Xbox LIVE may be temporarily down for the day, but things couldn’t be better for the service. With people fawning over the mysterious Fall Update and wondering if they’d get to actually play back their DivX movies on the console, OXM got an earful from the Microsoft folks about the already-long-overdue update.

According to CVG (which got the news through OXM), the Fall Update will be rolled out on December 4, with the Films-On-Demand rental service becoming available soon after. Costing less than $5 for a single rental, the movie will be available in 720p resolutions. Once downloaded, you have two weeks to start watching it, and once you do, you’ve got 24 hours to finish it, after which it conveniently deletes itself from the hard drive. What would make this a killer app is if such a delivery system was used to serve Xbox 360 game rentals securely to our hard drives. Aah, the blissful joys of never having to go out and see the sun!

But the best part about the update? You can buy, download and play Xbox titles on your 360 via Marketplace. While the service will start by offering Halo, Fable, Fahrenheit, Crimson Skies: Road to Revenge, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex and Burnout 3: Takedown, more titles will be added to the service, with each game costing about 1200 Microsoft Points. Frankly, I can’t wait to see Psychonauts and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time added to the list.

We’re not sure if this service will also be rolled out over here, but considering we’ve never had the Xbox officially available in India, it’d be a great way to get local gamers to boogie down with some of the great titles on dear departed Xbox. We’re gonna shoot off a mail straight to Microsoft India about this one and try to get more out of the horse’s mouth. Keep watching this space for updates!

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