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Xbox Live Video Marketplace Launches

Check out your Xbox 360, because the Video Marketplace went live yesterday. They are now selling a bunch of movies and TV shows for download. I did a video of it, but am having some trouble with the editing. Hopefully, I’ll have it up sometime today.

So, first off, pricing: TV shows, regardless of length, are 160 Microsoft Points ($2). High definition costs more, 240 MS Points ($3). Movies are divided into new releases and “classics” (a dubious description at best). Classics are 240 MS Points ($3) in standard def, 360 MS Points ($4.50) in HD. New releases are 320 MS Points ($4) in standard, 480 MS Points ($6) in HD.

There are 48 movies and 50 TV series available at launch.

Movies include:

V for Vendetta
Poseidon
ATL
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The Matrix
9 1/2 Weeks
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
Analyze This
Art of War
Ask The Dust
Unforgiven
The Lake House
Failure to Launch
Ask the Dust
Chinatown
Congo
The Core
Galipoli
Patriot Games
Pootie Tang
Rat Race
Rosemary’s Baby
Star Trek VII: Generations
The Sum of All Fears
Timeline
We Were Soldiers
Zoolander

TV shows include:

Star Trek: The Original Series
CSI
CSI:NY
CSI:Miami
Jericho
South Park
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Frisky Dingo
Harvey Birdman
Moral Orel
Robot Chicken
Sealab 2021
Chappelle’s Show
Drawn Together
Mind of Mencia
Supernatural
Veronica Mars
NCIS
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Beavis and Butthead
Breaking Bonaduce
Carpocalypse
Late Night With Conan O’Brien
Viva Pinata
Family Guy
Day Break

Here’s a video by Joystiq of the interface:

Coverage at Joystiq, Major Nelson, Engadget, Xbox 360 Fanboy.

Download speeds seem slower than normal at the moment, as they try to figure out how to get the network to handle all this extra traffic, but expect speeds to get up to normal within a few days. One dissapointing thing: The lack of HD content. Gizmodo has a list of everything in HD on the Video Marketplace, and its a damn short list. Besides 95 episodes of CSI and 51 episodes of NCI, there are only 12 other episodes, 8 of them Jericho, 4 Fights.

The list of HD Movies isn’t any better: