DJ_Longfellow

Lions Gate just released some movies in HD over XBOX Live.

-An American Haunting
-Hard Candy
-The Blair Witch Project
-Made
-Cecil B. Demented
-A Requiem for a Dream
-The Descent
-See No Evil


The Descent has my interest, but I think rentals are like 480 points (or $6ish) for a RENTAL only. You do NOT own the movie, just a rental.

Arpeggi

Jennifer Connelly in HD.

Fincher Fan

What's the deal with rentals?

DJ_Longfellow

I believe you can RENT a movie for 480 points (for HD...SD is less) and you keep it for like 2 days or 24 hours...I forget (never did it www.xbox.com has more info).

I think it actually STREAMS the movie for you, so you don't have to wait hours for it to download.

king slug

No, it downloads the movie. I rented a movie, and it downloaded to my hard drive. You have like a week or two to watch it, or when you press play to watch the movie you only have 24 hours to watch it, which ever comes first. After that the movie is still on your hard drive, but you cannot watch it anymore.

darkside

$5 for an HD download is not terrible, but it takes so long to download that I would still just prefer to go with Netflix. The biggest problem is 20Gb of storage. MS needs to address this soon.

FantasticVSDoom

Only good thing is being able to see LG movies in HD...Anyone watch any of these to see what the quality is?

DthRdrX

Yea. The Game demos that are around 900MBs take me like an hour to DL via DSL.

LivingINClip

Maybe it is just me, but I was not impressed with the HD downloads over Live.

Liver&Onions

http://www.videogametalk.com/review.php?ID=551

Here's the quick writeup I did on the Marketplace when it first came out.

I need to go back in there and compare the content offered online vs both BR and HD DVD now though.

Popler

Witch and Requiem in High Definition? My interest has been piqued...

If anyone downloads either of those, can you post what they look like compared to the standard DVDs if possible?

king slug

Comparison:http://www.jakeludington.com/hddvd/2...omparison.html

DJ_Longfellow

I Think you CAN start playing though after it builds up enough buffer though...correct? I'm tempted just to try it, but not sure.

Also, ALL those movies might not be there....I was just reporting what I read. I know TheDescent is, since I was looking around the Marketplace last night.

Tempting, but it's kinda a pricey rental to me.

candyrocket786

Are these 720p downloads?

Liver&Onions

Some movies have both 720p and 480p. Others only have 480.

Yes - it informs you when a show is ready to play. But with a 4+ gig download, don't expect it to be right away. for example last night I got an episode of south park - it was roughly 280mb and didn't become available to play until it was 40% complete.

The Bus

Also, be sure to snap these up when you can. Once a movie hits HBO, many times it is no longer available.

mmconhea

took me a while to download lady in the water for a movie night... didn't allow me to play until the movie was over. Though I gave it 3 hours lead time...It took from the afternoon into the night and by the time it was done... we were off to bed. Condidering my internet is blazing fast, looks like MS perhaps has network issues or is capping bandwidth... rendering this OD service useless for OD.