One million Xbox 360 users tap Netflix
While I'm both an Xbox 360 gamer and a Netflix user, I still haven't signed up for Netflix on my Xbox.
That's the unpopular stand, it seems, as Microsoft and the video rental site on Thursday announced that more than 1 million Xbox users have downloaded and activated the movie service since it was introduced on the game console in November of last year. That translates to more than 13,000 users a day.
Not only that, but members using the service have watched more than 1.5 billion minutes of streaming video.
But so far it's just movies and TV shows. It would seem the logical next step would be for the service to offer games for rent on-demand. This would be good for Netflix, but we're not sure Xbox would be on board do to the loss of licensing revenue it makes from game purchases. However, if some income sharing deal falls into place it could happen.
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. E-mail Matt. 
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.
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.
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
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.
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Robert
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.
"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."
- by junadlao February 6, 2009 11:23 AM PST
- Don't they have a sort of Chief Editor in these technology blog sites??!
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(20 Comments)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.