Microsoft unceremoniously kills off the Xbox Motion pictures & TV retailer

Microsoft has relatively 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 individuals to hire or purchase motion pictures or TV exhibits natively by means of their console or laptop’s storefront, however in a newly up to date support web page Microsoft stated the service has ended.

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

Microsoft added that downloaded motion pictures and exhibits will stay in your account and proceed to play of their most supported decision, however there’s no manner of shifting your bought content material to a different service. Nevertheless, you may join Movies Anywhere, a service that allows you to register motion pictures that you just bought on completely different storefronts and sync them to different ones so that you aren’t locked into one platform. In keeping with the Microsoft help web page, it’s nonetheless potential to do that together with your Motion pictures & TV purchases when you’re within the US.

You too can 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 provide 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 fully moved on from that period.

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