Disney Makes Deal with Microsoft for Digital Distribution

[Chux]

Last night at MS Pre-E3 conference they announced their partnership with Disney to distribute Disney content on their XBOX Live Marketplace. Since I was streaming the conference on my PC I booted up my 360, went to the market place and found...

Alice In Wonderland
Armageddon
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Bad Company
Bringing Down The House
Cold Creek Manor
Coyote Ugly
Déjà Vu
Ghosts of the Abyss
Gone Fishin'
Grosse Pointe Blank
Hercules
Meet the Deedles
Metro
Mighty Joe Young
Moonlight Mile
Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
Prefontaine
Primeval
Sky High
Tarzan
The 13th Warrior
The Aristocats
The Brothers Grimm
The Emperor's New Groove
The Fox and the Hound 2
The Great Raid
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Queen
The Waterboy
Unbreakable
Valiant
Venus

All available to DL and Watch right now!

 

[crazy4wdw]

35 Disney films coming to Xbox 360

July 11, 2007: 12:09 PM EST

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) says it has struck a deal to make 35 Disney movies, such as the animated hit 'Aladdin' and the action title 'Armageddon,' available for download on its online video game service.

The high-definition movies will be available to U.S. subscribers of Microsoft's Xbox Live, said Peter Moore, a corporate vice president in Microsoft's entertainment and devices division, which is responsible for the Xbox business.

The agreement with Disney-ABC Domestic Television will also allow Xbox 360 owners to rent films on demand as they become available from Walt Disney Pictures , Touchstone Pictures, Miramax Films and Hollywood Pictures.

Xbox Live already offers movies and television shows from more than two dozen other content providers, the company said.

The service has more than 7 million members, a figure that will hit 10 million by June, Moore said a news conference.

He used the event on the eve of the E3 Media & Business Summit to tout the system's lineup of holiday games.

One title called 'Scene it?' is a movie-trivia board game that Microsoft will sell with four simplified, large-buttoned wireless controllers.

Moore mentioned other games, including the anticipated sci-fi shooter 'Halo 3' from Bungie Studios, 'Mass Effect' from BioWare Corp. and 'Grand Theft Auto IV' from Rockstar Games.

To go along with the Sept. 25 launch of Halo 3, Microsoft will sell a Halo-themed version of its Xbox 360 console.

Last week, Microsoft extended the warranty for Xbox 360 consoles that stop working because of a vague condition the company calls 'general hardware failure.' The company said it expected to spend more than $1 billion to repair broken machines.

In an interview Tuesday, Moore said he did not expect the news to dampen spirits at E3.

'I think that news is behind us. I certainly think that it is something that has been well-received by the community,' Moore said, explaining that comments on message boards were resoundingly positive, with many thanking Microsoft for standing by its product.

Microsoft's Xbox 360 was released in late 2005 and leads the current generation of console wars in the United States with 5.6 million units sold, according to the NPD Group, a market research company.

Worldwide, however, 11.6 million Xbox 360s have been sold, short of the company's target of 12 million units.

Nintendo Co.'s Wii, which debuted in November, has sold 2.8 million units domestically, while the PlayStation 3 console from Sony Corp. (NYSE:SNE) was ranked third with 1.4 million consoles sold in the United States since its release late last year.

 

[EUROPACL]

I booted up my 360, went to the market place and found...

Alice In Wonderland
Armageddon
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Bad Company
Bringing Down The House
Cold Creek Manor
Coyote Ugly
Déjà Vu
Ghosts of the Abyss
Gone Fishin'
Grosse Pointe Blank
Hercules
Meet the Deedles
Metro
Mighty Joe Young
Moonlight Mile
Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pooh's Heffalump Movie
Prefontaine
Primeval
Sky High
Tarzan
The 13th Warrior
The Aristocats
The Brothers Grimm
The Emperor's New Groove
The Fox and the Hound 2
The Great Raid
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Queen
The Waterboy
Unbreakable
Valiant
Venus

All available to DL and Watch right now!

I don't know if I should laugh or cry about that list.

 

[Chux]

I don't know if I should laugh or cry about that list.

Well, considering it was announced at Midnight, and at 12:05 those titles were already available...

I mean we're not even 24 hours into the deal yet, what did you expect?

 

[EUROPACL]

Well, considering it was announced at Midnight, and at 12:05 those titles were already available...

I mean we're not even 24 hours into the deal yet, what did you expect?

You're missing my point...quality not quantity.

 

[Chux]

You're missing my point...quality not quantity.

They're doing it smart. Which sucks for us, because they'll have one or two great flicks (Alice) but a handful of stinkers. People will buy the less popular movies because it's what available, then when the better movies come out, they'll get them too, since it's what they really want.

Nintendo is doing the same thing with their Virtual Console system, and I hate it, but that's business.

 

[pedro2112]

What.. no Song of the South?