Microsoft unceremoniously kills off the Xbox Films & TV retailer

Microsoft has moderately abruptly closed down its Films & TV app, which is accessible on Xbox and Home windows PCs through the Microsoft Retailer. This allowed folks to lease or purchase films or TV reveals natively by their console or laptop’s storefront, however in a newly up to date support web page Microsoft mentioned the service has ended.

“Microsoft not provides new leisure content material for buy, together with films and TV reveals, 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 Films & TV app on Xbox or Home windows machine.”

Microsoft added that downloaded films and reveals will stay in your account and proceed to play of their most supported decision, however there’s no method of shifting your bought content material to a different service. Nevertheless, you may join Movies Anywhere, a service that allows you to register films that you just bought on totally different storefronts and sync them to different ones so that you aren’t locked into one platform. In keeping with the Microsoft assist web page, it’s nonetheless attainable to do that along with your Films & TV purchases if you happen to’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 supply 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 at the moment’s closure of the Films & TV app is one more signal that it has now utterly moved on from that period.

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