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Microsoft will launch a movie and TV download store for net-connected Xbox 360s on November 22, the company announced Monday. Xbox Live users will be able to rent high-definition movies from Warner Bros., and purchase high-definition TV shows from CBS. The service will also offer standard definition video content from Paramount, MTV Networks, Ultimate Fighting Championship and Turner's Cartoon Network...
...Although pricing and the full lineup have not yet been announced, Microsoft says that high-definition movies would be available as video-on-demand content. You would download it onto the Xbox 360's hard drive; once you begin watching the film, you would have 24 hours to finish. Warner Bros. titles will include V for Vendetta, The Perfect Storm and - when it is released for video-on-demand - Superman Returns. At the end of each movie viewing, users will see a promotion to buy an HD DVD disc of the movie, compatible with the Xbox...
...size, and will be encoded in the "720p" high-def spec, which means each widescreen frame will have a pixel resolution of 1,280 x 720. Where possible, the files will include a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround-sound track. The files will take 6 or 7 hours to download over a cable broadband connection, according to Microsoft. However, given the wide variety of household Internet connections, your own experience may be better or worse. By comparison, the standard-definition feature-length films currently available on Apple's iTunes Store are generally just under 1.5GB in size...
...Xbox 360's hard drive is only 20GB. For that reason, Xbox Live Marketplace will keep track of purchases in a virtual "locker." You can delete content on your own drive and still have full viewing rights to it. In fact, you can log onto any Xbox 360 and download your own content, though as soon as you log off again, the content goes off limits...
...Hoctor, Harvard made several key suggestions that were eventually implemented, such as the necessity of making DiscoveryGate compatible with Macintosh computers in order for it to be viable in academic and corporate research and integrating a searchable index into the software. Anyone with a Harvard IP address can download the DiscoveryGate software platform through https://discoverygate.com...