
Microsoft scored
another debut of animated content moving to HD for the
Xbox Live Marketplace, as it recently announced the anime classic
Akira will headline the rollout of anime from distributors FUNimation and Geneon. Despite initial growing pains with
slow downloads and that too-small hard drive that's
so expensive to upgrade, Lions Gate recently revealed that its movies have been rented 150,000 times on the service and called it a "promising sign" for their library and digital delivery. Along with the
anime, expect content from Logo and CMT to also hit the service starting Monday, although no word on what, if any, of that will be in HD.
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