Microsoft unceremoniously kills off the Xbox Motio...

Microsoft has relatively abruptly closed down its Motion pictures & TV app, which is accessible on Xbox and Home windows PCs by way of the Microsoft Retailer. This allowed folks to lease or purchase motion pictures or TV reveals natively by means of their console or laptop’s storefront, however in a newly up to date support web page Microsoft mentioned the service has ended.

“Microsoft now not presents new leisure content material for buy, together with motion pictures and TV reveals, on Microsoft.com, Microsoft Retailer on Home windows, and the Microsoft Retailer on Xbox” the assertion reads. “Nonetheless, you’ll be able to proceed to entry your bought content material within the Motion pictures & TV app on Xbox or Home windows gadget.”

Microsoft added that downloaded motion pictures and reveals will stay in your account and proceed to play of their most supported decision, however there’s no manner of transferring your bought content material to a different service. Nonetheless, you’ll be able to join Movies Anywhere, a service that permits you to register motion pictures that you simply bought on completely different storefronts and sync them to different ones so that you aren’t locked into one platform. Based on the Microsoft assist web page, it’s nonetheless potential to do that together with your Motion pictures & TV purchases should you’re within the US.

You too can proceed to put in different third-party video streaming and buying apps on each the Xbox and Home windows shops, together with Prime Video and Apple TV, and proper now nothing is altering with these. The corporate doesn’t supply refunds on earlier purchases.

Microsoft Motion pictures & TV was first launched as Xbox Video in 2012, which changed the Zune Video Market it had been working since 2006. It was Microsoft’s reply to the likes of Apple’s iTunes Retailer and Amazon’s numerous on-demand choices. Microsoft additionally made a concerted effort to place the ill-fated Xbox One, which first launched in 2013, as an all-in-one multimedia field, however as we speak’s closure of the Motion pictures & TV app is one more signal that it has now fully moved on from that period.

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