Microsoft has a partnership with RTL, Eredivisie Live and cinema chain Path lwa. The three companies will make an app for the Xbox 360, so their tv programs and movies via the console. With Eredivisie Live and the Path to lwa is that according to pay-per-view.
According to Microsoft, the services of the three Dutch entertainmentpartners in the course of this autumn and next spring be experienced on the Xbox 360. The three media companies hope to in the coming months, an app available for the console.
RTL with RTL XL, an app that allows broadcasts of all the RTL channels back. With the app Eredivisie Live matches, live and be viewed, although there per match to be paid. There is therefore no subscription is needed for the races to be able to view. Also Pathé ask at the Pathé at Home, the app of the cinema chain, money by looking at film. The movies are also in hd available. How much viewing of a movie or game cost, is not yet known. There is an Xbox Live Gold subscription is needed to the apps to use. The Xbox 360 already has apps for YouTube, Dailymotion, Muzu.tv, Wall Street Journal, and the American sports, MLB and NBA.
At the same time with Windows 8, Microsoft introduced SmartGlass, which allows the Xbox 360 to control it from a tablet or mobile phone. There are SmartGlass apps for Windows Phone 8, iOS and Android. Also, Xbox 360 apps as that of RTL, Eredivisie Live and Pathé can be operated.
Demonstration of SmartGlass