Microsoft didn't announce a partnership with Hulu during its E3 2010 press briefing as rumors suggested, but it did reveal a partnership with ESPN that will bring on-demand NCAA, NBA, MLB and soccer sporting events to Xbox Live.
The look at the new sports-themed channel wasn't brisk at the briefing, but it didn't dive into the service's possible per-show cost or reveal how up-to-the-minute the broadcasts would be (see update). However, it was said that the service's wrapper is set to be free for Xbox Live Gold members and will provide around 3,500 sporting events to users.
Here's the announcement trailer created by ESPN for the upcoming partnership:
Kinect voice functionality, which includes rewind and pausing, will be supported alongside show-themed trivia and polls.
UPDATE: This reveal was a bit...light on the details. According to Destructoid, this deal essentially brings ESPN3 to the Xbox 360. This means that you'll only be able to get the content of this channel if your ISP includes ESPN3. Engadget has the full list of participating providers.
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But baseball on my Xbox for free? I'll take it :)
but we got sports... cool...
Doesn't seem like it would have a per-show cost. Seems more like EPSN 3/60 made to run on a xbox. Up-to-the-minute stuff is shown on ESPN 3/60, so I would assume it would be here too.
thats what I was thinking. I just think it will be so cool to use Kinect to watch sports and not have to change the channel.
"possible per-show cost" No thanks. I was interested until then.
doubt it , licensing for all of this would be vastly different for europe.
Then again I'm in Canada and I'm sure they have no plans on bringing this outside of the US.
Still kinda cool though.