Xbox Live Entertainment Apps Unlocked For All This Weekend [Updated]

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Richard Walker

Microsoft is unlocking all of the entertainment apps on the Xbox Live dashboard in the UK, US and Europe this weekend, allowing XBL Silver subscribers access to a variety of services including 4OD, BBC iPlayer, Demand 5, last.fm, Crackle, VEVO, Screenrush, YouTube, Dailymotion, blinkbox, Muzu.tv, msn Video and social apps Facebook and Twitter.

You'll also be able to take out 30-day trials of Netflix or LOVEFiLM if you haven't already, and enjoy all of the content open to Xbox Live Gold subscribers.

Movies, TV & Music unlocked for everyone, begins on April 20th and runs until April 23rd, giving you the perfect excuse to kick back and relax with some TV over the weekend. For more details, head over to Xbox.com.

[Thanks, Daniel]

[Update] Entertainment apps will be unlocked for everyone across Europe and North America too, with Major Nelson listing the following apps to check out in North America from April 19th-23rd:

  • CinemaNow
  • Crackle
  • Dailymotion
  • EPIX4
  • ESPN
  • HBO GO
  • Hulu Plus2
  • iHeartRadio
  • Last.fm
  • MSN
  • Netflix3
  • Syfy
  • TMZ
  • TODAY
  • UFC
  • Verizon
  • VEVO
  • Vudu
  • Xfinity TV on Demand
  • YouTube
Comments
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  • Woow.
  • Does that include New Zealand and Australia? .. or just UK
  • Whoo hoo! Finally something for the UK! America always gets all the good collector's editions when europe doesn't get squat. Blessed be this weekend!
  • Nice!
  • Great!
  • @3 It's great that they think outside the US, but still there is more to the world then just the US and the UK :p
  • Great news.
  • Great news for Uk ;-)
  • @2 Been a while since N.Z. and Australia have been classed as part of the UK... Good news for us in the UK though for a change :D
  • Shame not all are available for the countries in Europe. But still a sweet offer.
  • @3 While I agree that America does get some good CE,you will be able to buy one that I sadly cannot. Its the CE of AC3 :(
  • @6 not really.
  • @3 UK gets plenty of CE's we don't get here in the U.S. And you got the Easter sale which I totally wish we got.
  • I'm gold... but don't have sky, Will I be able to watch sky this weekend? :/
  • UK only? Lame. I wish you'd included that in the headline.
  • @13 But Americans got the good collector's edition for Assassin's Creed: Revelations at Gamestop.
  • I'm soon to run out of gold so this news is good!
  • Wow all the free to watch stuff on the internet is now free to watch on live, for this weekend only. Amazing stuff.
  • Now when they say UK, is this like Belgium too, or don't we get this (again)?
  • @13 But you get Black Friday, we don't get anything even close to that.
  • @19 Well answer yourself this question. Is Belgium in the UK? There's your answer champ.
  • Can we just agree that America have the better advantages than the UK ones? I'm from U.K and I know for a FACT that America get the best of things such as; Release Dates, Game Prices etc... OT: I don't think that releasing the Apps for a weekend would bribe people to buy Gold BUT I reckon if they added that thing where Multiplayer is unlocked for a weekend then that would surely boost up the sales but thats my two cents. /Awaits thumbs-down for no particular reason
  • @22 Yep, i don't see why people complain so much. Microsoft is a company that started on American soil and branched out. obviously they are going to cater to us North Americans most of the time. funny thing is i honestly don't see people complaining when Sony does it with japan. or do they? maybe i'm wrong. anyways it would be nice if they did it for everyone in Europe and not just the UK like they always do....
  • You get nothing new then if your gold.
  • @24 of course not, they already have our money. Also going by what the next few weeks DOTW's are they really dont want gold members spending less than full price on arcade games.
  • @ 23 Why the hell should that matter ? We pay the same price as you do to use their services. We should be treated the same I don't give a shit if they started the company in a box in Africa. Pure arrogance to not try to cater to the WHOLE world when we all pay the same.
  • I didn't say that it mattered, but that's just the way it is. what are you going to try to do about it to change things?
  • you should be able to use them when you have silver membership anyway
  • Does anybody know what the next bunch of apps coming are ? I pretty much only use the sky app,it would be nice to get something else useful.
  • So I guess this means Xbox Live entertainment apps WON'T be unlocked for all this weekend, does it?
  • @20: And to think, we would never have had a Black Friday without the Pilgrims leaving England. At the very least, you all should get some of our great after-Thanksgiving sales! :)
  • Time to make a UK acount.
  • @19 You make Belgians look stupid. I sure hope you're a Walloon.
  • @26 Actually the UK pays more for Gold than almost anywhere else in the world, the US has the cheapest subscription and also gets the most from the service, though we are catching up with things like the TV Catch-Up channels (BBC iPlayer, 4oD ect), but these are things that are free on all other devices, in fact the only thing we get exclusively that isn't free somewhere else is Sky, and we have to pay additional fees for that on top of the Gold Subscriptions.
  • @16 Oh, didn't know we were getting a cool version. Don't play the AC games really. @20 True that...I don't want to wait til then for the Arkham City bundle to be half off though :p
  • Cool.. this makes the silver UK account I made for the Mt. Fuji DLC in SSX even more worth it =D
  • Should just say applications unlocked for silvers tbh i was thinking free tv on xbox O.o then i realised its just all normal apps we got are now available to silver members blah. Well nice one you silver people :) least you all got something to do if you dnt wnna play on any games an juss wnna chillax xD
  • I love it when beggars become choosers. You are getting something for free and still complaining..... Kudos to Microsoft. I'd like to think that if this were successful and they saw an incline in gold subscriptions, they will go region to region.
  • Lol, does this mean the Jones vs Evans fight is free this weekend?....I wish
  • Who cares?
  • i think it's about time these events started being worldwide (marketplace existence permitting) in fact i think it's time to bring an end to region specific anything (that includes you region locked games, you bastard sons of whores), it leads to quite a few trolls, and some bitching amongst the supposed community great that it's not a US only, but still, as others said, there are more countries in the world than just us who speak english be time to load forza up on my other profile and see if turn10 sent me any cars (redeemed VIP pass on wrong account xD - also, might try to cram in some gaming & telly watching, see if i can get the 3 play bonus for that account too)
  • things like lovefilm and netflix that you pay a subscription for should realy be accessable by all, not just gold members
  • none of this crap is better than an actual sky box with 900 channels
  • I would love to have the BBC here in the states. Most if not all the programs aired on the network are better than the crap here.
  • Does North Korea get the apps too??
  • I'm guessing Sweden gets shafted as usual?
  • So all of the free apps are well...free? If ALL of the sky channels are free for the weekend I'll be happy. Already have a netflix and lovefilm account. And twitter and Facebook you don't have to pay for anyway. Therefore makes this irrelevant.
  • Hopefully they unlock it all fully for everybody on those days. I'm one of the unlucky Americans who got fucked over by HBO and ESPN because I have Cablevision, and the aforementioned channels hate Cablevision, so it'll be nice to be able to access the otherwise inaccessible channels, if only for a weekend. Don't mean nothing but a good time.
  • just buy gold and have them all year long : ) with the internet you can buy games from all over the world
  • if bbc were available here, i'd be so for it! love bbca channel ... otherwise, this is ok...
  • where the hell are these apps then its been a week nd nothings available
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