Microsoft announced today that its Xbox 360 console will soon offer more than just trailers, music and games - soon it will offer a massive amount of entertainment content from TV shows to movies via Xbox Live Marketplace. The company announced this week that it has teamed up with such entertainment powerhouses as CBS, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Turner Broadcasting, UFC and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment to digitally deliver a variety of content. Xbox 360 will become first gaming console to offer downloads of over 1,000 hours of TV shows such as CSI, Robot Chicken and South Park, and
movies such as V for Vendetta and Nacho Libre.
Beginning Nov. 22, on the first anniversary of the console, Xbox 360 will be the first gaming console in history to provide high-definition TV shows and movies
directly to gamers in their living rooms. Xbox 360 gamers will have access to the full-length TV shows as downloads to own and movies to rent via
download from the Xbox Live.
Content to land on Xbox Live by year's end includes Robot Chicken and Aqua Teen Hunger Force from Adult Swim; CSI, Survivor and Star Trek from CBS; South Park and Chappelle's Show from COMEDY CENTRAL; The Real World and Pimp My Ride from MTV;
Avatar: The Last Airbender and SpongeBob SquarePants from Nickelodeon; Skyland and The Nicktoons Network Animation Festival from Nicktoons Network; M:i:III, Nacho Libre and Jackass: The Movie from Paramount Pictures; Carpocalypse and Raising the Roofs from Spike TV; Race Rewind provided by NASCAR.COM; select episodes of the original season of The Ultimate Fighter reality series and the UFC: All Access shows from the UFC; Breaking Bonaduce and Hogan Knows Best from VH1;and The Matrix, Superman Returns and Batman Forever from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.
