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Xbox 360 Offers HD Movie and TV Downloads Starting Today

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 22 2006 8:00 AM

Submitted by SteveIsaacs. Edited By erin_broadley.

TAGS: Xbox 360, Microsoft

Today marks the one-year anniversary of Microsoft's Xbox 360, and also begins the game console's new movie and TV download service. TV shows will be available for purchase, and movies will be available for "rental," becoming "dead" within 24 hours of first viewing. The kicker is that Microsoft is offering High Definition, and will be the first direct download service to offer HD downloads. Currently, Apple's industry-leading iTunes Store only offers 640x480p resolution downloads.

The normally uber-secretive Steve Jobs, in a unusual move recently announced Apple's plan to sell a device called "iTV" that would accept purchases from the iTunes Store and stream them to the TV, available in early 2007.

Will Apple's iTV's be enough to fend off this High Definition salvo from Redmond? Or has Bill Gates actually begun the successful conquest of the home entertainment living room?

7 Comments

mydogfarted

Waldwick, NJ

June 2003

NOV 22, 2006 08:07 AM

Let me be the first to say:
*fap*
*fap*
*fap*
*fap*

As much as I've grown to loathe Windows and M$, I loved my XBox which lead me to buy my XBox 360. The biggest pain in the ass will be the 20GB hard drive. Right now it is the only size available, cost $100 each and HD content is massive.

Kestrel

Dallas, TX

July 2003

NOV 22, 2006 08:28 AM

They would.

Bev_Antain

Italy

February 2004

NOV 22, 2006 08:39 AM

I hope they start doing this for europe too

ankiel66

Seattle, WA

June 2003

NOV 22, 2006 09:01 AM

Well I imagine the iTV will eventually become more popular. Anyone can download itunes and then pay for downloads.

Not everyone owns, or would like to own, an xbox 360.

nanahara

United Kingdom

March 2006

NOV 22, 2006 09:05 AM

Mach1n3_Kain said:
I hope they start doing this for europe too

You can access the american content by creating a new live account with the location set to United States.

The bastards will take forever to get round to getting it for us too.