Microsoft Unceremoniously Kills Off The Xbox Movies & Tv Store

Microsoft has alternatively abruptly closed down its Movies & TV app, which is accessible connected Xbox and Windows PCs via nan Microsoft Store. This allowed group to rent aliases bargain movies aliases TV shows natively done their console aliases computer’s storefront, but successful a recently updated support page Microsoft said nan work has ended.

"Microsoft nary longer offers caller intermezo contented for purchase, including movies and TV shows, connected Microsoft.com, Microsoft Store connected Windows, and nan Microsoft Store connected Xbox" nan connection reads. "However, you tin proceed to entree your purchased contented successful nan Movies & TV app connected Xbox aliases Windows device."

Microsoft added that downloaded movies and shows will stay successful your relationship and proceed to play successful their maximum supported resolution, but there’s nary measurement of moving your purchased contented to different service. However, you tin motion up for Movies Anywhere, a work that lets you registry movies that you purchased connected different storefronts and sync them to different ones truthful you aren’t locked into 1 platform. According to nan Microsoft support page, it’s still imaginable to do this pinch your Movies & TV purchases if you’re successful nan US.

You tin besides proceed to instal different third-party video streaming and purchasing apps connected some nan Xbox and Windows stores, including Prime Video and Apple TV, and correct now thing is changing pinch those. The institution does not connection refunds connected erstwhile purchases.

Microsoft Movies & TV was first introduced arsenic Xbox Video successful 2012, which replaced nan Zune Video Marketplace it had been operating since 2006. It was Microsoft’s reply to nan likes of Apple’s iTunes Store and Amazon’s various on-demand offerings. Microsoft besides made a concerted effort to position nan ill-fated Xbox One, which first launched successful 2013, arsenic an all-in-one multimedia box, but today’s closure of nan Movies & TV app is yet different motion that it has now wholly moved connected from that era.

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