Xbox 360 HD Movie Downloads To Take 15 Mins
March 21, 2008
Boston (dbTechno) - According to Virgin Media and Microsoft, high-definition movie downloads over Xbox Live should only take around 15 minutes to download. This means that by the end of 2008, HD movies may seem like a much more desirable asset for the Xbox 360.
Virgin Media stated that with the speeds of broadband services improving, it is likely that HD movie downloads will have shorter and shorter times in the future.
Virgin Media’s 50MB broadband service will be ready for over nine million homes by the end of 2008, and that is expanding to other broadband services as well.
Microsoft has been trying to push HD movie downloads over the Xbox 360 via the Xbox Live Marketplace, and has been pretty successful thus far.
Things are only going to improve though if they do manage to get the download times this small.
An Xbox spokesman stated that the downloads should be between 15-minutes and a half-hour.
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It takes for ever just to download a trailer from Live.
it only gets shorter from here folks. oh well…at least it’s not as slow as the hours needed to d/l anything from PSN.
Well you can watch as you download, right? so it doesn’t matter how long it really take, if you were to drive to blockbuster it’d take longer than 15mn, and if you were to do net flix it would take @lis 24hrs b4 you get your order, 15mins isn’t bad @ all.
“Ivan_PSP on March 21st, 2008 8:15 am
It takes for ever just to download a trailer from Live.”
Really? I’m not sure where you are or what your connection is like, but I’m in the US and I have Comcast. It takes only a few seconds between the time I start the trailer and it it starts playing. Also, I already thought that HD movies were a great thing for XBL. I don’t rent any of the movies unless they’re in HD. Also, it currently takes about 10-15 minutes between the time I start downloading a movie and XBL tells me that I can start watching it. Of course, downloading the entire movie takes longer. However, sometimes I plan for it and start downloading the movie, do other things and come back.
This isn’t anything recent because its been the same for months now.
“It takes for ever just to download a trailer from Live.”
I’m in UK and only takes a few seconds too to start a trailer.
Maybe you should consider changing ISP! Demo/Arcade/movie downloads are always fast too.