Today, as part of their CES announcements, Microsoft revealed that
ABC, Disney and MGM have signed up to offer new content via Xbox Live and the Xbox Live Marketplace. The new content will rollout later this month to the US video marketplace from television channels including ABC, ABC News, ABC Family, Disney Channel and Toon Disney as well as movies from MGM's massive library. Standard and high-definition content from television shows like
Lost,
Grey's Anatomy,
Desperate Housewives,
Hannah Montana,
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and movies including
Terminator,
Silence of the Lambs,
Legally Blonde,
Barbershop and
Rain Man. New video content that'll be sure to empty your Microsoft points account.
Side note: The Microsoft CES keynote is still chugging along, but it is looking like they've announced all their Xbox 360 news already. This is it. So, no HD DVD equipped Xbox 360, but we did get more XBLM content ... that's good, right?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
john paul @ Jan 6th 2008 10:41PM
i hte this......
John @ Jan 7th 2008 8:03AM
yeh its bollocks lol
seriously Microsoft should visit their own fansite once in a while
WE ALL WANT HDDVD 360'S
boooo
D. Dub @ Jan 6th 2008 10:41PM
Boo!!! What a terrible key note... I can't believe I actually watched it all.
Rich @ Jan 6th 2008 10:53PM
this isnt e3 its ces its more about tech then gaming
carl @ Jan 6th 2008 10:42PM
lol lame surprise...I can buy all those on Blu-ray so why would I bother buying them on my XBOX 360??
Matthew @ Jan 6th 2008 10:43PM
Anyone else disappointed?
Anthony @ Jan 6th 2008 10:43PM
i wasa watching it live, and when i heard this i was like ooookkkkkk..... Did they say that there was gonna be a hd dvd xbox 360, cause i sure didnt here that
vahdyx @ Jan 6th 2008 10:43PM
I'm sorry to say, but I was a bit disappointed with the Xbox news, but some of the windows features are looking pretty cool.
Damnit I was really hoping they'll join the portable wars. Imagine what they could do... Vista, XboxLive, Zune, etc.
Oh well
Rae @ Jan 7th 2008 12:49AM
imagine what they could do??? with vista?! i would rather use windows 98
Robzy @ Jan 6th 2008 10:43PM
I can't believe I stayed up until 3:42am for this! What a heap of....!!!!!
GANNONSMASH @ Jan 6th 2008 10:43PM
Nice! I've always wanted Lost in XBLM.
Swampfox @ Jan 6th 2008 10:46PM
You can watch the show free on the internet, and its legal... so im guessing your being sarcastic.
Swampfox @ Jan 6th 2008 10:45PM
Wow, I guess Microsoft is really confident that they have won the console wars because for Mr. Gates last keynote they revealed nothing revolutionary.
Miguel @ Jan 6th 2008 10:46PM
A terrible keynote for Bill Gates to end with. =[
Jkrincon @ Jan 6th 2008 10:46PM
Im really dissapointed, it wasnt that good. I mean the news are just lame. It was nice to hear that the Xbox bussiness its actually more profitable than the Wii.
Cameron @ Jan 6th 2008 10:47PM
WHAT THE FUCK.
jango fett @ Jan 7th 2008 3:21AM
...hahaha lolz. im sure noone expected anybetter. well i sure didnt.
john paul @ Jan 6th 2008 10:47PM
surface looked mad cool
i think every xbox owner was very dissapointed
but it was a great keynote
but this was horrible for the xbox community
(turns to GDC)
Paul @ Jan 6th 2008 10:49PM
it was NOT a great keynote, the whole thing was stupid....i was expecting something so much better than that......
vahdyx @ Jan 6th 2008 10:48PM
HERE'S WHAT REALLY HAPPENED GUYS, THEY WERE GONNA SHOW OFF THE HD DVD EQUIPPED XBOX 360, BUT THEY DIDN'T WANT TO BECAUSE OF WARNERS DESICION SO THEY TRIED TO UP PLAY THE FACT WERE GETTING NEW DOWNLOADABLE MOVIES.
I KNEW IT
Cameron @ Jan 6th 2008 10:49PM
I'll repeat myself What the fucking hell.
This was the most time I've wasted EVER.
This is a fucking joke.
R0B3RT @ Jan 6th 2008 10:49PM
BOOO i am mad nothing more for the 360
R0B3RT @ Jan 6th 2008 10:52PM
ok unlike others i liked the key not the video was so funny!!!!
Charles @ Jan 6th 2008 10:50PM
I too feel ashamed and disappointed in myself for wasting that hour. Is it me, or do Microsoft presentations contain a cringe factor not present in other keynotes, namely Apple's? I mean none of Gate's predictions about where personal technology sound particularly appealing to me. Sounds like an invitation to be absorbed into the Borg or some scary weird shit.
michael @ Jan 6th 2008 10:51PM
that fucking sucked. horrible keynote. nothing really cool
surface looked aiight but not so great.
kHz Glitch @ Jan 6th 2008 10:52PM
Yeah, I thought Microsoft said that they had a big xbox announcement? personally, i don't think the Video Marketplace was very big, anybody remember Pacman CE announcement?
Cameron @ Jan 6th 2008 10:52PM
Whoops some people didn't hear me everyone is too blu.
WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED.
nick.bonanno @ Jan 6th 2008 10:58PM
i wanna buy movies not rent them...
NACHO @ Jan 6th 2008 11:06PM
well i wanna have a not completely horrible keynote. we can't always get what we want :(
Ithilis @ Jan 6th 2008 11:16PM
Did you guys expect news about games or something? Have you EVER watched a CES keynote? This was pretty standard as far as they go. As another poster put it, this isn't E3. CES is about technology, not the games we play on them. That's why topics like IPTV and digital distribution were discussed.
carl @ Jan 6th 2008 11:21PM
Thats not what the guys problem here is. People are complaining because there was suppose to be a Bill Gates Special Surprise about the XBOX 360. (XBOX 360 is technically a Video Game Console).
And since there was none, or maybe it was announced and it was extremely lame. So now people are complaining.
Ithilis @ Jan 7th 2008 10:21AM
Gotcha. I never caught wind of a 'big surprise announcement' aside from the HDDVD 360 rumour, so I didn't have high expectations..
Tony @ Jan 6th 2008 11:20PM
They never make any big announcements at it and they likely never will. Even just in terms of buzz, there's absolutely nothing ever leading up to these keynotes. Maybe some things will happen at the show itself, but there are simply bigger, better, more popular shows that would lend themselves best to real announcements fort the 360.
bugatti23007 @ Jan 7th 2008 12:01AM
What no Scarface,Godfather,Fast and Furious,Transformers,V for Vendetta,Batman Begins,Star Wars movies and no Girls Gone wild movies; not even a price cut for the annual xbox live service?damn Microsoft you suck.No Ultimate 360 but we get a load of crappy and decent shows when you could view some of those shows online for free.
Van Faulk @ Jan 7th 2008 12:18AM
It's CES geniuses. It isn't E3. Gaming was but a small part of MS business. Did you see the sony keynote? They barely said anything about gaming. Just that the psp was getting skype.
Erik J. Barzeski @ Jan 7th 2008 12:49AM
More ways for the DRM to screw you.
raulrfc87 @ Jan 7th 2008 12:53AM
WOW!!! this stink. couldn't they do anything else 4 us like ANYTHING better!!! i don't like this one bit this blows point blank.
Rae @ Jan 7th 2008 12:56AM
anyone see zune spaces (or whatever its called)?
complete rip off of last.fm
Scott @ Jan 7th 2008 1:35AM
Holy crap you people need to just calm the hell down.
Any worthwhile Xbox news will be saved for the Game Developer's Conference. They're not going to blow it all at CES and have nothing to show for the later GAME FOCUSED trade shows.
stinger503 @ Jan 7th 2008 2:32AM
Amen, really who the heck really watches this anyway. Microsoft got it's own tv special when unveilling the 360 and you people expected something big out of this? Its akin to going to a McDonalds finnacial meeting, I mean, I like eating there, but I'm not going there and expecting them to announce the re-launching of the McPizza.
David W. @ Jan 7th 2008 3:01AM
anyone else drool when he sat the cell phone on the surface and it recognized and automatically connected with it!?!? Can't wait until we get rid of all the stupid USB cable and cumbersome Bluetooth connections...
and the video was sorta kinda funny...they kinda made him come off as a loser/stalker, haha.
also...the gamer girl was kinda cute :)
Knight Marquise @ Jan 7th 2008 10:39AM
I swear...between the 12 year olds bitching because they don't understand that CES isn't E3, and the gawd damn Sony fanbot trolls...it's getting hard to read this blog.
gonzo @ Jan 7th 2008 11:02AM
It's a great move for ABC et. al. They are hedging their bets on both formats and I’m not talking about BluRay and HD-DVD since it would seem that BLuRay would have already won (IMHO) but rather I’m talking between Digital Download versus media. You see, Lost on BluRay just came out and with this announcement, it looks like Lost will also be on XBLM which means it is available in HD to both of the fanboy fences. From a demographic standpoint, it looks like they might have figured out that the typical customer who would buy media would be the older generation while the customer who would purchase downloads would be the younger generation. There are exceptions of course but I would bet my money that someone in ABC thought this through and decided that this is the best way to make the most money. Hey, I’m just thinking here. Fanboyism aside, what a great move by ABC and expect more of the same to follow…
Stu @ Jan 8th 2008 8:14PM
What about Canadian and Europeans for all the content on Video marketplace??? sure we only got it a month ago but still the US has a crap load more DL's than us...I know I want the classic looney tunes and other movies than what we have now