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DVDBack23 @ Dec 12, 2007 19:37 | 10 comments

After a year of existence in the US, the Xbox Live Video Marketplace has finally, officially, expanded to five new countries, Canada, UK, Ireland, France, and Germany.

However, users in Canada and Europe will not have the same selection that we do in the US. Currently, hundreds of TV series and movies are available in the US but the new territories will only have barely 30 movies available.

Microsoft must secure individual rights for the content available on their marketplace and so far there have language and licensing issues, meaning a smaller selection of content for the new territories.

“Any time we bring something new to Xbox Live Marketplace we want to make sure that it’s an amazing consumer experience,” said Scott Nocas, Global Marketing Manager for Xbox Live. “We make sure we have a ton of content and we make sure we have local content. We also want to bring it to multiple countries and, right now, we really wanted to focus on the movies because we felt that was really one of the better offerings that Xbox in the U.S. had.”

Speaking about the Canadian market, Nocas added, “We’ll be updating movies on a monthly basis. As new releases come in from our partners, we’ll put them up on the same day that everyone else has it, and we’ll be adding to the Library titles. At launch, the U.S. Video Store had 37 titles, but we now have over 300 movies. So, for Canada, we plan to aggressively add movies as fast as we can.”

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Comment by: vinny13 (Dec 12, 2007 22:05)

Gabbage.

Pure gabbage.

Comment by: ChromeMud (Dec 13, 2007 02:05)

Originally posted by vinny13:
Gabbage.

Pure gabbage.

Sony is doing a deal with Sky to offer movies/Tv shows through PSN so that must be garbage or gabbage in your case!

Direct downloads are fine,it's good to have alternative options.

Comment by: khmernize (Dec 13, 2007 02:31)

Couldn't you have a second account in the US and download it that way? I have a trial 2nd account for japan and I can download free items from them but I haven't bought anything from it.

Comment by: khmernize (Dec 13, 2007 02:31)

Couldn't you have a second account in the US and download it that way? I have a trial 2nd account for japan and I can download free items from them but I haven't bought anything from it.

Comment by: vinny13 (Dec 13, 2007 03:50)

Quote:
Originally posted by vinny13:
Gabbage.

Pure gabbage.
Sony is doing a deal with Sky to offer movies/Tv shows through PSN so that must be garbage or gabbage in your case!

Direct downloads are fine,it's good to have alternative options.

Ya, but at least they're fair...

And when did I bring up Sony?

Comment by: scorpNZ (Dec 13, 2007 07:08)

Ahhhh vinny your a fanboy

Gabbage

Pure Gabbage

lmao

Comment by: ZippyDSM (Dec 13, 2007 19:26)

Quote:
Quote:
Originally posted by vinny13:
Gabbage.

Pure gabbage.
Sony is doing a deal with Sky to offer movies/Tv shows through PSN so that must be garbage or gabbage in your case!

Direct downloads are fine,it's good to have alternative options.
Ya, but at least they're fair...

And when did I bring up Sony?

Because you are btching abotu MS ^^
At least admit you are a fanbot :P

Comment by: DarkRage (Dec 14, 2007 08:17)

Any word for Australia...?

Comment by: vinny13 (Dec 14, 2007 20:54)

Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Originally posted by vinny13:
Gabbage.

Pure gabbage.
Sony is doing a deal with Sky to offer movies/Tv shows through PSN so that must be garbage or gabbage in your case!

Direct downloads are fine,it's good to have alternative options.
Ya, but at least they're fair...

And when did I bring up Sony?
Because you are btching abotu MS ^^
At least admit you are a fanbot :P

Ya well maybe it's because I live in Canada and I think it's totally gay how we get less support. That's as gay as iTunes.

Comment by: borhan9 (Dec 24, 2007 02:34)

Man this should be all equal across the board what the U.S or Canada get should be the same and what Europe gets asia should also see. Equality people.