L.A. Summit: Execs Report Blu-ray, Digital On Demand Increases
Blu-ray comprised 14% of Warner Home Video’s total Black Friday software sales this year, up from 9% during Black Friday 2008. Meanwhile, consumers now spend upwards of 15 million hours a month viewing...
View ArticleXbox Live Emerges As Would-Be Cable Competitor
Having amassed deals for Netflix streaming and video-on-demand downloads via its Xbox Live network, Microsoft is looking to play a bigger role in consumers’ TV and movie watching at home. Among the...
View ArticleChernin Pitches Microsoft On Xbox TV Channel
Bloomberg reports that former News Corp. President Peter Chernin has discussed with Microsoft the possible creation of a television channel delivered over the Xbox Live videogame network. The channel,...
View ArticleReport: Xbox Live To Offer Paid Hulu Subscriptions
Gadget blog Gear Live cites an anonymous source “who has never been wrong before” in reporting that Microsoft will unveil at the upcoming E3 Expo a deal to carry online video site Hulu on the Xbox Live...
View ArticleDigital Distribution On Xbox Spells $625M A Year For Microsoft: Estimate
How much is digital distribution worth to videogame console makers? Forbes “conservatively” estimates Microsoft, for one, to be earning at least $625 million in annual revenues from sales of virtual...
View ArticleMicrosoft ‘Probably’ Topped $1 Billion In Xbox Live Biz: Bloomberg
Microsoft has confirmed that sales of entertainment content and virtual goods over Xbox Live have surpassed the game network’s subscription business. That likely means the company earned more than $600...
View ArticleXbox To Sponsor Syfy’s Comic Con Outing, Stream Show Content
As part of a sponsorship between Microsoft’s Xbox and the Syfy cable TV network at Comic Con next week, the videogame publisher will distribute video of Syfy’s show panels and screenings over its Xbox...
View ArticleHackers Claim To Have Purloined Pre-Release Digital Copy of ‘Halo: Reach’
Microsoft’s decision to distribute review copies of its hotly anticipated “Halo: Reach” as secure downloads via the Xbox Live Marketplace appears to have had unintended consequences. A hacking team...
View ArticleMicrosoft: ‘Gold’ Level Xbox Price Hikes Take Effect In November
Microsoft is raising prices of several Xbox Live subscription levels in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and the UK by as much as 25% beginning November 1. “Gold” level subscribers in the U.S. will pay $2...
View ArticleMicrosoft Says It Will Integrate Skype Into Xbox
Making the announcement today that it would acquire Internet communications company Skype for $8.5 billion in cash, Microsoft said that Skype would support a range of products, including Kinect video...
View ArticleMicrosoft Adding Access to TV Programming for Xbox 360 Subscribers
Microsoft seeks to further establish the Xbox 360 as an access point for all forms of home entertainment, announcing plans to integrate content and services from the likes of cable operator Comcast and...
View ArticleConsole Gamers Using Systems for Video, Other Media: PwC
by Terence Keegan How much “game” do game consoles still have? One in eight video game consumers (13 percent) uses a console system for “non-gaming” activities such as video or music on a daily basis,...
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