Well Microsoft announced that British Telecom will be the first company for IPTV on the Xbox 360. The BBC got now some news about the Xbox 360 set up box and the IPTV from British Telecom at all. There are two interesting things according to the BBC. It will not be possible to record movies, shows or even commercial breaks. On the other side it will not feature live shows or events so as example they will feature “near-live FA premier League football matches “. The important thing here is the near, no exactly amount of time delay but still only near so there are like 362 other options that are really live? I don't like football, but I would never want to see a F1 race or American football game only “nearly-live”. It is not clear for the moment if it is a issue with the console or only with British Telecom, but MS is performing only well in the UK so that might not be very positiv for them.

Sony announced already last year at the GC in Germany some sort of IPTV so that the PS3 can be used as tv tuner and announced as partner Sky. Since then there where no news, but as far as I remember Sony mentioned that it would be possible to record while using the PS3 as tv tuner. The service should launch this year. I only hope that a software update or some extra hardware device would do the job because it looks like for the Xbox 360 BT IPTV service there is an extra console that is used as set up box and so far there are no details if that works also fine with normal Xbox 360 console versions.

In other other, and better news, there are new characters for the next Soulcalibur revealed. It's hard to believe but Soulcalibur IV will feature Star Wars characters. At least Darth Vader and Yoda will be in the game. It's not new that characters from other games like Heihachi are in the game, but now Star Wars characters that could be funny especially if you can use some Force things with Vader like he does in the movies. Looks like that's the first Soulcalibur that I will buy, because so far the screens didn't showed something special besides of big and half naked boobs. I can see them in real life so that was never a reason to buy the game, but Darth “the destroyer of all human mankind” Vader and Yoda “I speak funny” Yoda that's a reason. Maybe we get finally then with Soulcalibur V Cloud, Squall and Raiden (as shown in the MGS4 trailers not the gay MGS2 version of Raiden).

Link IPTV --> Here

So long