The team at Xbox Video Marketplace are making more great movie content available for download in the coming weeks - news surfaced this morning that the following movies from Paramount will be available for download from Feb 19th onwards into spring:

Transformers (available in SD and HD)
Goodbye Bafana (available in SD and HD)
Intersection (available in SD)
Primal […]

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The service availability problems that afflicted Xbox Live at the end of last year have been well documented, and although Major Nelson did a sterling job with a constant flow of Twitter updates and blog posts, nothing has been said about the cause…
I figured it was a bandwidth/performance scaling problem caused by an exceptionally high […]

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In case you didn’t know, this year’s CES will be Bill Gate’s last and the rumor is that one of his announcements  - alongside stuff about Surface and Sideshow  - will be a new Xbox with an internal HD-DVD drive.
If this is true, I’m afraid that new “feature” on its own isn’t going to cause […]

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One of the things I was most looking forward to from the Xbox Fall Dashboard update was the opening up of movie downloads from Video Marketplace to the UK market (among others).
Here’s how it works; you download a movie of your choice for cost somewhere between £2 (for a standard def movie) and £3.20 (for […]

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In response to a wall of silence from Microsoft, an unhappy Xbox customer has set up a web site where anyone whose favorite games console has been bricked by a recent software update can add their name:
http://www.xbox360defective.com/index.php
He is one of a growing number of angry gamers frustrated at the way Microsoft are ignoring the scale […]

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After a recent dashboard update was pushed out from Xbox live and applied to my 360, I got the dreaded red flashing lights and my favorite games console is now nothing better than an expensive brick.
Reading through the forums on xbox.com, I’m not the only one who has had their console bricked by this update, either. […]

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