Bugs Plague New Xbox 360 Video Service

eldavojohn writes "The BBC is running a story on problems with the Xbox 360's HD video service that went live a few days ago. I have wondered quite a bit how Microsoft runs the proxy caches for this service and how they are ensuring that their end consumers are not creating high amounts of internet traffic while downloading HD video." From the article: "Gamers can buy TV programmes but the movies are rented and are automatically deleted from the console's hard drive after a fixed period. 'We've made progress over the past 24 hours, and the team is dedicated to fixing the issues and continues to work as fast as they can around the clock to get the service running as seamlessly as you have come to expect,' wrote Mr Hryb, who is Xbox Live's director of programming, on his Major Nelson Xbox blog.

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Fixing the Wii problem

[Quila]

The troubling thing is that Nintendo seems to have the same problem

Switching my wireless router to channel 11 as suggested on the Nintendo site seems to have fixed all of my online problems.

Re:Anyone tried it out yet?

[Yvan256]

but it is like Apple's definition of HD, which is something ridiculous like 640 pixels wide?

Nice troll, but I'm betting you never downloaded an HD movie trailer from Apple's website. It's 1920x800 for widescreen content, such as the HD trailer for The Simpsons Movie.

Re:but..

[Ender Ryan]

Nice red herring. The exploding Sony batteries have nothing to do with the PS3. By your logic, I could be using the shittyness of Windows as an argument against the Xbox 360. That would in fact be more relevant, since the 360 runs a variant of Windows -- it's still irrelevant, since the "shittyness" of Windows doesn't really affect the 360 in any user-visible manner, but I digress.

I have a feeling that there is a lot of internal pressure for Sony not to offer video downloads because of the need to push the Blu Ray format

You have a feeling eh? Well I have lots of feelings too. I have a feeling your *irrational hatred of Sony is affecting your impartiality, as it has with so many of late.

* It's not so much that hating Sony is irrational. Sony has done plenty to reap hatred. What is irrational is the singling out of Sony, considering the track record of their competitors, and even more striking, the pettiness of their transgressions compared to other large corporations. But hate away all you like. 2 minute hates are fun for the whole family.