http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/14/xbox-espn/Xbox 360 Gets Live Sports In HD From ESPN. Canceling My Cable In 5, 4, 3…by MG Siegler on Jun 14, 2010Everyone is busy talking about Microsoft Kinect (the project formerly known as Natal), but to me, some much bigger news just dropped at E3 from Microsoft: ESPN live sports access. Simply put: this was the only thing holding me back from completely canceling my cable subscription. As soon as this goes live, I’m done with cable forever.No, this live sporting access won’t be entirely free, but it’s one hell of a deal. You simply have be an Xbox Live Gold member (about $50 a year), and you’ll get access to over 3,500 live events a year. In HD. Did I mention it was $50 a year? My cable bill is currently double that — a month.According to BusinessofVideo.com: Content includes college basketball, college football, soccer, MLB and NBA amongst others.It’s hard to overstate just how big this news is for people fed up for cable. A little over a year ago I tried to cancel my cable after being fed up with Comcast’s sub-par (a nice way of saying it) service and absurd prices. I was fine using only my Xbox 360, Apple TV, and computer for all my content for several months. One thing I severely missed though was live sports. As crazy as it sounds, there’s only so many times you can drag yourself to a bar on a weeknight to watch every game you want to see.So when I moved a few months ago, I signed up for cable again (this time without Comcast, thankfully). Once again, I find the only thing I regularly watch on cable is live sports — so I’m effectively paying $100 a month for that privilege since the cable companies still refuse to do a-la-carte packages where you can choose only the channels you want. With this new Xbox Live ESPN service, I can officially cancel cable — and never look back.One thing not mentioned in the announcement was the biggest sports league in the U.S.: the NFL. Still, if I only have to drag myself to bars to watch those games, I’ll be a happy camper.Back in December, when it looked like Apple was on the verge of talking some of the television networks into doing subscription-based TV packages through iTunes, I wrote that Apple may be on the verge of kneecapping the cable industry. Those deals have yet to come to fruition. And so their rival Microsoft beat them to the knee bashing. As long as I can throw that crappy cable box and its piece of garbage remote out the window, I don’t care who destroys big cable’s monopoly, I just care that it’s done.
I am in the exact same boat as the author of this article. I download all of my TV shows, and I could get a USB HDTV Tuner for dirt cheap for CBS games, etc. Like this guy, the only thing keeping me from saving $50 a month on my cable bill (for a shitty service since I switched from DirectTV to Charter in an effort to save money), has been this.
Good find. Unfortunately the history channel, scifi, and cartoon network have me by the short and curleys. I will not be dropping cable anytime soon.
Bit torrents, mothafucka.http://ezrss.it/shows/
Awesome...some more shit that you won't be able to do on your 360 because it keeps giving you the "Ring of Death". Should be fantastic.
Red rings of death have not been an issue since the changed boards 18 months ago. Only the remaining old models that did not have the new board are still having that issue.
It's a color we know so well, but it looks like Microsoft would like to dissociate itself from its RROD heritage, or perhaps just ran out of red LEDs: the new Xbox 360 only has a green ring around its power button, so even if you wrap the thing in a blanket and set it on fire, it won't be flashing red to tell you how it feels.
With the new one you definitely won't have to worry about the red rings of death.
Yea I saw that and thought the same thing. Good marketing foresight on their part I guess.Explored some of the ESPN dealio last night. Will be very interesting to see how it's implemented.
So....we feeling good about this tupperware dealio?
So..."Green" Ring of Death. Got it, no more Red lights....Green means go, or all of my boards are fuckin' melting because you have me powered on all Damn day and night.
Why are you so angry at Microsoft?
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