deals (3 months etc). When the full price kicks in................get ready, they place their hands on your shoulders, don't kiss the back of your neck, & pound it to you.
I pray Fios is different for you.
My Time Warner Cable turbo Roadrunner internet (20Mbs) was $29.99 a month.............after a year, went to full price last year to $63.23 & I get a $5 discount after calling. Starting this month it went-up again...$67.53.

 

[lulimet]

My price is the 2 year agreement price. It will go up after two years, but what I do is call them to return the equipment at the end of the last month of the contract and call them again 2 or 3 days after I drop them, and they give me a new deal as a new customer.