Microsoft ends digital retail of movies and tv shows

[Fiffy]

Originally Posted by veritas

I mean I hope your right but just last year Sony pulled this same playbook and just took the pr hit rather then the financial one. Arguably Sony had more to lose considering their studio portion of business but they still burned bridges over a bit of money.

I haven't followed this closely, but AFAIK most content from the Playstation movie store is still accessible to users. There was a kerfuffle when they announced that they had to remove Discovery content due to expiring licenses, but AFAIK that was resolved too.

[veritas]

Originally Posted by Fiffy

I haven't followed this closely, but AFAIK most content from the Playstation movie store is still accessible to users. There was a kerfuffle when they announced that they had to remove Discovery content due to expiring licenses, but AFAIK that was resolved too.

The one I was referring to was them pulling the plug on Funimation last year which didn't even have a way to download the digital copies. And they got a pretty large shit storm of bad pr for it but just kind of ignored it and gave people a token streaming free trial. But ya Sony has done it a couple of times same with Walmart and Microsoft though those were music distribution.

I was naive like you when Funimation shut down as Sony had a lot of skin in the game to not burn bridges in the vod market but clearly studios don't care about vod services anymore and will let them fail.

It just seems like a when pigs fly situation for Microsoft to spend money to migrate users to the competitions platforms or continue support for a service not making them money indefinitely. The only ones that could realistically step in are the studios but they clearly don't care.

[bhampton]

It's good whenever Microsoft ends anything.

Online movie services end instantly and anyone who enjoys using them should really know that by now.