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A little rant is about to take place here, so prepare yourself with enough fire power to take down a zombie army.

Lately I’ve been actually watching more movies and television then playing video games, probably because there is Red Box 1 block away from my house and I’ve been getting into all these new TV shows out there. Since I wanted to see the new American Pie movie on my TV and the Red Box does not have it, I decided to go to the Xbox Live Movie Marketplace, Zune. I searched for it, found it, refused to pay the outrageous fee for it. You get to keep the movie for 24 hours when renting after you pressed play. I used to rent from Zune because it was cheaper then heading down to Movie Gallery and picking one up there, after you added the gas price in with it.

I refused to pay for this movie because you have to pay 320MSP just for the Standard Definition, which adds up to around $4USD. I could easily just walk down a block and rent 4 new movies (not including tax) for the same price. Why do they think this is a good idea? Well it’s Microsoft. I believe there TV Shows are the same way. It’d probably be cheaper just to go out and buy the Season on DvD (or blu-ray) and you could also watch it anytime, anywhere, anyplace you want. I think this is ridiculous and MS needs to revise there prices before it’s too late, Red Box is taking over the Movie business.

Now the final part to the Zune is the Music Video section, and ohh-muh-gawd is it awful! You can watch the Music Videos for free through YouTube or you can set up the Media Center from your PC to the Xbox and watch some that way, at least I do. I think it’s ridiculous (again) how you have to pay $1-$2 for a Music Video now, but when it first launched on the Pre-NXE it was free. I don’t understand how things work in the media business but I know for a fact that these prices do not bring in a lot of revenue. Hell the Red vs Blue episodes cost money on Zune while you go to there site and you can watch for free, or even better yet, buy the Box Set and DvDs for a lot cheaper then what Zune offers. I’m hoping that Microsoft fixes the prices in the future to lower them, but that’s like asking someone to jump off a mountain with no parachute. Would you do it?

That’s it for now, stay tuned for the next rant which will be talking about the Xbox Live Game Marketplace, oh please help us.

Prices all come down to $4 per Standard Definition Movie, $2 per TV Show Episode, and $1-2 per Music Video.
Note: these prices are for renting, not buying, except for the Music Video.

If you want to watch FREE TV Shows on your computer, then head on over to Hulu.com, they also have a small selection of Movies to watch.