http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/ Engadget HD Comments for http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/Jan 7th 2008 4:07AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/
And, besides that, as is mentioned below, the audio quality and the bitrate is weak in comparison to the HD disc based brothers. I think it a weak effort, at best. It has to be, unless you think that you can fit a 30GB disc on a 20GB harddrive without some sort of compression.]]>Jan 7th 2008 9:00AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/
Microsoft can use as many excuses as they wish along side their re-interpretation of a network outage, but its not going to change the fact that they continue to illustrate incompetence, mismanagement, and lack of scalable architecture. Come this March i will not be renewing my account.]]>Jan 7th 2008 5:16AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/Jan 7th 2008 6:50AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/
If I want to watch high definition and pay for it after paying for shiny new 1080p HDTV, I want the 30Mbps+ bitrate that Bluray allows for...]]>Jan 7th 2008 6:13AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/
I am feeling very good about digital distribution obiviating the need for next-gen discs in the next Xbox and Wii.]]>Jan 7th 2008 6:49AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/
I paid for an hdtv and a quality sound system, i want to buy media that takes advantage of them.]]>Jan 7th 2008 7:12AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/
Paying $6 for a movie is a lot. As a Netflix user I get on average, 12-15 movies a month, most in HD DVD. For the same price as Netflix I can rent three movies over Xbox.

And having only 24 hours once you press play is rushing it. If I am going to pay $6 let me watch it a few times. Add a three day rental in the price to at least add replay value.
]]>Jan 7th 2008 8:38AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/Jan 7th 2008 8:41AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/
I'm curious because I don't think we're ready for HD movie downloads in a reasonable amount of time. I completely welcome the idea, and think that's the direction we're heading. But, I don't think the infrastructure is ready for such massive data traffic. I download content from Amazon's Unbox, and I usually leave it downloading overnight. And maybe, that's probably the route to take until our broadband speeds increase.]]>Jan 7th 2008 9:51AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/Jan 7th 2008 2:48PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/
It's actually 20 HOURS, 28 minutes and 48 seconds.

Now, if we all had FiberOptics at up to 30 Mbps and got that at a constant stream, that 18 GB movie would take us closer to 1 hour, 21 minutes, and 55 seconds.]]>Jan 7th 2008 3:13PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/A 40gig dl at 2mb/s (a very respectable speed. you're unlikely to see this outside of Urban areas) will take you more than 5hours to dl. Likely more than 3 for half this size.
Hoping for no Network congestion, Xbox malfunction or a mere power interruption, of course.
Xbox Live will be happy to have -if ever- Itunes numbers.
Between the people who won't get broadband (or can't), and the ones that prefer to have physical media anyway for max experience, download directly to TV is still only an annoying alternative (gotta wait hours before watching) to Rental, and will likely stay that way for a long time :)
The model most directly concerned is Netflix, and they're on it, that'll hardly replace physical sales.

Funny though to see MS dropping HD DVD like a hot potato (not one mention of it during Gate's Key speech).]]>Jan 7th 2008 11:02AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/
Unfortunately this would take over 45.5 hours.]]>Jan 7th 2008 3:25PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/07/xbox-live-marketplace-adds-hd-and-sd-content-from-abc-mgm/
Imagine buying one box to play your 360 games, your Xbox games, your HD DVDs and your Blu-ray Discs.]]>Jan 7th 2008 3:32PM