Xbox Live queues up more HD movies & TV for March
By Richard Lawler 
posted Feb 29th 2008 1:52PM
posted Feb 29th 2008 1:52PM
Xbox Live Marketplace has been busy adding videos all year and it looks like March will be the same way, with Afro Samurai hitting the service in HD only next month. More South Park is coming too, starting March 10, along with a free episode of Lewis Black's new show and Robot: Chicken: Star Wars. No word on if the latter two are available in HD, but check after the break for some of the movies showing up for rent next month. - Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married (Lionsgate)
- Bull Durham (MGM)
- Rain Man (MGM)
- Into the Wild (Paramount, Oscar nominated, Best Supporting Actor)
- Things We Lost in the Fire (Paramount)
- Gone Baby Gone (Walt Disney Studios, Oscar nominated, Best Supporting Actress)
- Becoming Jane (Walt Disney Studios)
- August Rush (WB)
- March of Penguins (WB)
- Training Day (WB)
- Unforgiven (WB)
has anyone else had problems with weird (japanese, or maybe chinese, idk) writing where the video store should be on their media blade??
thanks
Weird.. but nah, no issues here. And nice line up on the way.
MS downloads are a rip off-especially when most tv channels offer free hd streams on their websites. MS charges 5 bucks for a 720p movie that takes a day to download. Not for me. The sound is limited as well, and the 360 is so bloody noisy anyway. Id take comcast on demand over them anyday-better quality and cheap to free.
i download 360 HD movies all the time. I love it honestly sometimes i just dont feel like goin out and renting a movie and marketplace is a perfect for me. im not sure what you mean by lengthy downloads i have cable internet and it takes about 5 minutes so i can "play now" and another 15 - 25 tops for the entire movie to download
Noisy? Only if you're playing a game. Jeez I wish people who don't have a particular system would just stop parroting each other.
I don't know how messed up your xbox is but for the majority of us the xbox only becomes noisy when a game is spinning in the drive, and even then as long as the sound is on I can't hear it anyway. Granted I do have an elite but I don't think that it is much quieter than my brother's premium, if at all. I think people just enjoy pointing out flaws in things to make themselves feel better about criticizing entirely unrelated subjects. Besides, I find the high pitched noise every ps3, including my own, makes much more intrusive. High pitched noises are naturally louder and can be heard even over things like the game.
How about giving us Canadian's more choice Microsoft? Your TV selection is non-existent and downloading your movies is more painful and difficult than watching an Ashlee Simpson concert.
There movie downloads are ok but I have to agree, it is a ripoff when it comes to stuff from TV.
Agreed just look at lost the series is free on ABC.com ,but they still charge you on marketplace, sad to rip-off people on already free content. I used to be a huge fan of marketplace,but to tell the truth their DRM is too restrictive. I don't like paying for something that is only good on my 360 and if it's connected to live if i'm not using my original 360(which most of us arent').
Gotta say I'm somewhat disappointed in the growth of Xbox Live Video Marketplace's library. The thing has been out for over a year now, and it's still big news when they add a new content provider or new movies in HD.
By this time, there should be so much content on there that a few new movies in HD should be nothing more than a blip on the radar, and every major content provider should be churning out titles for it (except Sony, natch.)