CES: Microsoft signs XBox Live content agreements

Tuesday 08th January 2008, 09:09:00 PM, written by Carl Bender

Microsoft has announced that it will be expanding the video offerings available through the XBox Live Marketplace to include content from newly signed partners ABC/Disney Channel and MGM studios. Enjoying broad popularity since its launch in late 2006, the Video Store has already built a broad catalog of content drawing from the vaults of existing partners including, but not limited to, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, and NBC. The addition of the ABC/Disney Channel family will further enhance Live content options by giving 360 owners access to hit shows such as Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Hannah Montana, and Ugly Betty, with MGM potentially contributing a wide range of popular films to the service spanning from Rocky to Silence of the Lambs.

Microsoft states that the first content from these new partnerships should be available for download later this month.

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Posted by PARANOiA on Tuesday, 08-Jan-08 23:12:27 UTC
Good for America, but what about the rest of the world?And by that I of course mean Australia ;)

Posted by Dave Baumann on Tuesday, 08-Jan-08 23:21:30 UTC
Curiously, it looks like UK will be getting IPTV first (at least, it sounds like a UK provider was the first to sign).

Posted by AzBat on Tuesday, 08-Jan-08 23:38:30 UTC
Quoting Dave Baumann
Curiously, it looks like UK will be getting IPTV first (at least, it sounds like a UK provider was the first to sign).
I read that AT&T will be in trials later this year in a few cities. It will be interesting to see who will be first. Seen the demo?

http://news.punchjump.com/blog/2008/01/08/ces-2008-video-xbox-360-with-mediaroom-demo/

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Posted by AntShaw on Wednesday, 09-Jan-08 02:40:43 UTC
Quoting NavNucST3
Nothing too curious, here in Chicago (or more accurately Illinois) Comcast, the cable provider, has made many attempts to stall AT&Ts roll out of IPTV. They keep trying to get them classified as a cable provider and the current method, before the courts I believe, is that AT&T has to go city by city or county by county to ask permission to upgrade or run lines and drop boxes...:roll:
It's a shame too. They have been trying to stall so they can get that new Cisco backbone in with 100mbs+ speeds. Compound that with new live content and you have a hit. When you can get full 720p/1080p(if they ever offer) movies in less then 5 minutes...

With that said, the IPTV functionality seems great!


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