Microsoft Adds Live TV Partners
Live Video gets new TV content and six new partners join Microsoft's campaign.
by Douglass C. Perry
March 27, 2007 - While the new $479 Elite Xbox 360 is making all the big news, Microsoft today also revealed six new Xbox Live Partners as well as special content coming to Xbox 360 soon.
Microsoft confirmed six new partners who plan to bring new TV and movie content to Xbox Live this spring. The list includes:
A&E Netwrk ("Dog the Bounty Hunter," "King of Cars," "Gene Simmons Family Jewels," "Driving Force" and "Criss Angel Mindfreak"
ADV Films (considered by many as the number one producer-distributor of ("anime") outside of Japan;
National Geographic ("Is It Real?", "Taboo", "21 Days to Baghdad" and "Air Force One")
New Line Cinema ("Snakes on a Plane," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning" and "Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny," "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" and "Magnolia")
TotalVid (a broad action-sports offering including extreme skiing and snowboarding, skateboarding, motocross, surfing and mountain biking)
Paramount Pictures (Paramount will offer high definition feature films including "Braveheart," "Team America: World Police," "World Trade Center" and "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.")
In addition, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release direct-to-video movies exclusively in HD on Xbox LIVE simultaneous with their availability on DVD, starting with "Sublime" and later offering "Babylon 5: The Lost Tales."
Microsoft's current partners, which include CBS Broadcasting Inc., Lionsgate Entertainment, MTV Networks Co., New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures Corp., Turner Broadcasting System Inc., Ultimate Fighting Championship and Warner Bros, have contributed to more than 1,500 hours of available content for download. From these companies Xbox 360 owners can watch shows from
Live Video gets new TV content and six new partners join Microsoft's campaign.
by Douglass C. Perry
March 27, 2007 - While the new $479 Elite Xbox 360 is making all the big news, Microsoft today also revealed six new Xbox Live Partners as well as special content coming to Xbox 360 soon.
Microsoft confirmed six new partners who plan to bring new TV and movie content to Xbox Live this spring. The list includes:
A&E Netwrk ("Dog the Bounty Hunter," "King of Cars," "Gene Simmons Family Jewels," "Driving Force" and "Criss Angel Mindfreak"
ADV Films (considered by many as the number one producer-distributor of ("anime") outside of Japan;
National Geographic ("Is It Real?", "Taboo", "21 Days to Baghdad" and "Air Force One")
New Line Cinema ("Snakes on a Plane," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning" and "Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny," "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" and "Magnolia")
TotalVid (a broad action-sports offering including extreme skiing and snowboarding, skateboarding, motocross, surfing and mountain biking)
Paramount Pictures (Paramount will offer high definition feature films including "Braveheart," "Team America: World Police," "World Trade Center" and "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.")
In addition, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release direct-to-video movies exclusively in HD on Xbox LIVE simultaneous with their availability on DVD, starting with "Sublime" and later offering "Babylon 5: The Lost Tales."
Microsoft's current partners, which include CBS Broadcasting Inc., Lionsgate Entertainment, MTV Networks Co., New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures Corp., Turner Broadcasting System Inc., Ultimate Fighting Championship and Warner Bros, have contributed to more than 1,500 hours of available content for download. From these companies Xbox 360 owners can watch shows from
