E308: NBC Universal added to XBVM

by Dustin Burg { Jul 16th 2008 at 4:30PM }

Somehow slipping through our extensive E3 2008 coverage (bad X3F, bad!) was an announcement that came during Microsoft's conference informing us that NBC/Universal were just added to the U.S. Xbox Live Video Marketplace. This new partnership brings hit NBC, Sci-Fi Channel and USA Network shows to the XBVM including various SD/HD episodes from TV shows like The Office, Heroes, 30 Rock, Scrubs, SNL and more. This news may not be as exciting as the Netflix announcement, but we're sure those diehard Heroes fans would probably beg to differ on that point.

Tags: e3-08, e3-2008, e308, nbc, universal, video-marketplace, xblm, xbvm

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

FordGTGuy @ Jul 16th 2008 4:42PM

I hope Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis end up on the marketplace in HD.

lmalave2 @ Jul 16th 2008 5:15PM

I think MS is about to vastly increase the number of movies offered.

Think about it - that's why they announced the ability to buy XBL content on the XBL website and have automatically synched up to the XBox. On the XBox you're always going to be limited by not having a keyboard and mouse to quickly navigate through a huge movie catalog. Letting you buy movies on your computer solves this problem.