Microsoft unceremoniously kills off the Xbox Films & TV retailer

Microsoft has fairly abruptly closed down its Films & TV app, which is accessible on Xbox and Home windows PCs by way of the Microsoft Retailer. This allowed folks to lease 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 mentioned the service has ended.

“Microsoft 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. “Nonetheless, you’ll be able to proceed to entry your bought content material within the Films & TV app on Xbox or Home windows system.”

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 approach of transferring your bought content material to a different service. Nonetheless, you’ll be able to 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. Based on the Microsoft assist web page, it’s nonetheless attainable to do that together with your Films & TV purchases when you’re within the US.

You may as well 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 Films & 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 right now’s closure of the Films & TV app is one more signal that it has now fully moved on from that period.

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