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Article: Xbox Live enhances TV, movie viewing.
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- Video Business
- Article date:
- June 8, 2009
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By Susanne Ault
LOS ANGELES--Not just about games, Xbox Live is enhancing TV and film viewing with improved high-definition offerings and new social networking features.
These improvements coincide with Xbox replacing its previous store interface with the Zune Marketplace. The amount and type of content doesn't significantly change, but the download store now syncs up with Microsoft's existing Zune music/video brand. Zune features 20,000 TV episodes and films.
Starting this fall, Xbox Live subscribers will be able to instantly view select 1080p high-def content from the Zune service on their consoles. Previously, Xbox Live offered ...