digital music/video
12/22/2006, 5:10pm, EST
Friday, December 22nd
Xbox Live leading video downloads?
Microsoft's Xbox Live movie service may well be at the forefront of paid movie downloads, according to a new report. Variety reports that the recently launched Microsoft service is drastically outperforming Amazon's Unbox store, which in some cases sells as little as 100 titles as downloads per day. Although no figures are available to directly compare Xbox Live's success with that of Apple's iTunes, Variety's Ben Fritz notes that Microsoft's service is much better suited to TV use, as the console is already connected to a TV and has the ability to purchase as well as rent HD-quality content, while Amazon's service is limited to computers and at best matches the quality of DVDs. Apple also faces these restrictions and may depend heavily on its anticipated iTV media hub to match Microsoft's technology, according to Electronista.
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Unfortunately, as far as I can see, it's either rentals (which don't tell you how long they last until you rent them, assuming 24h) that are overpriced or trailers/promos/clips.
iTV! WHERE ARE YOU?!?
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/personality/elle/20061120-lightscameraaction.htm
And what's with MS's stupid-ass points system? Are they hoping their customers can't do the math and think spending 400 points is like spending 4 dollars (its more like $5).
Probably the easiest way to deal with all the currency differences.