Meshuggah Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 (edited) http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/03/first_hd_episod.html Tune in to the adventures of Butters every week? Wait until you see him in HD.Wired News has learned that on Tuesday, March 6, Microsoft and Viacom will release the first-ever high-definition episode of the Comedy Central series South Park exclusively on Xbox Live Marketplace.For the first two weeks of availability, all Xbox Live members will be able to download the episode, titled "Good Times With Weapons," for free. Additionally, from March 20 through April 3, Best Buy will offer free HD-DVD discs featuring the episode with any purchase of an Xbox 360 console, or the HD-DVD add-on player. South Park's eleventh season begins Wednesday at 10 PM on Comedy Central; new episodes will appear on Xbox Live Marketplace the following week. Chris says: This is seriously cool news. Not only is Good Times With Weapons one of the best South Park episodes ever -- it's the one that riffs off Japanese anime -- it's also free, and in HD. As for the Best Buy deal, well, I'd rather have this episode of South Park in HD than the entirety of King Kong. Yes, I went there. http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/200.../05/542162.aspx Comedy Central is releasing the first-ever South Park episode in High Definition, available exclusively on Xbox Live, for free, for two weeks. It's available to both Gold and Silver Xbox Live members. Beginning tomorrow, fans of South Park are going to see just how good Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman really look with the launch of the first-ever high definition episode "Good Times With Weapons." The free episode will go up sometime early tomorrow, and will end on March 20, at 7:59 am (GMT), March 19 11:59 pm (EST). Starting March 20, Best Buy will offer free HD DVDs of the "Good Times With Weapons" episode with the purchase of any Xbox 360 console or HD DVD drive, through April 3, while supplies last. Also for the first time ever, the newest episodes from Season 11 will be available uncensored on Xbox LIVE beginning March 13. Sweet! Or should I say *$%&! The episode will be available in the following countries: * United States * Canada * Belgium * Netherlands * Hong Kong * Korea * Taiwan * Singapore * Australia * New Zealand (Unfortunately, due to restrictions from Comedy Central, South Park in HD will only be available in English with no options for sub-titles.) A few more details are in the press release from Comedy Central, and on Xbox.com. http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/200.../06/542194.aspx South Park HD Coming to EuropeGreat news for fans of South Park in Europe. Graeme Boyd, the European "Major Nelson", in his AceyBongos blog, offers up the news that the free episode will be available to Xbox Live subscribers! From his blog: You might have seen on Major Nelson that a free HD episode of South Park - called 'Good Times With Weapons' - is heading to Xbox Live Marketplace today courtesy of Comedy Central. Unfortunately it was originally only intended for North America, Australia and New Zealand, and some territories in Asia. The only European territories that were getting the episode were Netherlands and Belgium. Well, you made your voice heard and we've listened - the South park episode will now be available in ALL European countries with Live! We want to send our apologies for the disappointment the original announcement caused amongst the European community but hope that making the episode available helps to ease that disappointment. Couple of things to note - the episode is English-language only with NO dubbing or subtitles, and it's uncensored too, so don't be surprised if you hear the odd rudie. As for the reason for the content not being made available from the start, there's a load of quite dull and long-winded reasons why sometimes we can't always offer content in every region worldwide. It's legal stuff mostly, and sometimes language barriers and so on. Major Nelson actually has a good round-up of this kind of stuff in his FAQs. Point here is that we have managed to make the content available in Europe, so thanks for your patience - but please do remember that sometimes there are very strong reasons why we simply CANNOT offer certain pieces of content in certain areas. From my point of view, I think it's great that the community made its voice heard on this through Major Nelson and forums across the internet. I know it's not the best way to show it (I'd rather the content was just available to all of Europe in the first place), but this is proof that we can and do act on the wishes of the community. I know Major Nelson in particular has been instrumental in helping this decision being made, as well as a load of people doing lots of work behind the scenes. So, basically, keep telling us what you think - and keep doing it with passion! All that remains to say is: The South Park episode 'Good Times With Weapons' is available now, for free and in HD, in all European Live territories. :) episode info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Times_with_Weapons funny ep, but I wish it was the WOW episode instead. Edited March 7, 2007 by Meshuggah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AimLXJ Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 omg, no MS points :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meshuggah Posted March 5, 2007 Author Share Posted March 5, 2007 why the sad face? for the first two weeks it is free. :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+.Vamp Subscriber² Posted March 5, 2007 Subscriber² Share Posted March 5, 2007 Is this available in the UK too, cos i can never find where to buy/download movies or tv series's on marketplace?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AimLXJ Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 why the sad face? for the first two weeks it is free. :yes: I know but I want to keep it :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meshuggah Posted March 5, 2007 Author Share Posted March 5, 2007 I know but I want to keep it :s you can keep tv episodes....just not the movies. So stop crying :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrCheese Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 Is this available in the UK too, cos i can never find where to buy/download movies or tv series's on marketplace?? I seriously doubt it, so far we've been abandoned for any decent live marketplace content. Hopefully that will change in the future :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lasker Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 what about for the PC? can I download? mmm I guess no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AimLXJ Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 you can keep tv episodes....just not the movies. So stop crying :D So let me get this straight, For the first two weeks of availability, all Xbox Live members will be able to download the episode, titled "Good Times With Weapons," for free. for the first two weeks, the download is free and its not a trail or anything, its 100% yours, then after the two weeks the people who missed it can't download it for free anymore so they need to buy it. So is that how it goes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meshuggah Posted March 5, 2007 Author Share Posted March 5, 2007 what about for the PC? can I download? mmm I guess no if someone cracks the HD-DVD that gets bundled than sure why not....except it will be illegal So let me get this straight, for the first two weeks, the download is free and its not a trail or anything, its 100% yours, then after the two weeks the people who missed it can't download it for free anymore so they need to buy it. So is that how it goes? :yes: just like the free XBLA games they have released in the past Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolslacker Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 It sucks that it's not going to be available on PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AimLXJ Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 if someone cracks the HD-DVD that gets bundled than sure why not....except it will be illegal:yes: just like the free XBLA games they have released in the past Oh cool!!! I def. <3 my box, and my parents were forcing me to get a ps3 instead :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I am Reid Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 Why the hell are you people talking about this being on the PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Lyle Global Moderator Posted March 5, 2007 Global Moderator Share Posted March 5, 2007 sweet! ive seen this episode a few times.. but not in HD.. i'll have to rewatch it :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mystic MVC Posted March 5, 2007 MVC Share Posted March 5, 2007 sweet! ive seen this episode a few times.. but not in HD.. i'll have to rewatch it :D How? That episode hasn't aired yet, the season doesn't start until the 6th? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meshuggah Posted March 5, 2007 Author Share Posted March 5, 2007 How? That episode hasn't aired yet, the season doesn't start until the 6th? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Times_with_Weapons "Good Times with Weapons" is episode 112 of South Park. It is known popularily among fans as the "South Park Ninjas" episode. It originally aired on March 17, 2004. This was the first episode of Season 8, which Trey Parker and Matt Stone have jokingly referred to on the DVD commentary as "The Year From Hell". This was due to the fact that their film Team America: World Police was filmed, finished and premiered while they worked on this season, which caused a huge amount of writer's block amongst the staff. This was also one of 10 episodes to be featured on South Park: The Hits DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Star Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 I am going to get it! Do you need to have gold? My gold membership ran out...:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AimLXJ Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 No, they stated that ALL Gold and Silver members can get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mystic MVC Posted March 5, 2007 MVC Share Posted March 5, 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Times_with_Weapons Ah, I knew that sounded familar :p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Ride Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 Hey hey let's go kenka suruTaisetsu na mono protect my balls! :laugh: That was the best part of the whole episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrKuro Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 what only on the x360?!?! I'm sure some kind soul will leak it onto the interweb for me to acquire. HD southpark . . perfect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_dandy_ Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 Am I the only one who thinks a cartoon shown in HD--especially one animated as badly as South Park--is an exercise in futility? Not that I don't appreciate a good HD feed--but I just think that HD for a cartoon is kinda overkill. It's all straight lines and solid colors...there's no subtle details that'll come out better in HD. I'm sure I'm gonna get flamed for this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doli Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 Am I the only one who thinks a cartoon shown in HD--especially one animated as badly as South Park--is an exercise in futility?Not that I don't appreciate a good HD feed--but I just think that HD for a cartoon is kinda overkill. It's all straight lines and solid colors...there's no subtle details that'll come out better in HD. I'm sure I'm gonna get flamed for this... It just means HD resolution not fine details in south park. Its not like the animators will take the paper cut-out look a bit further and have a paper grain surface :) Since cartoons are done with computers (easy to color) going moving to HD will be easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightz Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 can't wait to get this episode. it was one of the funniest episodes i've seen. "invisible" cartman lol :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olemus Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 I hope this is gonna be for the UK too im sick of microsoft forgetting about everone except the US, its like we didnt buy there console and they dont care about us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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