p2pnet.net News:- Starting on November 22, Microsoft, “trying to wring a profit from its Xbox video-game console,” will be using it to hopefully peddle high-def movies and TV shows from CBS, MTV Networks and Warner Bros, says Bloomberg News.

Mission Impossible III is one of the flics featured and like MI-III instructions, the shows, loaded with DRM (digital restrictions management) consumer control technonology, will self-destruct after a period of time.

“The company says the video content can be downloaded through its online video-game service and beamed straight onto t-v sets,” says the Associated Press.

Included will be the likes of South Park, C-S-I and Pimp My Ride, as well as flics such as V for Vendetta and Superman Returns .

Microsoft will be competing with existing corporate movie and TV downloads, and ideo-on-demand from cable companies and high-definition channels offered by cable and satellite TV companies, says Bloomberg, adding:

“Customers have 14 days to begin playing a movie once it’s selected. Once they start watching, they have 24 hours to finish. Users can take a show or film to a friend’s house using the removable hard drive or memory stick from the Xbox 360 machine.”

Microft hasn’t said how much it hoes to get from its DRM downloads.

Also See:
Bloomberg News – Microsoft to Sell High-Definition Movies, TV on Xbox, November 6, 2006
Associated Press – Microsoft offering movies over Xbox Live, November 7, 2006

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