Comments on: One million Xbox 360 users tap Netflix

In less than three months, Netflix has streamed over 1.5 billion minutes of content to Xbox users.

[user256]

Matt, for some time now Sony movies have been available to watch instantly on the 360, and Netflix has never offered video game rentals.

[forever4now]

Ultimately, ALL media (movies, music, games, books, etc.) will be available through online media stores/websites. The associated industries need to push toward open standards, so that this media will work on any software platform (Windows, Linux, OS X, etc.) and any hardware platform (PC, game console, set-top box, TV, smartphone, etc.)...albeit with different performance characteristics. This would greatly simplify the production, distribution and usage of the media.

[bullet25]

i belive this will happen also but the only problem is everyone connection speed, some people still have dial up.

[newsjeff]

As a Sony PS3 owner, I hope Netflix will consider adding the PS3 for playing the movies.

[NPGMBR]

Its not up to Netflix. Look to Sony to solve that problem!

[ibeetle]

What is wrong with watching thousands of movies and television programs stremed through the Playstation 3 with Hulu, Joost and YouTube?

You get about the same full screen quality as XBox/Netflix movies and you do not have to pay $50 a year for a XBox Live account.

[ibeetle]

@NPGMBR

Sony is not likely to "solve" that problem anytime soon. Reed Hastings, Netflix founder and CEO is holds a seat on Microsofts board. Microsoft purchased, purely for investment reasons 1% of Netflix stocks. Netflix streaming service uses Microsoft Silverlight. Microsoft is almost certainly not going to license Silverlight to Sony anytime soon.

[soutrik93]

Netflix also rents video games? sony movies are blocked?
something tells me you had never heard of a) Xbox 360 or b) Netflix before writing this article
you have 3 paragraphs in this article, 2 of them are completely incorrent
do some research next time

[count011]

Writer's commentary lacks research and depth of knowledge. Everyone please comment on how full of misinformation this article is and how much it should not be displayed on my Google news front page.

[jhebert121]

This writer has no idea what he is talking about refering to netflix as a video game seller and netflix via xbox 360 never offering sony studio titles. Matt you might want to look at editing this article to retain any integrity you currently have as a freelance writer.

[bullet25]

OK i am a Netflix user, gamefly user, and xbox 360 user and after reading this i look on netflix to see if I was missing something, i am not Netflix DOES NOT rent video games and i don't know where you even got that idea. gamefly rents video games and PSP UMD movies, ONLY PSP UMD movies. so if you are a Netflix users you better check what site you are actually using or stop spreading BS before posting. ALSO why would you not activate the xbox 360 streaming for netflix? unless you do not have Xbox Live Gold you should it only take 3mbs off your hard drive its not even a big deal. ALSO i have watched Sony movies on my XBOX 360 with netflix so please do research first. for all reason at least go the netflix.com even if you are not a user and see that they do NOT rent video games. ALSO last thing they does the "Netflix on my xbox" link take me to a search and not a post?

[ibeetle]

From a marketing stand point I have always found it funny how some things resonate with consumers and yet similar services flounder or completely ignored.
Amazon offers unBox video streaming through TiVO and it flounders. Netflix offers an identical service and it considered a innovation.
Sony offers the ability to stream thousands of movies and television programs through its browser with Hulu, Joost and YouTube with similar picture quality of Netflix/XBox; even for free and yet even many PS3 owners are wondering when they can stream Netflix movies and/or completely unaware that they can stream video content from the web.

[hafenbrack]

add to that the ability to browse there movie and tv collection on the PLayStation store as well.

[Akiba]

From a marketing standpoint? That should be easiest part to understand. X-Box Live and Netflix has done a better of marketing itself in regards to the online multimedia experience than Sony and Amazon. Most consumers haven't even heard of unBox and don't know that Amazon offers such a service. When it comes to X-Box and Netflix it's the total opposite. Marketing is a big reason for that, but there's also the fact that many of these are existing Netflix customers who were just given a more convenient way to use the service. Not only was this backed by better marketing and an existing hegemony, but the service and the interface are considered superior by many. You can enjoy the experience with Sony but it was not tied to together as well and it was not the highlight of their marketing strategy.

[Heebee Jeebies]

If you want Netflix and Hulu on your PlayStation 3 try the $40 server program called Play On. I have been using it for a month new and have been very happy with it. I was able to stop using my Roku thanks to this little program. You are going to need a wired connection and a good computer to get the streaming working smoothly but a Duo Core system with 512MB of RAM will do it. Who doesn't have that this day and age.

http://www.themediamall.com/playon

Robert

[lang0502]

Are you getting Netflix mixed up with GameFly?

On-demand video game rentals? Are you insane? This doesn't even make sense. Loss of licensing revenue? It's not like Xbox titles can be ripped from a DVD and uploaded to the Internet for download. I think you have no concept of technology. I bet you think that Netflix just rips copies of DVDs and uploads them on the Internet for streaming. This content is coming from the actual movie studios, that's how this type of thing works. The studios get paid each time you watch a streaming video. Netflix is currently swallowing the cost of the rental fee in it's subscription model and hoping you don't watch "too much" streaming content that they take a loss on you.

[bullet25]

good point games in all likeliness cant be streamed. it would have to be a digital download to own.

[mgarc1125]

This article was either written in the past when Sony Pictures was still blocking Netflix streaming or it was written in the future when Netflix offers video game rentals. Either way, none of those are true in the present.

[spacydog]

It's time for this author to quit his day job with all the misinformation in the article.

"With more than 15 years experience testing hardware (and being obsessed with it), Crave freelance writer Matt Hickey can tell the good gadgets from the great. He also has a keen eye for future technology trends. Matt has blogged for publications including TechCrunch, CrunchGear, and most recently, Gizmodo."

[junadlao]

Don't they have a sort of Chief Editor in these technology blog sites??!

Such an obviously misinformed "freelance technology writer" should be limited to writing articles that he actually is knowledgable of. If he is at all knowledgable of any field.

Netflix offering video games???

Sony movies being blocked???

Nowadays, they have what they call the internet where you can do something they call "google" and quickly find out what the facts are from me BS.