Battlestar Galactica recap episode coming to UHD, Xbox Live Marketplace
by Richard Lawler 
posted Aug 11th 2006 at 3:14PM
BSG fans get ready, before the third season of Sci-Fi's series kicks off this fall, they will be following the trend of cable shows airing on network television as a recap episode The Story So Far will air on NBC's West Coast affiliates and Universal HD later this month and throughout September. The episode, covering the key events of the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica, will also be distributed on a bonus DVD at Best Buy, and via iTunes and Xbox Live. It has been confirmed that the Xbox Live download will come in mid-september, free of charge, however they haven't commented on the size or whether it will be available in HD resolution. Either way, it looks like we'll be clearing some space off the 20GB hard drive and getting on the digital distribution bandwagon shortly.[via Joystiq]
Filed under: Programming, NBC
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Brian Hoyt @ Aug 11th 2006 4:06PM
XBL only goes up to 720P and is also encoded with VC-1 so it should be much smaller than the standard 10 GB per hour of HDTV. However still depending on length it could easily be 5 GB which would be huge for a download. The largest on XBL so far has been some demos in the 1.1 GB range.
WASD John @ Aug 11th 2006 4:19PM
That would truly be just short of incredible to offer even just an hour long show for download on XBL in HD. I hope they can pull it off but even with my 9 Mbps download I wouldn't be expecting to get that episode very quick at all.
Parris @ Aug 11th 2006 5:19PM
MS needs to hurry up and start offering a larger hard drive. If they could start offering episodic tv shows via marketplace I dont think anyne would have a problem waiting a few hours while they download.
Justin @ Aug 11th 2006 6:14PM
If it's distributed on Xbox Live it means it will be available for Xbox 360 users?
Big Sam @ Aug 12th 2006 4:15AM
Justin,
YES