the download speeds are HORRIBLE!

Bill Gates has nothing to do with it you kidiot.



But yeah, these servers are complete crap. It takes me forever to even make the transaction to order a movie. It also took over 3 hours to download a 1.5gb movie. This is annoying, and unless they fix it, this video marketplace is going to fail big time.

Having decided to test this glorious service (cough) I ran into first a failure to download with a nice message that stated that my points were used, and tough *****, luckly it appears that it was intelligent enough to at least recall my transaction and allowed me to attempt to download it again. Doing so, failed yet once more only by simply not downloading at all. I gave up and decided to tinker with a demo I recently downloaded, after that i decided to try once more for the fun of it, while it downloaded something, it was a far cry from what I ordered. Seems to off to a good start (haha).



Hopefully everyone else is having better experiences with it than I am, but over all, I'd be wary of it right now until they get the bugs taken care of.



Rahkaral,

- Derek Hays -

I waited one hour for V for Vendeta in HD to get to 4% (!), only to have the thing cancel itself. Upon re-downloading it and waiting another hour for it to get to 10%, I get a "V for Vendeta could not be downloaded" message, and it cancels. I tried re-downloading it (AGAIN) at 2 AM, and by 3 AM it was at 25%. The lesson here is: DO NOT DOWNLOAD MOVIES AT BUSY TIMES. It will only lead to pain. Just leave it on over-night, save yourself the torment.



To the guy above me, I don't care how large server load is, the crap should download faster than 1% every 15 god-damned minutes, even at busy hours.

either video market place is hosted somewhere different than the demos and such, or the bandwidth is being throttled seriously.



a 1gig demo still downloads pretty fast, but a 220meg tv episode takes way over an hour. i can usually download the same size file in about 5 mins.



if the video marketplace can't handle the relatively small number of users attempting to use it now, how is it going to handle christmas day?



excellent job otherwise m$, just give us more bandwidth damnit...

I think microsoft just fixed it, but if they did not just yet it will get better I remember last year when game demos took forever, now they are much quicker and yes the tv and movie downloads are not on the same servers as game demos.

this is a sweet new service....i love it....you guys are retards for complaining since of course its goin to be a little slow...the world will be downloading everything.....just be happy they came up with this amazing idea.....besides my dl only took about 45 mins for a movie....pretty good if you ask me