Video Marketplace now features Disney studios

by Richard Mitchell on Jul 11th 2007 5:30AM

During its E3 press conference yesterday, Microsoft announced that Video Marketplace will now feature films from Disney Studios. These studios include Miramax, Hollywood Films, Touchstone, and of course, Disney itself. Likely the largest aspect of this distribution deal is that Video Marketplace will now offer many of Disney's animated feature films. Frankly, we're hoping the selection broadens quickly, as Hercules, The Emperor's New Groove, and Tarzan aren't exactly the first films we think of when considering Disney classics (no Aladdin, no Lion King? For shame!). There are other films available as well, including Sky High, Waterboy, The Brothers Grimm, Unbreakable, and many others. All of the new Disney Studios content is available now.

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Reader Comments (5)

Brothers Grimm was the worst $10 I've ever spent in my LIFE. (Well, save the fact that I went into that movie drunk off my ass...)

You forgot Pixar!

On the subject of offering "Disney Animated Classics," I'm assuming they want me to download these for the kids. Well, that's not going to happen.

Kids(young ones, anyway) want to watch movies over and over again, sometimes for weeks on end. The DRM scheme on the video downloads will obviously prohibit such things. For the kids, I'll stick with DVD.

To be honest I am confused I thought Sony inked out some sort of deal with disney because all the disney releases are going to be in blu-ray and this is obviously counter to that.