Xbox Live has changed the way that people use this games console forever. No longer do you just sit and home and play your computer games. X Box Live lets you play the same games with people from anywhere in the world, making everything much more fun and interactive.
Within the Xbox Live menu is the Xbox Live Marketplace. In a similar way to iTunes shop lets you download music online; the Xbox Live Marketplace lets you buy Xbox add-ons online direct to your machine.
The actual marketplace is available to anyone with a broadband connection. What you'll actually need to do is sign up to a username and password, to keep track of your account.
There is a massive range of items that you can buy from this marketplace include premium content for games. There are also free downloads such as music videos and movie adverts.
On top of this there is premium content that you can download in exchange for Xbox Live points. These let you redeem your point anything ranging from extra gaming photos, full games and will even let you rent movies.
There are different ways that you can get hold of these points although the best way is to buy them online. There are specialist Xbox websites online that have these points to sell. It works just by a voucher code system. Once you have made your purchase, they will email you back your code & you put this into your account on the Xbox Live account. That's it, you can get deciding on what Xbox Live content you want to download first.
Of course the content that you download is up to you and will vary from person to person. Some downloads are permanent and some will be temporary, so have a read before you actually purchase so you know exactly what is what.
Don't worry though because new Xbox Live point cards/vouchers are always available so if you find that you have spent all your points and there is still something that you want then you can simply purchase more points and start all over again it really is that easy.