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Hi, John. Which country that the service will be available? I`m quite that it will not available in all region. :)

Wow - what a difference a year makes!

Congrats to Peter and the rest of the XBL gang!  You guys delivered on the promise of XBL in a big way.

wow, great job MS on this one

Awesome! But uhh, how am I going to fit all this stuff?  I watched the how-to video on xbox.com, and an episode of CSI for example weighed in at over 2gigs.  MS-branded external HDDs are the way to go b/c I don't see how I would transfer my HDD info to a new one (being that the HDDs are linked to the console).

Way cool!  When Battlestar Galatica appeared not long ago, I wondered if we see more content.  I had no idea how much content.  Can't wait to see this.

Will this these videos be availble for play on the Zune?  Or, if I purchase these on the Xbox, since the gamertag is paired with the zunetag, will I be able to redownload them from the Zune store?

Tell me this is true, and I might just have my reason to switch from an iPod to a Zune...

I'm supposed to fit downloaded movies, tv shows, XBLA titles, demos, game saves on a 20GB drive?  You have got to be kidding me? Great stuff though .... just increase the hard drive size!!!  Gigabytes aren't expensive anymore!

I wonder how many people realize how HUGE this really is?

Arnie [MGS/Xbox Community Team]: I believe anything bought "to own" like the TV shows, work just like XBLA -- you can download it again later for no extra charge, you just pay for it once.

What about Video Podcasts? I-tunes is successfully able to sell TV Shows and Movies becuase they bundle it next to Free Video Podcasts. It seems like Microsoft goes at things way too copy and paste you guys need to see the big picture which is PEOPLE WANT FREE STUFF that lures them to look at the pay stuff.

And not for us in Europe (I live in Sweden) of course. As usual! :-(

As others have said, no WAY is that going to fit on a 20GB HD.
Mine already is permanently full of demos as I have a limited budget so like to have as many demos available as possible so I can decide what game to get next over a matter of months.  I only delete demos as I decide I definately do not want the game or have bought it.

So, I have NO space for all this stuff, not that I expect it will be available in the UK anyway.

Why the long wait for a 100GB drive anyway?  Ever since the 360 first came out in the UK a 100GB 2.5" SATA cost the same as MS were charging for the official 360 20GB one.  So theres NO excuse, the custom case doesnt cost THAT much to manufacture.  If you guys hadnt put special codes on the drive a lot of us would have already added 100GB drives to our consoles.  Whats the excuse for that?  Its not like it stops us getting at the content on the drive it only stops us swapping for a larger drive yet you claim you arent trying to nickel and dime us?  No im not referring to Lumines, I bought it and think its good value for money.  But the peripherals are a bit pricey when its well known joypads cost very little to manufacture.

This is cool news! IF you're in the US that is... As usual the rest of us have to wait... Why, oh why can't you ever bring us something cool at the same time? It pisses me off..

HD space isn't an issue. You're collecting demos? Well, a larger drive wouldn't solve it. If MS releases a bigger drive, it wouldn't take long before people started whining about that drive as well. "Only 100gb? That doesn't cut it!"

Now the real Blu Ray / HD DVD killer steps up :) Nice one. I had to laugh at Major Nelson's blog - almost every comment asking for a bigger HD - I think MS have the message now guys ;)

One quick question for MS - could we have an announcement as to when this service might reach the UK? Thanks.

Oh and you do know that a lot of people in the UK have silver US Live accounts - what's to stop me getting my in-laws in Nashville to go and buy me a bunch of US MS points cards, redeeming them against my US Silver account and then renting movies befire they are supposed to be out in the UK? Not that I would ever do that of course...... much.

I think a bigger HDD wouldn't be totally necessary if people did a little house cleaning once in a while.  If you think about it, TV Shows are the only thing that you could watch over and over again..  I have a load of TV Shows on DVD and i think I've watched some of them like once, maybe twice..  MS needs to flaunt the limitless downloads on those a lot more to make up for the small drive..  Let people know that it's okay to delete this content because you can re download at any time.  

As far as movies, you won't be keeping those, so that will just be temporary storage...

Now, if MS were to add a bigger HDD, I think they need to not make just a bigger drive, but make a drive to go inbetween the existing drive and the 360.  Sort of the same way that XSATA sandwiches itself between the two, a new HDD should do the same.  That way, I don't have to worry about not having my content from my old HDD..  Basically just the ability to do an array of HDD's would be KILLER!!  Think about inviting friends over to do local multiplayer on the same 360.  They could just put their HDD's on top of yours and be able to access their content without you losing the ability to do yours at the same time..

Anyway, I think this is an awesome move by MS, but I doubt one that should catch anyone by surprise.  As has been said previously, the winner of the next HD Movie format will not be a physical media...

Also, there were some prices on the video that Major Nelson linked.  It looks like 240MS Points for a TV Show and 320MS Points for a Movie Rental.  That's not bad at all, especially for HD Movies and TV Shows on Demand without the need to buy an HDDVD Player or BluRay Player/PS3.

I think if this gets used a lot, we'll start to hopefully see free downloads with commercials.  Sort of like they do for ABC shows.  3 Commercials throughout the whole show, and that's it.  All of their popular shows are free to watch online in decent quality (looks a bit better than SD, definitely not HD).

For those of you over the pond (ie UK), create a Hotmail account based in the US (put in any address), then create a new Silver account and link the two together. You now have access to US content (minus the Gold only stuff, unless you pony up for another one of those).

:D

//M

The 14gig HDD wont be enough for this

Hardly think 100gig would be sufficient either

When will MS address the HDD issue?

In the immortal words of Roy Shatner's character in Jaws, "You're gonna need a bigger boat."

Will we be able to offload these movies/TV shows onto an external HDD?  

I really think Microsoft has already thought about the HDD issue... they are a billion dollar company after all.  My predictions?

1) They're coming out with a 60GB HDD add-on
2) You'll be able to store Xbox Live Videos on the Zune

Microsoft continually says they are about "choice" and I fully expect them to follow through with that idea here.

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It's a great thing but now there needs to be a bigger hard drive please.  I need one really bad but don't mess on the people who already have one.  If it could stack on or add on to the old one that would be awesome.

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