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Microsoft's Xbox Live Video: HDTV and HD movie downloads for your 360
engadget.com — "The Xbox 360 will be among the first mass-market devices able to download high def television programs -- and the first we know of in the states able to download HD movies. The service is called Xbox Live Video, and the fall update enables customers to spend their Microsoft points on standard and HD television from CBS, MTV..."
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- neiltc13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I'm going to take a wild guess and say that this, like the iTunes Movies and TV Shows will bypass other countries in the world. :(
- latova, on 10/12/2007, -3/+77Let me be the first to say, screw HD-DVD and screw Blu-ray. Online content delivery is where it's at.
- estvir, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Yeah, I suspect us Australians and others will get borked but at least we can just create another Live accnt and list US as the country though there may be problems in regards to buying things.
- 23r17i05o42n, on 10/12/2007, -56/+18Yet another cool thing Nintendo can't do. Suck it.
- EXreaction, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14@23r17i05o42n
I would block you, but then I couldn't bury your foolish comments. - kazzyD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Here are some more details and some more info on the release:
http://www.computers.net/2006/11/microsoft_xbox_.html - kirashira, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Whats the point of downloading HD-DVD movies if you can't burn them? On a 20 gb hardrive how many HD-DVD movies are you gonna be able to hold? Unless they make it so the movies you bought to download are free to redownload on your account, kinda like the Playstation Online game download scheme.
- Rickler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"TV shows will go for 240 MS points while movie downloads will ring up at 320 MS points each."
240 MS points is 3 USD
320 MS points is 4 USD
Time to try out that 360 hard drive mod; clone and pop in a 2.5" 200gig sata drive :)
http://360.xbox-hq.com/xbox-tutorials-17.html - piper999, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You download the videos to your PC then stream them to your 360 so the 20GB limit doesn'y apply.
- hohead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Official Xbox Press Release:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/2006/20061106-moviestv.htm
- G5Unit91, on 10/12/2007, -25/+420gb will barely hold a TV show?
- G5Unit91, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Oh sorry, read the article and it says a movie will take up 5gb.(=
- Surreptitious, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Yea so that means you can hold 2.
- posure, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3If an HD movie is 5gb it is going to compressed to *****. I hope that is not true.
- interiot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+95 gigs means the content will be quite a bit more compressed than BluRay / HDDVD, so there's still a reason to go with physical media.
- ninjasquirrel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2If they were to release a Divx/Xvid codec, you can easily compress a TV show to fit into less than a gig and still be in HD, or at least near enough that you won't be able to tell the difference.
- zMastaa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38This must be a true sign of a bigger HDD soon to come
- EComni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I think they're *obligated* to come out with a bigger HDD now. At this point, they'd be crazy to offer HD video downloads and keep people locked in with their 20GB drive.
- MattR, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I think it would be great if they would allow networked storage, download a show or movie form XBOX Live to your computer hard drive and access it without having to delete any of your Arcade or saved games. But where’s the money in that
- chubbymidget, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This was my first thought. With demo and other download content and now this I see my hdd filling quick.
- juanotejano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm going to predict the ability to use a usb hard drive in the near future, there is no way they can sell these movies if we need to buy another, bigger, hard drive just to have the ability to watch two movies when we want.
- FuzzyBunny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@MattR
The article says that you will be able to re-download TV shows after you delete them from your HDD. While not exactly networked storage, the effect is similar. - tuxidomasx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i think this may even be feasible without having them support it directly.
*queue mystery music*
because, at this very moment.... in the BACK of my DVR...there is
a SATA port!
*queue C-flat Orchestra Hit*
one day when i get a longer SATA cable, imma plug that in and see what its all about. - indirect, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1tuxidomasx, I'm guessing you have a silver Motorola cable box like me. Let's hope the cable service has it enabled. I've been recording through firewire since they've had it enabled a couple years ago. woot.
- neiltc13, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21Before anyone chips in and claims that the PS3 would be better suited to this purpose, remember that many of the PS3's games are going to eat up 5 or even 10GB of space just to give the "best experience". What are you going to do with the few hundred megabytes of space left over once you've got a few PS3 games sitting on your shelf, huh?
- sullyj, on 10/12/2007, -24/+4Bummer for you, Sony is offering us a choice.
2.5 Serial ATA vs. A Toaster
- sullyj, on 10/12/2007, -24/+4Bummer for you, Sony is offering us a choice.
- ridinlow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This is awesome news....Hopefully the HD offerings are good quality and hopefully this leads to more content being available on live like the rumored directv tab
- Nezzari, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36Very nice Microsoft, very nice. Microsoft is really excelling in one particular area : Options.
If people want to have copies of HD movies, there is HD-DVD. If they would rather digital distribution, they have this.- 98acura, on 10/12/2007, -37/+24...and with all of those options comes more of a price tag.. Hell, at least sony just bends you over the cash register and rams it home, microsoft starts teasing you with all these options, next thing you know you wake up with a xbox360 burning a hole in your floor, your head full of a horrible whirring noise, and all you can really see are some red rings, meanwhile nintendo is over in the corner waving their "wii-tarded wii-mote" around in a typical jerkoff motion..
Im gonna get buried like crazy, i just pissed off every fanboy there is, every fan boy's mama is gonna bury me! - fugazi, on 10/12/2007, -13/+7That was hilarious. I don't see how anyone can bury that.
- yournamehere, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15you're not pissing anyone off as much as making no sense. i'd rather have the option than to be forced to pay for something i may never use
- contradictator, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Well you're actually being buried because you just ranted and raved and insulted everyone without any attempt to make a point. Lack of sense + lame attitude = abundance of buried.
- stubadub, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Not to mention it wasn't that funny, either.
- 98acura, on 10/12/2007, -37/+24...and with all of those options comes more of a price tag.. Hell, at least sony just bends you over the cash register and rams it home, microsoft starts teasing you with all these options, next thing you know you wake up with a xbox360 burning a hole in your floor, your head full of a horrible whirring noise, and all you can really see are some red rings, meanwhile nintendo is over in the corner waving their "wii-tarded wii-mote" around in a typical jerkoff motion..
- imtheruler2, on 10/12/2007, -9/+9Microsoft has announced a larger Hard Drive at X06 in Korea. I dont know if it is coming to the US but I assume it will - link - http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/12039/Microsoft-Announces-100-GB-Xbox-360-HDD-at-Korean-X06/
- contradictator, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=25072731
It's probable, but no real official word yet. - cell00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It was a photoshop, unfortunately.
- contradictator, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=25072731
- Surreptitious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Damnit Microsoft, wheres are 500 gb hard drives at?
- KMartSheriff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Amen. Im pretty disappointed with this 20 (or a whopping 60 with the PS3) GB HD's coming with consoles and no upgrade HD's crap.
- Sabin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Considering that the 360 HDD is a 2.5" drive i would say you'll have that in about 3-4 more years.
- McGrude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Dude, just rip your legitimately purchased DVDs to WMV, store them on a USB hard disk drive, and then plug that into your 360. There's your 300 GB drive.
Sure WMV sucks, but it works on the 360 and I've already got 60+ DVDs that I own. I've been ripping a DVD tonight to see how well it works. If is looks good enough, and preserves the 5.1 audio track, I'll be going out get get an external 350 to 500 GB USB hard drive.
This will either work well, or it'll be a complete waste of my evening. It's worth a few hours to try. - McGrude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just an update in case anyone actually cares...
The Matrix took 9+ hours to rip to WMW. It was 1.3 GB in size and appears to have preserved the 5.1 audio track. Time to go buy a larger hard disk drive.
The tools I used are :
DVD-WVM ( www.dvd-wmv.com )
Which requires Windows Media Encoder (search at google for the download at Microsoft.com).
I'm watching it now and its good. I love it. The only drawback is that I can't select chapters.
Also I can't seem to extract arbitrary tracks with DVD-WMV. I'd appreciate being able to extract extra features, etc, in addition to the main title track.
- SimonX314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Great start to a service that has the potential to usurp all blockbuster-type rental stores and netflix-like services, provided you have the bandwidth.
- isewise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is definitely is very cool thing, but there are some thing to consider, I am going to play devil's advocate just a little (I own a Xbox 360, so don't label me as a Sony Fanboy, I do plan on buy a PS3 as well though):
"Movies will be "rental" only, TV for "purchase" only."
-Are there going to be special features for the movies?
"You can only download content to your Xbox 360 drive -- not to an external drive."
-DRM
"Movies can be watched an unlimited number of times the first 24 hours. Plays after that period will cost the same as the initial download, although the movie data isn't necessarily deleted. You can keep the movie data on your drive up to 14 days without re-downloading it."
-DRM. Re-paying for watching it later outside the initial 24 hour period? That sounds pretty restrictive, when the data is already on the HDD.
And lets not forget that Sony could do this probably just as easily, Sony Pictures, so you can count on the Spiderman movies not being on Xbox Live Video or these movies:
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Pictures-Titles-VHS/b?ie=UTF8&node=573626
Although I am still excited about this, I have my doubts. I think it will be interesting to see how this pans out. Remember when we first heard about Micro transactions? I think it might be better to stick with optical media for a little while longer. - isewise, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1DVD and VHS listings of Sony Picture titles:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_d/102-1392846-6262540?url=search-alias%3Dvideo-aps&field-keywords=sony+pictures&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go
- isewise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is definitely is very cool thing, but there are some thing to consider, I am going to play devil's advocate just a little (I own a Xbox 360, so don't label me as a Sony Fanboy, I do plan on buy a PS3 as well though):
- angelp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From the video on the xbox page, it looks like TV shows may be around 240 points.
As for the hard drive space, it looks like they expect you to delete the content when you've viewed it and re-download it if you want to view it again in order to save on space. Luckily, they allow you to start playing while it's still downloading. - wyldtek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/marketplace/moviestv.htm
- Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Somewhere, someone will try this with dialup.
- Surreptitious, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3You need broadband for Xbox Live.
- fugazi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Its called an "adapter"... Now someone try and download an hd movie :D
- ErinIsADrunk, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2unless they release a bigger HD this will be worthless. With 20 GB storage of which only 13 GB is actually allowed for use to store content. If these are in high def, shows are going to be close to 1 GB. I refuse to pay for something that I'm going to have to delete shortly after watching due to lack of space. It might work for the movie rentals but not for television shows which is something you'll want to keep after downloading.
- Surreptitious, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Yea... spending money on somthing your going to have to delete would be a waste. Unless they price things at 2 or 3 dollars like a rental maybe.
- jumpertk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder if they will let you bump some of these movies and TV shows off of your xbox hard drive and place them on your PC. Since they all will be DRM'd anyway and people have found ways to hook a 360 drive up to a PC and load content on and off the drive this would really make sense and you wouldn't need that larger drive... even tho it would be nice to have more space
- shad0w, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Once you pay for a TV show, you can download it as many times as you want. So if you run out of room, you can always delete some TV shows and then download them again if you want to watch them.
- NYC10004, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You don't need a bigger drive when you have infinite download ability.
- NidStyles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0TV for "purchase" only."
I guess you can add not being able to read to your list of faults.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1external HD fror the 360? Or just HD replacements I wonder.
- CornFlake, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7Apple going to be pissed about this. Might even take a chunk out of apples market share.
- chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3Apple offers the TV shows cheaper.
- shad0w, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Apple offers them cheaper, but you can't actually watch them on a television. To the average consumer, watching your downloaded movies and tv shows on a television is a huge advantage.
- Zero2aHero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You say that Apple's prices are cheaper... have the prices for this been announced? I have yet to find that info.
- contradictator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We don't know the pricing of the 360's download service yet, someone will have to see how it compares after converting the cost of points.
Also, Apple's new iTV should alleviate the problem of not being able to watch your iTunes content on your home theater set-up. Granted, I believe there are other options as well, but Apple's device should be quite a machine anyway.
I just hope this service won't be as "region locked" as iTunes. I live in Canada, even we don't get movie downloads or anything yet. It makes little sense to me... - Zero2aHero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I saw in the video from someone elses post that they rented a movie for 320 MS points... or $4.00 and bought an episode of CSI Miami for 240 MS points... or $3.00 (yuck)
- Quix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"Apple offers them cheaper, but you can't actually watch them on a television." = shad0w
Um, wrong. I watch shows bought via iTunes on my big screen television all the time. Buy show, sync iPod, drop iPod in dock connected to TV via S-video, control iPod with iMac remote control.
iTV (or whatever it will be called) will be better, but my 80G iPod does the trick just fine. Shows look good too - though I'm anxiously awaiting HD. - angelp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@Quix - not everyone has an iPod and quite frankly, I'd rather pay an extra dollar for HD quality and the ease of just having it download to my 360. The quality of the shows in iTunes isn't all that great and I can't even imagine how it would look on my 60 inch screen.
I'm wondering how this will tie in into the Zune. If we can transfer content back and forth, I could easily be persuaded to give up my iPod, especially after seeing video of the UI on the Zune.
- chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Ok, you rent the movie and then have 14 days to watch it (no problem there). But once you start it, you only have 24 hours to view it. Huh? If I goto Blockbuster, i can watch a movie 10 times if I want during the rental period. So this is basically a "one view" rental unless you watch it more than once in that 24 hour period.
Not to mention that at those d/l sizes, you can probably fit 2 movies at most on your HDD depending on what else you have stored.- TheG2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Do you know how much it would cost you to keep a movie for 14 days at Blockbuster?
You pay a one time fee, watch the movie at a time of your choosing and bam, rental is automatically returned to you the next day...that kind of rental sounds fine to me... - chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It would cost $3.99.
You get 1 week, then a week grace period, then you have to return it before 30 days is up or you get a $2 restocking fee. - TheG2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Still...
Blockbuster sucks.
- TheG2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Do you know how much it would cost you to keep a movie for 14 days at Blockbuster?
- DucksofAnaheim, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4The Xbox 360, along with Akimbo, will be among the first mass-market devices able to download high def television programs -- and the first we know of in the states able to download HD movies. The service is called Xbox Live Video This is Fing HUGE !!!
- chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Yeah, huge, except that it will take you HOURS to d/l that 5 gigs.
- SimonX314, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Upgrade to fiber. Either way still faster than netflix.
- WhereAmI, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1so wait they are gonna make you pay for CBS?
- indirect, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They are not making you pay for anything. They are however allowing you to pay for commercial free 720p programming that you can download on your own schedule.
- greekgoat91, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Wouldn't it be great if you could transfer an SD show to your Zune? It would probably need to be converted but that would be a good idea.
- adamnikyo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm hoping this is how it's going to work. You'll have your "Live Anywhere" account, and any TV, Movies or Music you pay for should be available "Anywhere". Buy a TV show on your 360? You should be able to dl the same show via Urge, for free, to throw onto your Zune.
That's how the games are supposed to work, right? Buy Zuma on your 360, get it on your cell phone or Zune as well.
If this is the case, Microsoft may actually have something here.
- adamnikyo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm hoping this is how it's going to work. You'll have your "Live Anywhere" account, and any TV, Movies or Music you pay for should be available "Anywhere". Buy a TV show on your 360? You should be able to dl the same show via Urge, for free, to throw onto your Zune.
- LowFuel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I hope they fix their download services then. Anyone else have any game download get stuck at around 6%?
- phronko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No.
- gwolf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If the HD downloads look anything like the video that's on live now, 720P should look pretty good. I wonder about people with slow broadband though.
- TomKan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Blast it, George Lucas was right about this on demand thing......
- edisin, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1welcome to 6 YEARS AGO with a regular Xbox moded out and linked to xlink =P
- Phlag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The original Xbox sure as ***** can't play HD video, nevermind the fact that downloading the videos was generally considered illegal "6 YEARS AGO," nor can you download said videos straight from Microsoft's servers.
So this is quite a development, regardless of how much of a PROFESSIONAL PIRATE I'm sure you think you are.
- Phlag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The original Xbox sure as ***** can't play HD video, nevermind the fact that downloading the videos was generally considered illegal "6 YEARS AGO," nor can you download said videos straight from Microsoft's servers.
- ezadam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This and Gears of War have persuaded me to take the plunge. I hope they announce a default 100GB hard drive in the next week or so.
I'd imagine the Sony has a similar trick up it's sleeve for PS3, h.264.- K111, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This kind of service is not easy to set up, it sounds like they've created a new network separate from Xbox Live and it's Marketplace just to serve up this content. That's hugely expensive, as is maintaining it, so I wouldn't expect Sony to be able to just jump into delivering this same kind of content, there isn't yet any information on whether their free multiplayer is working well.
- slickrate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Couple this service with WM11 and MS is set up to really compete with iTunes. The ability to stream music and video with Airport on a mac is something that we all know is comming but MS is doing it first, with hardware a lot of us already have. Couple this with 3 hot titles debuting on Wednesday (Gears of War, Tony Hawk 8, and Call of Duty) it gives those of us who already have the system really happy owners.
- leonwestbrook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Please let me download some Colbert.
- MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I saw this coming the whole time. There was no way Microsoft would pass this up. And besides, Bill Gates said in a keynote some time ago that media will soon be online and physical media will become obsolete. I guess it's happening faster than we all realize.
Shame that most internet sucks though. - REpler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I have a 360.
I hope they don't ***** this up.
*crosses fingers* - Brookrtm07, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I think it's a great time to be a 360 owner. M$ is coming through on some promises. I only have a 512k connection, so I don't think I'll be downloading (or paying for) any TV shows, nor movies that would take me 3 to 4 days to download (I get kicked off while I'm downloading trailers and demos that are only 400mb or so)....but I'm all for choice.
I just hope Microsoft adds the ability to have external hard drives, divx/xvid support...but I'll not hold my breath. LOL - google_bot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Xbox Live is just so awesome.
- Kinsbane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4At first, I thought it was kind of a terrible idea. But that was just my initial impression.
Once I read all the comments, and saw the approximate price points, I realized it made a lot of sense.
I have a card with Blockbuster, and when new releases come out they're a 2-day rental. My 'home' Blockbuster is far away from both my house and my office, so getting there to drop off a rental is tough. More often than not, it's about 5 days total renting time (the weekend) before I can get over to Blockbuster to return it, incurring late fees and whatnot.
Most of the time, when I'm renting a movie, it's because it piqued my interest, but not enough to spend money on it in the theater. It'll be a time-waster with the girlfriend. So, we watch it once, form an opinion (good or bad) and then go on our merry way. Before you talk about 5-day rentals at Blockbuster: Generally if a movie there has passed on to their 5-day rental plan, I never had interest in the movie in the first place. I can always buy a fairly old movie later on in physical format for like 10 bucks and watch it whenever I want. It's pretty much pay-per-view, which I'm fine with, and have used quite a bit in the past.
Verdict on HD Movies: Can't ***** wait to rent movies digitally.
TV shows, though, are a different story. They always involve a continuous story, so having the ability to pay once and re-download TV shows so I can watch them again before the new season is a plus. TV shows like 24, however, I buy so I can get the extras and a nice case to put them on display. But the re-downloading for TV shows is ***** *****.
Verdict on TV shows: Like buying TV season box sets? Hell yes.
Overall verdict: I'm ***** sold. - iamcool, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0One HD movie should about fill my 360 hard drive. I'm not exactly getting the point of it. Yeah, it's good in theory, but more of a, were competing with iTunes.
- Beat_Randall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm not gonna complain about more features on Xbox Live, but I'm not sure what they are going to be able to offer that we can't get somewhere else, easier and cheaper. No one wants to compromise their disk space on the HDD for a movie they can only watch for a day. Personally I have video on demand and it will probably be the same price as a market place DL without the "DL". We can get T.V. shows from ITunes and they have a better selection than just Adult Swim, CBS, and MTV. With all that aside, there's still the issue of providing a larger size HDD. The original was $100. How much do they intend to sell a new hard drive for? he only fair option I can see is that they finally allow support for external hard drives. $100 for an 80 gig Xbox hard drive is still steep. I'd rather have a choice of drives if I'm gonna be expected to DL dozens of gigs of media.
- seansshack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1360 really needs a bigger HD now....
- seansshack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But this is badly needed. There is a real lack of content apart from live games and demos. Movie videos are old and there was a promise of short films (which would be interesting)
- evansls, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've been anticipating Apple's move to finally offer subscription or an all you can download for a set price, so hopefully this well deserved competition from microsoft will push apple towards this direction.
As much as I'm of Apple fan, I think this is a great move from Microsoft. You can bet Apple is standing by, becuse although iTV will be a great product it still won't get me to spend $15 a new movies. - neomits, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For those of your wondering what the quality will be like on a highly compressed HD file, MS has already shown great strides in compressing HD content in their wmv format. They have plenty of full length movies in HD rez that fit onto one DVD. Heck, there was even a small push to keep DVD media and just use HD-WMV as the codec instead of all this blu-ray, HDDVD nonsense.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx
still, thats not to say that a larger HardDrive would be gladly welcomed. - jmdajr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cool options!
- ErinIsADrunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think this could be a major stab at Apple's iTunes Movie Store. The ability to download or rent movies that will play on your big screen TV is going to be much more appealing then downloading a move from iTunes and watching it on a computer monitor in less then DVD quality. If the Sony decides to role out their own movie rental/download service I think this could mean trouble for some of the current online movie stores like iTunes.
- skyman375, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So what about the bandwidth costs to MS? Is there a bittorrent client installed with some form of DRM to make the bandwith needs for downloading HD content feasible?
- mobilehavoc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Just upgraded my Comcast cable connection from 6Mbps to 8Mbps...
- knodi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Xbox LIVE just keeps getting better and better.
- Nintendo5, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1One more blow to that slowly produced $200 blue diode.
- Nintendo5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0But then Sony is more focussed on selling hardware than networking.
- Nintendo5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0oops
- merdiesel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pay for TV again?... no thanks.
It is nice to have the option though... I really love what MS is doing with Live, Keep it up. - ka0tic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Speaking from the prespective of a guy that owns an Xbox 360, let me be the first to beg Microsoft not to make these video downloads like 10,000 Xbox live points.
- ubadojw1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Looks like the people who got a core system will actually WIN. If they now want to purchase the "rumored" larger HD they will be ahead of those of us who have the wimpy 20GB drive. Plus most likely they'll already have a memory card so transferring save files will be easily done.
- depodollar, on 03/01/2008, -0/+0Well, you can download XBOX 360 Complete games and other media online now.
Like LOR, GH3 etc. Get some sites for those download services.
Plus, there are those high-resolution HDTV and HD Movies you can download too!!!
That would be amazing!
See: http://www.great-monitor.com/reviews/xbox360.htm
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