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- 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.
- zMastaa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38This must be a true sign of a bigger HDD soon to come
- 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. - inactive, 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?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Damnit Microsoft, wheres are 500 gb hard drives at?
- inactive, 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. :(
- 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.
- 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
- Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Somewhere, someone will try this with dialup.
- 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.
- EXreaction, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14@23r17i05o42n
I would block you, but then I couldn't bury your foolish comments. - adamnikyo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9for christ's sake. watch the ***** video on the xbox site. tv and movies will work just everything else on Live. you pick and click download. then it's on your 360. now you can watch it...or play it...or whatever. stop making this so complicated.
- wyldtek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/marketplace/moviestv.htm
- 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.
- 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. - 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 - 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.
- 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... - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- TheG2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Still...
Blockbuster sucks. - jayfish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6May I recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Real-World-Reading-Comprehension-Grades/dp/B000F8QWEA/sr=8-2/qid=1162872062/ref=sr_1_2/103-3099675-7080665?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games
From your own post:"You cannot download programs through the Xbox Live *WEB* interface.
Jay - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Yea so that means you can hold 2.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. - REpler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I have a 360.
I hope they don't ***** this up.
*crosses fingers* - SimonX314, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Upgrade to fiber. Either way still faster than netflix.
- 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. - cell00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It was a photoshop, unfortunately.
- 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.
- G5Unit91, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Oh sorry, read the article and it says a movie will take up 5gb.(=
- 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. - 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. - 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.
- 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. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Xbox Live is just so awesome.
- SourWorm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"-Movies can be watched an unlimited number of times the first 24 hours.
So that's like 12 times or less."
Yeah .... thanks for figuring that one out for us. I always did wonder how many times I could watch a movie in a day. - 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.
- 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. - 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. - 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 - 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.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Please let me download some Colbert.
- 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.
- 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. - 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. -
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