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Article: Microsoft partners with studios; TV shows and movies will soon be available through Xbox Live.(Business)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2006
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Byline: Associated Press
REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. has teamed up with a handful of Hollywood studios to sell TV shows and rent movies that can be downloaded through the software maker's Xbox Live online video-game service and beamed straight onto television sets.
The company said Monday that beginning Nov. 22, Xbox Live users with the latest console will be able to choose from shows including "South Park," which airs on MTV's Comedy Central, and CBS Corp.'s "CSI" and movies including Warner Bros.' "V for Vendetta" and Paramount Pictures' "Mission Impossible III."
In addition to CBS, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Viacom Inc.'s ...