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Zune Marketplace to be down for 24 hours come Monday photo

To save you time I'm going to have everyone raise their hands. Now, everyone who does not own a Zune put your hands down. Now, everyone who uses Xbox 360's Zune Marketplace keep your hands up and everyone else put your hands down. Everyone with their hands up, please keep reading... all three of you.

Come Jan. 25 Xbox Live's Zune Marketplace will be going under scheduled maintenance for up to 24 hours. The maintenance will begin at 10 p.m. and end when it ends. During this time, which is sure to be quite harrowing for all, you won't be able to download new videos or music. Your current library will be entirely accessible, however.

Oh, and it looks like one of you three people still reading has fallen asleep. Well, for the two of you that care... oh no, the other guy was actually a cactus standing in the corner. OK, for you, the one guy still caring, I hope this downtime doesn't hurt you too deeply.








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Zeta Crossfire's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 01:03
Zeta Crossfire
Noes, oh well I guess I wont get anything off zune market place monday... I this reminds me I do need to go download more music with my zune pass...
Riegel88's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 01:04
Riegel88
I love my Zune, way more than an Ipod, and I love my PS3 way more than a 360. Biases aside, this doesn't bother me because I don't pay for the marketplace stuff. Just use it to listen to music, and add crap to my zune, and it actually isn't a bad program, WAY faster than itunes. I do miss last.fm though.
armless-phelan's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 01:10
armless-phelan
This had better be for that Xvid and AVI update I've been hearing about.
Electrium's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 01:15
Electrium
What the heck is a Zune
letshavecake's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 01:17
letshavecake
and above me are the 3 people that cared.
letshavecake's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 01:23
letshavecake
including Electruim
dethtoll's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 01:35
dethtoll
Haha. I like it, letshavecake.
Ratzaroony's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 01:48
Ratzaroony
...and nothing of value was lost.
SuperEgoManiac's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 01:49
SuperEgoManiac
Hmm, seems a bit unnessecarily harsh on the Zune Marketplace. I use it every now and again to rent a movie if its not on Netflix. Why all the hate Matthew?
GodofWar86's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 01:49
GodofWar86
Thanks for the update I'll let the other Zune owner know about this.
Pushtrak's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 02:31
Pushtrak
I don't even have any idea on how good Zunes are. Zune is a perfect example of how not to launch a product. Is it even going to be released outside N.A?
Witherbucket's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 02:31
Witherbucket
I am that one guy, but it's all cool, no worries.
hpv's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 02:43
hpv
I hope they're patching in a fix for the zune marketplace channel showing up on my 360 dashboard. It's even less useful than the stupid mcdonald's gamerpic ads and much more annoying.
CRAZYAPE69's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 03:25
CRAZYAPE69
is this really such a shame?
llort het's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 03:38
llort het
So this is how Microsoft treats it's few desperately clinging customers
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 04:12
Chronic Logic
I don't think Microsoft is fully exploiting the Zune's potential.
Tarvu's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 08:21
Tarvu
All I know about this is that if I want to watch video on my hard drive it takes about a minute because now it loads this bullshit.
whateverthismeanstoyou's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 09:43
whateverthismeanstoyou
Yes, I am an early adopter of Zune HD. It doesn't work with my Lexus iPod connector. I can only use in Aux port. Zune Market place, to this day, has absolutely nothing worth to talk about. HD streaming is good, but it's nothing without compelling programs and contents. Microsoft I am looking at you to make this better. Make it happen and put some real contents. I would garble up Top Gears if you have put them on (netflix actually has at least one season streamed...)

On unrelated note, I was watching gamers bluray on my PS3 slim and realized how loud my PS3 slim works its fan. I first thought it was my 360 and turn it off then I realized that it was PS3 going crazy blowing hot air all over the place. I don't use PS3 as often as 360, but is this like...hmmmm....normal? Or is it about to go kablewy on me? Any thought you PS3 Nazies out there?
flabzilla's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 10:07
flabzilla
the entire market place was down for me yesterday for a few hours, anyone else from the uk have similer probs? Around 7pm - 9pm.
Anyway don't care about that zune channel, i just deleted it because it seems unesseary to open a seperate application just to watch a few game trailers every now and then.
Rammstein's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 10:08
Rammstein
I don't even know where to start. Oh wait:

Zune Marketplace is not just for Zune owners

Its still the XBox Live Video Marketplace, just with a different name. You can purchase 1080p video content, not just Zune media. You can learn a lot from something if you actually, you know, bothered to use it, Mr. Razak.

Now back to your regularly scheduled trollbait-post.

Also, I'm with Tarvu, it takes a WHOLE EXTRA SECOND to load videos off my Harddrive! Ugh!
Matthew Razak's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 10:16
Matthew Razak
@Rammstein

I use it pretty regularly, I was just making a joke about the perception that no one owns Zunes or uses them, which is a commonly held stereotype of the Zune market. I apologize for seeming inaccurate in my attempt to be humorous.
Coltronathon5000's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 10:34
Coltronathon5000
you had me at Zune, but lost me at Xbox
Rammstein's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 10:35
Rammstein
I didn't mean to sound/be a douche. D:

Allow me to apologize by saying that I found your Lonely Island reference hilarious!








Please don't hurt me. /hides
Tuxy79's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 11:16
Tuxy79
If MS bring subscription based Zune service outiside US, I'm all over that.
Daxelman's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 13:23
Daxelman
As long as it doesn't carry over onto the 26th.

"Stylo" comes out that day.
Imaginary Pebbles's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 14:15
Imaginary Pebbles
Man, I'm even writing this with my Zune HD. I wonder who the other two people are...
RenegadePanda's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 15:19
RenegadePanda
Wherever my 30GB Zune is, it's too old to do anything worthwhile. My PC decided to render my Zune software inactive, and my USB ports mysteriously stopped working. Because of this, I lost the cable.

I really hate using Zune video for all my videos on 360 though. Any vids from Japan now fail to display the Japanese text, and they all get crammed to the bottom of my list every now and then because the US Zune data doesn't know what they are. The grouping is off too, and constantly having to update the stupid thing when I watch videos is tremendously annoying, since I have to exit back out of it to get to a content list I can actually find.

In short, screw Zune video on 360. And screw my PC for ruining my Zune. Sorta.
TheTruth's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2010 16:12
TheTruth
If Zune Marketplace is any indication of a Zune's quality, I can see why they can't sell.
Old video Marketplace...where I didn't rent movies but I bought some music videos here and there....worked fine. They "upgrade" the dash to Zune Marketplace, the thing crashes or gets frozen trying to load a simple click on a square for info.
Why would anyone put up with long loads to open the price to something? I'm buying from you! Don't make me wait!
If they put together a Marketplace section with this kind of know how, well...yeah, I see how the Zune is such a joke if that quality carries over into the portable.

Good job, Microsoft. You used to have someone who actually purchased some stuff there, and now that the stupid thing is half broken, I never purchased anything again.
I just spend those same amount of dollars over in PSN. Because it works like it's supposed to with such unimportant functions like the ability to navigate and download fairly quickly without freezing the console.
I somewhat understand how Sony fanboys come to be. Microsoft creates them.
But xbox fanboys I still can't figure out how they came into their blind love given MS's constant bad treatment of it's customers. But then again, I'm still there on LIVE too, so aparently they have mastered mass hypnosis.

Yes, I had all these thoughts off reading about 24 hour maintenance.
Good business practice as always, Microsoft. I can always count on you to make your things run a little bit worse than they do before your "upgrades."
dontstaylong's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/25/2010 16:18
dontstaylong
my only beef with the zune marketplace is that supposedly you can "buy once, play on multiple screens," yet i've found no instructions on how to download onto my PC the one video i've bought. any idea?
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