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.