NBC fall TV promos in HD on Xbox Live Marketplace
By Richard Lawler 
posted Sep 6th 2006 11:59AM
posted Sep 6th 2006 11:59AM
NBC has posted high definition trailers for some of their fall programming on Xbox Live. You can get an early look at 30 Rock and Kidnapped, or existing shows Conan O'Brien and The Office. They've even got a behind the scenes look at NBC Sunday Night Football up for download. All are listed at 720p but the quality varies. While the Kidnapped, 30 Rock, Conan O'Brien and Sunday Night Football promos feature the kind of quality we expect from our HDTVs and Xbox 360s, The Office is strangely blurred. It's hard to say if it is just a problem with how it was encoded or if it is an upconvert of a lower-res source, but while not as bad as the Battlestar Galactica episode last week, since The Office is filmed entirely in HD we wouldn't have expected this problem.
The 360 just keeps getting better and better with more and bigger features all the time. I wonder how long it will be till M$ offers bigger hard drives to store full HD tv episodes, or even movies. Xbox Live is in a great position to really change console gaming and with news coming from Sony on the PS3 delay yet again it only makes the Xbox 360 that much better!
Great idea, but NBC is dopey. They have a Lost-style superhero show in 'Heroes' and they run a promo for 30 Rock? Dumb. Marketing genius. Someone should tell them there might be crossover between a superhero fans and gamers. Maybe not a 1-to-1 correllation, but strong enough.
NBC did put Heroes on Xbox Live. The write up just didn't mention it.
Did anyone look at The Office footage. For the entire show to be shot in HD the footage on Xbox live looked really bad : ( Thats my favorite show too!