XBOX Live Update Preview Program accepting sign-ups

[jmood88]

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same here dude, this is just stupid. especially if i have to have the cable service to watch games. how stupid is that. if thats the case, wouldnt i just watch espn on my damn tv especially with ON DEMEND? smh

ESPN on demand doesn't exist on any cable service.

[DaveDQ]

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Guys with TWC and Satellite TV service. I have asked a TWC official and was told that unless you subscribe to BOTH RoadRunner and TWC TV service, you cannot access ESPN3 at all!

I brought this up earlier in the thread I could've sworn. I sent a complaint to the Better Business Bureau but I haven't heard back in the week since.

I think we are just screwed.

I have only RR and then DTV and I am getting ESPN on my 360 (with the update).

One thing I think is rather silly is the avatars at the bottom of the screen, doing animation loops. They need to take them out.

[RoyalBoyle78]

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ESPN feature is sweet, loving it so far.

[SuperBowlNachos]

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ESPN on demand doesn't exist on any cable service.

Mmmm yes it does. I know because I have it.

[jmood88]

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I guess I should've paid more attention when I looked it up. But anyway, if he has that then there's no reason for him to be complaining.

[ODogg]

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DaveDQ - I got the update last night and it says I cannot get ESPN3 as I don't have a correct provider, it did give me ESPN though. Are you getting both or just ESPN?

[bigfnjoe96]

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Not planning on getting Kinect anytime soon, but I really like the new Dashboard look. The font size is perfect IMO. Also loving the Netflix Dash.

[Boltman]

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I have only RR and then DTV and I am getting ESPN on my 360 (with the update).

One thing I think is rather silly is the avatars at the bottom of the screen, doing animation loops. They need to take them out.

You don't have to view the games like that, that is only if you want to.

So they don't need to take them out, you do. Simply take your avatar out and just watch the games normally.

Not planning on getting Kinect anytime soon, but I really like the new Dashboard look. The font size is perfect IMO. Also loving the Netflix Dash.

It was much needed to have the search function on Netflix. Thank goodness it is now there.

[Fiddy]

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i went from a local internet cable provider to ATT.. it will be up and running on friday. went from 45 bucks to 15 bucks for a year, then it jumps to 30. not bad IMO, still saving 15 bucks and now i will get to use espn3. woot woot!!

[Boltman]

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i went from a local internet cable provider to ATT.. it will be up and running on friday. went from 45 bucks to 15 bucks for a year, then it jumps to 30. not bad IMO, still saving 15 bucks and now i will get to use espn3. woot woot!!

You are going to love it, the update for Zune & Netflix isn't too bad either.

[Rawdeal28]

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I guess I should've paid more attention when I looked it up. But anyway, if he has that then there's no reason for him to be complaining.

i dont have time warner cable, but there saying u need to have it in order to see games on the xbox and i think thats just stupid because if had the cable service which also comes with On Demand there would be no point in needing to use it on the 360. i would just watch it on my TV! got me thinking about changing my ISP just because of this nonsense.

someone tell me other ISP's are forcing u to do this as well??

[Cusefan]

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i dont have time warner cable, but there saying u need to have it in order to see games on the xbox and i think thats just stupid because if had the cable service which also comes with On Demand there would be no point in needing to use it on the 360. i would just watch it on my TV! got me thinking about changing my ISP just because of this nonsense.

someone tell me other ISP's are forcing u to do this as well??

Even if you have TWC for TV and Internet, ESPN3 is still unavailable on Xbox. It freaken sucks

[Rawdeal28]

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Even if you have TWC for TV and Internet, ESPN3 is still unavailable on Xbox. It freaken sucks

so even if u have the cable service you still cant get it? wow.

so what the hell were they negotiating for??

[ODogg]

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Why does it show on the Espn3.com page that Roadrunner is an approved ISP then?

[ODogg]

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Here's an interesting article about all of this:

ESPN3: We Have a Deal, But It’s Going to Take Time to Implement

Since about thirty seconds after we signed the deal with Disney/ESPN last week, we’ve been getting the question:

When can we expect to see ESPN3?

The other question we’ve been getting has been:

Do I have to be a video subscriber to get ESPN3, or is it available to RoadRunner-only customers?

Here’s the deal — Time Warner Cable is really, really excited to use the Internet to enhance the video packages that our customers buy from us. ESPN3 allows us to do just that. Because we see ESPN3 as an extension of our video product, we are making its available to all of our customers who subscribe to ESPN, instead of tying it to customers’ broadband subscriptions. ESPN360 will not be available to RoadRunner only customers.

We think it makes more sense to enhance the video products that our customers have already signed up for rather than to impose the service on every single one of our broadband customers, regardless of their interest. There are those among you who may say “well hang on, I pay for TV channels I don’t want. How is this different?”

AS of right now, we think that the television and the Internet business are different. While you may be able to stream video online, it’s still video. Even though we all pay for a lot of TV channels we don’t watch, the amount of TV channels available to a cable customer is finite — in Brooklyn, I get hundreds of channels. There are a hell of a lot more web sites that I don’t visit than there are TV channels I don’t watch. I can’t even imagine what would happen if you had to start paying for web sites you don’t use.

No matter what you might think, none of us want this to come true.

We do not currently have a concrete timeline for when ESPN3 will be available to our customers. Here’s why:

Time Warner Cable customers will have to authenticate to see ESPN3 — in other words, log into the site with a username and password much the same way that you’d use My Services or pay a bill. When you do this, computers on our backend infrastructure and on ESPN’s backend infrastructure perform a rapid, complicated handshake and after a few seconds you’re watching all the sports you can handle.

That last sentence was very easy for me to type and is very complicated to actually implement. Authenticated video on this scale is new for us, and it’s new for ESPN, too. It’s new for the entire MSO business. We’ve done some stuff like this with our TV Everywhere trials and also with the most recent winter Olympics. We learned a lot from both of those experiences, and we’re applying these lessons to this, too.

Both Time Warner Cable and ESPN have teams working as hard as humans can work in order to make this happen. Unfortunately, I don’t know how long it will take to make this happen. As many of you in the technology community know, things can work perfectly in a dev environment, work fine in beta, and then go completely pear-shaped in a live environment.

I know this is frustrating to anxious fans, but please keep in mind that an authenticated video offering of this size and scope is unprecedented in our industry. Once we figure out how to make this work for all of our customers, the linear feeds of ESPN 1, ESPN2, and ESPNU will also be available to our customers online — so there is that to look forward to.

We understand that there may be games slated to appear on ESPN3.com that are of particular importance to certain geographic areas. Where that is the case we are working hard with ESPN to find an alternate way for our customers to see those games.

We hope you understand our position here. We’re working as hard as we can right now to bring you the content you want, but it’s going to take a little time to make it work right from an operations perspective. We’re sorry if this causes any inconvenience.

https://www.twcableuntangled.com/2010/09/espn3-we-have-a-deal-but-its-going-to-take-time-to-implement/