Microsoft ends digital retail of movies and tv shows

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Originally Posted by Fiffy

So far they haven't taken away anything. My guess: they'll keep the service running for a number of years until very few users are left, and then come up with a way to migrate the non-MA movies elsewhere for very little cost.

Unlikely the usual operation is you stop selling but keep the servers up for a few months to a year then kill the server bricking the media for the remaining users. It lowers bad pr as the service was already dead so less people are watching people get screwed. If they wanted to migrate people they would have done it now as that’s good pr but expensive.

If the pr is to bad they say oh we made it up to them here’s a month of Xbox live or something which is what crunchyroll did.