Ok it's here! Finally the ability to download movies via our Xbox 360's. When I heard that we would be getting on demand 1080P movies from Nov 17th I was excited, but also somewhat depressed as I knew that in reality it probably wouldn't work well here with our crappy internet speeds, etc.


This morning I tried streaming the free 1080P 4 minute preview of Avatar, and I must say I'm impressed. It starts off by doing a quick test to determine if your connection will support 1080P streaming, mine passed. A couple of clicks and the movie started instantly.


For the first few seconds it resembled something off of YouTube, but that must be while it's buffering, then it came nice and clear. Not blu-ray clear, but pretty good!


And it stayed clear and jitter free for the entire 4 minutes! Ok that's not 90 minutes or 120 minutes, but it's promising.


I did this test at 9am, the next test will be to determine if it is still this good at peek traffic tonight. Fingers crossed.


I also noticed that after streaming, the movie has been added to my movie library, and will expire in 24 hours.




Rayden