Limited XBVM will be available to Europe soonish

Our mother ship Joystiq just received a tip confirming that the Xbox Live Video Marketplace will be rolling out to Europe rather soon, but it will only be available to a few countries. The European Video Marketplace confirmation comes straight off of a 4200 Microsoft points card (that was manufactured in Ireland) and on the back it gives all the deets. The card states that "great movies" (no television episodes?) can be rented using the points only in the UK, Ireland, France and Germany. Interesting ...

We've been promised a Canadian and European Video Marketplace rollout by the year's end, but Microsoft has been hush-hush surrounding the details and so far nothing concrete has surfaced. But now, with our Microsoft points card smoking gun evidence, we're going on record to say that next week's Fall Update will usher in Video Marketplace love for more than just the United States. Though, it'll be interesting to see how entertaining the limited and somewhat crippled XBVM will be.