Microsoft Movies & TV (US only), or Microsoft Films & TV (Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand), previously Xbox Video and

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Video, is a digital video service developed by

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that offers

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movies and TV shows available for rental or purchase in the ''Video Store'' as well as an app where users can watch and manage videos from their personal digital collections stored locally. The service is available on all Xbox consoles beginning with

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, and all Microsoft Windows computers beginning with

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. Movies & TV is also accessible on the web. Zune Video Marketplace was released in 2006, and was replaced by Xbox Video on October 14, 2012. Renamed Movies & TV in 2015, the service now generally competes more directly with similar online video stores including

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, Google TV, and

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History

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's original video store was replaced by

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on September 15, 2009. At

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, Microsoft announced their 1080p

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video service, which allows users to stream video over an internet connection. This technology is a key part of Xbox Video for their video streaming service. With the announcement of Xbox Music services which would replace the Zune Marketplace music service, speculation arose about "Xbox Video", a potential service that would offer movies and television series, because the term "music" in the name of the service gave the impression that Xbox Music will offer strictly music, thus excluding films and television series. With the launch of

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, Xbox Video appears under the name of ''Film & TV'' in the apps, with the shopping for the content merged into the

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as a whole as part of Microsoft's ''universal apps'' initiative. However the name and branding of ''Xbox Video'' remains active on all the previous platforms and the official website. On September 17, 2015, with a system update for the

, the name of the app changed to reflect the new branding. The

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app had also changed in a previous update. After previously being linked with Movies Anywhere in the past, Microsoft Movies & TV announced that they would be rejoining the service on August 6, 2018.

Geographical availability

Supported formats

The app in Windows 10 supports a number of formats, including: * .m4v *

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* .mov *

.asf Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. ASF is part of the Media Foundation framework. ...

.avi Audio Video Interleave (also Audio Video Interleaved and known by its initials and filename extension AVI, usually pronounced ), is a proprietary multimedia container format and Windows standard introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as par ...

.wmv Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/ digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. ASF is part of the Media Foundation framework ...

.m2ts .m2ts is a filename extension used for the Blu-ray disc Audio-Video (BDAV) MPEG-2 Transport Stream (M2TS) container file format. It is used for multiplexing audio, video and other streams. It is based on the MPEG-2 transport stream container.Blu ...

.3g2 3GP (3GPP file format) is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for 3G UMTS multimedia services. It is used on 3G mobile phones but can also be played on some 2G and 4G phones. 3G2 (3GPP2 ...

.3gp2 3GP (3GPP file format) is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for 3G UMTS multimedia services. It is used on 3G mobile phones but can also be played on some 2G and 4G phones. 3G2 (3GPP ...

* .3gpp *

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(on Windows 10 version 1809 and newer)

References

External links

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Microsoft Movies & TV
on

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History

Geographical availability

Supported formats

See also

References

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