The On10 crew at Microsoft on Sunday published a video teasing us with how IPTV will work on the Xbox 360. This was sort of pre CES2007 and it’s being showed off there. IPTV along with Windows Home Server intrigue me. It will be available by year end, which sounds to me like holiday 2007.

I covered things to do without TV quite a bit last week and how we haven’t missed it that much, but must admit Live TV through the Xbox 360 with PVR could definitely bring us back. I’m almost embarassed admitting that we’ll seriously consider buying a third Xbox 360 for our bedroom and live account to go next to the PS3. If we did do that, it would be a first as we’ve never bought three console systems before. We bought three Nintendo DS portable systems. To increase the likelihood we’d buy a third Xbox 360 and pay again for a TV a few things would be needed.

Xbox 360 future wish list
- lower the cost. We’ve already paid $900 for two Xbox 360. Would be nice to pay $250 or less for a cooler, better one.
- HDMI port please (the rumor is it is coming)
- much bigger hard drive or the ability to tap into the Windows Media Server for additional storage. 20GB is a joke
- Xbox 360 needs to add a web browser please. I’d like to be able to check my email, stocks, what’s playing at the movie theater and RSS Reader without having to switch game systems (to the PS3)
- a sensible pricing plan for the Live TV option. Next to having enough storage, this weighs in as the second most important item I’d want to see before paying for TV again.

We don’t need a package price with a bunch of crap channels we won’t watch. Give us a la carte options at a lower cost. Give us the local over the air networks for free or very low cost. As for what I’d think would be “sensible” $5/month for local channel HD access and $1/month a channel for additional channels. Microsoft has announced no prices yet.

Surely, I’m missing a few other important Xbox 360 wish list items above? What new features would make you buy either another or your very first Xbox 360 system?

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