The operator proposes a new service to its customers when Microsoft continues its operation "all forms of entertainment" on his console.

Starting tomorrow, owners of the Orange Livebox will be able to enjoy television via their Xbox 360. Only requirements to receive TV from Orange on the console: a subscription to Xbox Live Gold and be connected to the Livebox. Thirty channels will be available by downloading the application on the Microsoft machine, the DTT channels and bouquets Extra, Sport and Orange cinema series available for existing customers of these programs on their Livebox. The offer will soon be enlarged by additional channels, television on demand and video on demand.

With this agreement, Orange hopes to boost its television service and make the right car. "We are a consumer market of television changing, so we explore a number of tracks. Today, we innovate, we'll see how it evolves," said Alice Holzman, Director Consumer Marketing at Orange France , noting that Orange TV on Xbox 360 should be considered as "a television supplement". Completed negotiations for the selection of programs in homes with a Livebox and an Xbox 360, it can now serve as the second decoder.



Anxious to multiply the forms of entertainment on its platform, Microsoft is already associated with Canal + and M6, and offers a VOD service with Zune, the manufacturer goes into high gear with Orange TV, a service provider Internet with its many strings. Both brands have signed a mutual exclusivity of one year, Microsoft and Orange are leaving time to refine their services before going to negotiate with the competition.

The significant detail of this new application is the navigation with Kinect that will end the daily drama of many French homes, namely the disappearance of the remote when switching programs. Indeed, the motion sensor to enable Microsoft to choose the chains of a wave of his hand or his voice. All is not perfect, zapping manual shall be only with the previous or next channel, for example, but navigation is still fluid enough to take effect before the family or friends.


This service is exclusively for Orange customers, the goal is clear and assumed by the two partners, recruit new users. Exchange of favors, consoles and accessories Microsoft motion controller will be sold tomorrow in thirty stores Orange. Prospective purchasers of an Xbox 360 and Kinect in Orange stores will even enjoy a substantial reduction in addition. Between new friends, we must help each other.

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