DISQUS

Jake Ludington · 1 year ago

I'm guessing that most of the people screaming for Netflix on Xbox 360 haven't realized they can already watch Amazon Unbox videos. No there aren't as many titles as Netflix yet, but the world's largest seller of DVDs is certainly not going to hold back in acquiring every title they can add to their rental library.

Bob Caswell · 1 year ago

Hi Jake,

Two issues: 1) Though it could be worse, the "first you need to configure this and that" setup you describe is way too complicated for plenty outside the tech crowd and just isn't nearly as convenient as the way Netflix would automatically work via Xbox Live.

And 2) The Netflix subscription model is something not available via Amazon Unbox. Part of the reason people love Netflix so much is because they don't have to pay what feels like an exuberant fee per movie.

Paul Ellis · 1 year ago

If this can happen, it would be a win-win for Microsoft and Netflix. I'm sure a lot of Netflix users would lean heavily toward an Xbox 360. There are two problems though. First one is probably that Microsoft is concerned that Netflix's offering will compete with its own. This is probably overblown though since there is little/no overlap between the content offered by Netflix and Xbox Live. Second, Netflix may be limited by the content providers in how they can distribute the video they have licensed, which would require a new agreement. I'm guessing that it is problem #2 that is proving to be the most difficult to overcome.

dmoseder · 1 year ago

Netflix may also be coming to the Playstation 3.

Paul Ellis · 1 year ago

I've seen the reports about the survey that Netflix was doing that asked about the Xbox 360 and the PS3. I'd bet money that the Xbox 360 is going to be the first gaming platform to support Netflix for one reason though. Netflix uses Microsoft's DRM platform, and the Xbox 360 supports it already. It would/will be a lot more development work to implement Microsoft's DRM stack on the PS3.

Racing School · 11 months ago

This is just some hoax like Big Foot. I'm disappointed a big company would even do that as I suspect it's an insider job. Do you remember the last time this viral email going around saying Bill Gates is going to pay every single person money if they forwarded an email? Sounds like Dejavu.

SEO · 8 months ago

Netflix on the Xbox 360 is little confusing and seems to be very problematic..