The hottest Xbox 360 news from CES 2008 was not the HD DVD Xbox 360 (which now officially does not exist) - it's the slightly lower-key news that MGM and Disney are bringing their stuff to the Xbox Live Video Store.

As ever, it's the Americans that are getting it all first and best. Although... the Disney part of the deal isn't the proper Disney Disney, it's the Disney company's TV wing. So don't expect HD downloads of Disney movies. Instead, American Xbox Live downloaders get to watch TV shows from the Disney-ABC TV arm of the company.

Which means they'll get the next series of Lost in HD, along with Grey’s Anatomy, Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives. We won't, though, as Microsoft's already said that movies and music videos are enough for Europe.

So for us European lot? Well, if MGM has signed up to distribute its films via Xbox Live in the States, hopefully the relevant paperwork will soon be signed to have MGM's US launch movies - The Terminator, Rocky, Legally Blonde and The Silence of the Lambs - arrive on the still rather sparse and un-updated European Video Store.

And that Xbox 360 HD DVD edition? Didn't happen at all. That's a whole separate update...

(Via Microsoft)

For more news about CES 2008, check out the massive, never-ending, unstoppable barrage of coverage being generated by the brave team over at Shiny Media's Tech Digest. The iPod dock scene is really kicking off over there.

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