Xbox 360 Movie Marketplace Hits EU
Tuesday, 11 December 2007 Posted at 05:34
Turned on my Xbox 360 this morning and hey presto! the Movie Marketplace is now Live. I have not had time to download a movie as of yet but i did check out the preview streaming feature before i had to rush out this morning. Unexpectedly it streams quite fast, in fact its almost instant and it gives you a full movie teaser. As you might expect the quality ain't all that great as its streamed, but its good enough to give you an overall of what the movies all about. Another thing i noticed is that the Marketplace blade is now theme with an advertising background for the movies (still doesn't theme to your personal background). You might not think this is all that great but over in the USA they have had some great add based themes for the new content such as movies and games. So hope this is the first of many, personally i think its great because it instantly tells me whats new and available to download, to others it might be plain annoying.
On the movies themselves we get the title, publisher, rating and running time info as well as a scrolling box displaying info about the film and who stars in it. Clicking the movie description gives you info on sound (stereo, surround ect.) the year the film was published, subtitle and language information. You have the options to download in High definition and Standard depending on the movies, some are only available in standard others only in HD or both. Then there is an option to preview which i mentioned above.Finally we get the option to see credits too, the actors names and directors an so on.
If you would like more info on pricing and terms of renting of these movies check out my post called Xbox 360 Video Marketplace In Europe.
