Microsoft unceremoniously kills off the Xbox Motion pictures & TV retailer

Microsoft has quite 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 hire or purchase films or TV exhibits natively via their console or pc’s storefront, however in a newly up to date support web page Microsoft mentioned the service has ended.

“Microsoft now not provides new leisure content material for buy, together with films and TV exhibits, on Microsoft.com, Microsoft Retailer on Home windows, and the Microsoft Retailer on Xbox” the assertion reads. “Nonetheless, you possibly can proceed to entry your bought content material within the Motion pictures & TV app on Xbox or Home windows machine.”

Microsoft added that downloaded films and exhibits will stay in your account and proceed to play of their most supported decision, however there’s no approach of shifting your bought content material to a different service. Nonetheless, you possibly can join Movies Anywhere, a service that permits you to register films that you simply bought on totally different storefronts and sync them to different ones so that you aren’t locked into one platform. In response to the Microsoft help web page, it’s nonetheless doable to do that along with your Motion pictures & TV purchases when you’re within the US.

It’s also possible to 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 at this time’s closure of the Motion pictures & TV app is one more signal that it has now utterly moved on from that period.

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