Jul
This weekend I turned on my Xbox 360 for the first time in a while. Played some games, then looked at the Xbox Live Marketplace to see what was there. They had some clips and trailers from Comic Con for free download. I loaded one up and took a look. They also had a free download of the first episode of Jericho.
They had it available in HD so I downloaded it. I’d been meaning to watch the show, I just somehow missed it when it was on the air. The show was canceled but saved by its fans when they sent over something like 20 tons of nuts to the network to show their support. The download service was pretty cool. It just downloaded in the background, and as soon as it got to about 10% it said it was ready to play. It just continued downloading while I watched. No problems, the interface was simple. No commercials, of course. And in HD! I don’t know that I’d want to “buy” episodes of shows on Xbox Live, in general. The hard drive on my Xbox is the original one, only 20 gigs. It would fill up pretty quickly if I were getting lots of shows on it. There’s no permanence to it. Maybe if it were a “rental” for a few cents instead…