Netflix Coming to Xbox Live in “Late Fall”
by Jonathan Zungre on September 22, 2008 at 3:53 pm
I’ve been biting my nails, waiting and wondering when the deal announced at E3 between Netflix and Microsoft’s Xbox Live is actually going to start. Well in the the “New-Instantly on your TV” tab on the Netflix website there’s a little picture of an Xbox 360 that says, “Beginning late fall 2008.” What’s late fall mean? My guess is November, since December has GOT to be a winter month (it has Christmas in it.)
Some other details straight from the source may surprise you. The good is there’s no limit to how many instantly watchable movies you can view in a month and all you need is an internet connection, the 9 dollar, “1 rental at a time” Netflix membership, and an Xbox Live membership.
The bad is that that Xbox Live membership must be Gold and you can’t instantly watch every movie in Netflix’s 100,000 title library. The instantly selectable Library’s more around 12,000 deep, but I did see some good stuff in there, such as The Office and Dexter. And, listen, I did the math and at 2 hours a dvd you have enough instant movies to last you 3 years if you did nothing but watch movies and not sleep.
If you’re reading this and you don’t own an Xbox 360 (for shame!) you can pick up the The LG BD300 Network Blu-ray Disc Player (Available fall 2008) and the little, cutesy Netflix player by Roku which retails for 100 bucks.
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on September 22, 2008 5:08 pm
Ironic, it is the only thing that even remotely interests me about the 360 update. I wonder if the quality will look good on a 100″ screen?
on September 22, 2008 5:26 pm
i don’t know madpuppy. i’m really excited to start streaming like a son of a gun, but nothing’s in HD at this point, so it may look a little grainy, even on my 46 incher. way to score a 100 inch tv. that must be quite a set up.
on September 22, 2008 6:16 pm
It is a projector in my theater room. fun stuff.
on September 22, 2008 7:25 pm
It’ll probably look like a DVD movie.
on September 23, 2008 5:57 am
I’m pretty sure someone said it would be similar to the streaming quality you get off of netflix right now, on your computer. Which probally isn’t HD at all and perhaps not even DVD.