Looks like the raping of more than a few people is taking place with the new Microsoft Movie Marketplace service. What's worse, is that these problems are happening to the worst people Microsoft could piss off -- pseudo-journalists with huge audiences. Besides my own troubles, the peeps at Gizmodo got completely pwned. Here are a few good words of wisdom from the site before you go droppin' points on anything:
Speeds Should Get Better...Maybe: The system is getting hammered, and downloads are going slug-slow, or failing all together. The service stopped my movie download half way, and wouldn't download more unless I bought it again. Then I tried buying an HD movie, which failed, but took my cash anyhow (see image)
If the system knows it took my money without showing me what it had to show me, don't you think you should give me a refund?
Other things I've learned:
•You can't FF or Skip Chapters in a movie until its completely downloaded.
•Also, downloaded movies can't be re-downloaded, even within your rental period.
•You can't download movies on other machines if you're within your grace period, either.
•There are no movie menus, ala DVD.
Contest:
6:05 PM on 11.23.2006
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I believe TV episodes you can redownload anytime you want as I didn't get charged when the first one failed and they have no expriation on them.
I have not tried the movies yet, thank god.
Look around you, nobody invests money in that kind of thing. Roads jam up in rush hours, cinemas fill up when there are blockbusters released, Amazon grinds to a halt when they sell cores for $100.
Oh wait....
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I completely agree with Summa about how MSoft should've been prepared or at the very least warned consumers AHEAD OF TIME that speeds would be this bad because this is ridiculous.
But going back a minute, I'm just glad someone finally reported this. Apparently those f*cking idiots over at Joystiq don't consider this problem significant enough. I thought I was the only one having this problem until I came to this website.
Thanks for the updates, Rob. But getting back to the topic, I wouldn't touch the full-length movies for at least a week because of the size. I do know for a fact that if you purchase a tv show and have to cancel the d/load or it fails on you, you'll still have the ability to re-d/load as many times as you want because you own it...I think. At least that's how it's been for me with this South Park episode I've been trying to d/load since last night. Right now I'm at 42% and should finish at about 2am if I'm lucky.
As a UK resident, I'm not entirely fussed at this. When it eventually is released, being able to watch the Daily Show or the Colbert Report would be nice but logistically challenging.
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