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    Angry Xbox LIVE marketplace woes

    Hey everyone,

    Just bought a 360 elite the other day, I guess I should of done a little research on the xbox live stuff prior to getting 12mths gold subscription.

    I see in the US they have heaps of marketplace content available, TV shows, movies all kinds of stuff. I am Guessing due to rights they are not available to Australian residents. Does anyone know if I 'move' to the US tonight, would it enable the other content?

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    I remember reports of people successfully doing that a while back but I was actually reading about it in an article about Microsoft cracking down on console/user regional mismatches.

    Of course after reading the article I gave it a go, created a new Live user account where the address was a US one and it did bring up all the overseas content but that was prolly about a year ago now so not sure what they've done to combat it, if anything..............tez

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    Yeah, it just interests me because, perhaps I missed it but nowhere through any of the processes involved in signing up for the xbox live did I see mention that some content 'could' be restricted based on region.

    People are probably rolling their eyes reading this, though... ALL of the literature that came in the box, introduction movie when doing initial setup, live signup etc clearly states you will be given access to downloadable content such as 'TV shows', 'Movies' and some other junk etc.

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    If you create a US account you can see their marketplace, you won't be able to download their movies and tv shows though.

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    I bought my grandson a 360 for xmas and now find that I have to join xbox live to get a aac codec so he can use his ipod.
    Is there anywhere else I can get this codec?
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    dunno try this link i suppose?

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    Quote Originally Posted by xnavyman View Post
    I bought my grandson a 360 for xmas and now find that I have to join xbox live to get a aac codec so he can use his ipod.
    Is there anywhere else I can get this codec?
    Thanks.
    to get the codecs do you mean you need to do the dashboard update?

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    I think the codec comes through live, I've seen posts about it before (lots referencing this ms help ). You could always do a "Silver" Live membership which is free and get the update that way, I believe its covered in Silver.

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    The first month of any Live account is a gold membership anyway (or was) so either way it should be ok.

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