This week I have been having lots of fun with the new Xbox live features. I am loving the fact that it actually understands my Scottish Glaswegian accent and I can even get the Xbox to do things on whilst sitting my lazy behind on the couch and my controller is on the mantle. I am very impressed, no other voice activated software works anywhere near as well as this does.
Being an Xbox Ambassador, the feature we were trying out was watching a movie on Xbox live. I have never watched a movie on a games console before so I thought I’d give it a go. We already had a subscription to Love Film in the past, so I reactivated it and perused the titles available. There are a lot of films available to stream but there wasn’t as large a choice as I hoped. Still there are some good ones on there. I also have a Xbox Live Gold Membership discount below.
I chose Happy Feet. I watched it with my little one when I was off work on Tuesday. We had so much fun watching it. What’s not to like about dancing penguins.
It was easy and quick to sign up, the only thing is you can’t sign up on the xbox this has to be done on the pc or laptop. A small app has to be downloaded to the Xbox itself, which takes less than a minute and you are good to go. Not only that it is extremely easy to pick a film and it steams seamlessly. I had absolutely no issues what so ever. I will definitely do this again. Saturday night, date night with hubby, my choice. Ok, I’ll let him have some say. He can choose the food.
My other half is an online gaming addict, but shhh don’t tell him I said that. To be honest I don’t mind, gives me peace and quiet to blog or read. However, last night whilst he was playing some first person shooter game I thought I would say switch off to the Xbox. This would have annoyed him immensely, so I tweeted about it instead. I wanted to watch some telly, so the genius that is Sian over at MummyTips came to my rescue and told me I could switch it off via the website. Now that’s sneaky. So I did… Yes I actually did… I pleaded my innocence, so this is our little secret, shhhh.
I have a very special off for my wonderful readers, if you go to our page on the Xbox site you will find an option to get 3 months Xbox Live Gold for half price. All you have to do is enter my special code which is Ss3nKM8nn. Let me know if you have any problems with this, I am sure you won’t. Now go enjoy all the wonderful new features of Xbox Live.
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