360 Tv

[Glockstar]

On the 1-year anniversary of the 360, MS will open the new Video Marketplace, where you can download tv shows and movies (at a cost, of course).

The list of programming that MS expects to be available on the Marketplace before the end of the year.

Adult Swim: Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force
CBS: CSI, Survivor, Star Trek
Comedy Central: South Park, Chappelle's Show
MTV: The Real World, Pimp My Ride
Nickelodeon: Avatar: The Last Airbender, SpongeBob SquarePants
Nicktoons Network: Skyland, The Nicktoons Network Animation Festival
Paramount Pictures: Nacho Libre, Jackass: The Movie
Spike TV: Carpocalypse, Raising the Roofs
Nascar.com: Race Rewind
UFC: The Ultimate Fighter, UFC: All Access
VH1: Breaking Bonaduce, Hogan Knows Best
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment: The Matrix, Superman Returns, Batman Forever

Very interesting, indeed.

Read the GameSpot (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6161165.html) and IGN (http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/744/744355p1.html) news articles. (I fully reccommend both. :wink5: )

[Oobgarm]

I wonder how hard drive space will be utilized. The drive is pretty small as is; I've got mine over half full with demos.

For the amount spent on downloads, you could most likely get a decent DVR setup from your existing cable provider.

[Rogue Bounty Hunter]

Great, more things that will take up HDD space. Sounds like this could have gamers buying an extra HDD.

Like game demos, I would rather have these movies and shows (the ones that I'm interested in) on a disc than stored on my 360.

I'm not trying to down this idea overall, I just consider my 360 a game system and not a multimedia machine that MS is trying to make it.

[Cuddly Knife]

A note to 360 owners: Any download that you buy, you can delete if you don't want it cluttering up space on your HDD and download again at any time after for no charge. You do have to have the same account though. It's like that for the games, too.

[Glockstar]

Great, more things that will take up HDD space. Sounds like this could have gamers buying an extra HDD.

That's what I was thinking. I tried to dismiss that thought, but everytime I do it comes back dirtier and smelling more and more like fish.

The thing here is that MS has, once again (http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=25119298&sid=6161234), said they are not releasing a bigger HardDrive anytime soon. This bothers me. For one thing, it's greatly needed. And it was even before this! I'm flabbergasted that MS is so adamant about not putting it out. Especially considering how well they have responded to consumer's wants and needs in the past. :(

Then the other thing that bugs me is that nagging feeling that there's a conspiracy afoot. And I'm thinking that they're filibustering this because they've got an overstock of 20HDD's; they made too many. And if they were to come out with a 100GB drive now, they know that 20GB drive sales would totally dry up. Unless they knocked the price way, way down. But then if they did that they'd lose money on them. So...

Regardless of their reasons, their whole handling of this HDD $#!% is reminiscent of Nintendo, and it's strike-one against MS in my book. :mad:

Anyways, back to the Video Marketplace...

I'm not saying that I'm going to be downloading anything either - there are too many unkowns about the service (like price, size, and download time) - but it sure is interesting. I have a mild interst in a few of those shows; a little bit more interst in the HD movie-rental thing; but if they were to continually get the most recent episodes of Lost and Battlestar Galactica on there then I would become very interested. ABC.com makes the most recent episodes of Lost available for stream-viewing the next day - which I've had to go to numerous times already this year - but the download gets frequently interrupted and what should be a simple 45-minute ordeal has often become a 2-hour exercise in frustration.

There's a lot of potential for this 360 offering.

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I tell you another interesting thing here tho' - unrelated, but very curious... Did you guys read the IGN article (http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/744/744355p1.html)? Did you catch that bit at the end?

Another downside: The plans for adult content will likely fall in line with Microsoft's policy for games which is to not allow adult only games on to the system. It looks like downloading HD porn to your Xbox 360 isn't going to happen. Sad, we know.

[Glockstar]

A note to 360 owners: Any download that you buy, you can delete if you don't want it cluttering up space on your HDD and download again at any time after for no charge. You do have to have the same account though. It's like that for the games, too.

I did not know that. Cool. Thanks, CK. You da man.

[Rogue Bounty Hunter]

A note to 360 owners: Any download that you buy, you can delete if you don't want it cluttering up space on your HDD and download again at any time after for no charge. You do have to have the same account though. It's like that for the games, too.

Personally, I wouldn't want to keep downloading the same stuff again and again just to save some space on the HDD.

That's what I was thinking. I tried to dismiss that thought, but everytime I do it comes back dirtier and smelling more and more like fish.

I know what you mean. I guess if I throw the other stuff to the side and consider what game I want to play/get next for the 360, then it doesn't really bother me.

Speaking of what to play next, I know it's early, but anyone have an idea of what games they want to get for the first half of 2007? I'm itching to do yet another list, and just like the other years, the few months after Holiday season always seem to be better than the actual Holiday season.

Another downside: The plans for adult content will likely fall in line with Microsoft's policy for games which is to not allow adult only games on to the system. It looks like downloading HD porn to your Xbox 360 isn't going to happen. Sad, we know

HD porn? Ha. I got a good laugh when I saw that. I never though of it being in HD.

[Glockstar]

Microsoft Adds Live TV Partners
Live Video gets new TV content and six new partners join Microsoft's campaign.
by Douglass C. Perry

March 27, 2007 - While the new $479 Elite Xbox 360 is making all the big news, Microsoft today also revealed six new Xbox Live Partners as well as special content coming to Xbox 360 soon.

Microsoft confirmed six new partners who plan to bring new TV and movie content to Xbox Live this spring. The list includes:

* A&E Netwrk ("Dog the Bounty Hunter," "King of Cars," "Gene Simmons Family Jewels," "Driving Force" and "Criss Angel Mindfreak"
* ADV Films (considered by many as the number one producer-distributor of ("anime") outside of Japan;
* National Geographic ("Is It Real?", "Taboo", "21 Days to Baghdad" and "Air Force One")
* New Line Cinema ("Snakes on a Plane," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning" and "Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny," "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" and "Magnolia")
* TotalVid (a broad action-sports offering including extreme skiing and snowboarding, skateboarding, motocross, surfing and mountain biking)
* Paramount Pictures (Paramount will offer high definition feature films including "Braveheart," "Team America: World Police," "World Trade Center" and "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.")

In addition, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release direct-to-video movies exclusively in HD on Xbox LIVE simultaneous with their availability on DVD, starting with "Sublime" and later offering "Babylon 5: The Lost Tales."

Microsoft's current partners, which include CBS Broadcasting Inc., Lionsgate Entertainment, MTV Networks Co., New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures Corp., Turner Broadcasting System Inc., Ultimate Fighting Championship and Warner Bros, have contributed to more than 1,500 hours of available content for download. From these companies Xbox 360 owners can watch shows from [adult swim], CBS, Comedy Central, CW, Lionsgate, MTV, MTV 2, NASCAR.com, New Line Cinema, Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, Paramount TV and Film, SPIKE, TBS, UFC, VH1 and Warner Bros TV and Movies.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/776/776450p1.html

The addition of ADV Films is cool, but dang, still no Sci-Fi Channel. :(

[Cuddly Knife]

I'd love to see some Discovery Channel, so i can watch Planet Earth.

And ESPN Classic.