VANCOUVER – Telus’ Optik TV customers have a new option for their set top boxes – an Xbox 360.
With the gaming and entertainment unit, Optik TV customers can use it to enable PVR Anywhere features, such as scheduling the recording of up to three shows simultaneously on one PVR unit. The Microsoft Mediaroom software that powers Optik TV now also supports delivery of Optik TV to the Xbox 360 to provide functionality for watching television anywhere in the home, as well as all the gaming.
“We are blazing a trail as the first provider in North America to offer this innovative capability with Xbox 360 and Optik TV. The integration of the Optik TV service, powered by Microsoft Mediaroom, with the Xbox 360 will deliver increased flexibility and enhance our customers’ entertainment experience,” said Telus president and CEO Darren Entwistle. “We continue to offer the latest and greatest technologies available for home entertainment systems through this industry-leading capability that Canadians are receiving first.”
Customers of Optik TV can use an Xbox 360 as a digital set top box to:
• Watch any of Optik TV’s over 400 digital channels, including over 50 in HD;
• Watch any shows they have recorded on their Optik HD PVR digital box;
• Use PVR Anywhere to record up to 3 live shows simultaneously from any room
• Pause a recorded program in one room and pick it up from the same spot in a different room
• Get PVR functionality from any TV when watching recorded programs – Pause, replay, rewind, fast-forward.
