Video Walkthrough of Xbox 360’s Netflix Support
By Chris on Monday, July 21st, 2008 at 3:11 PM PST In Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Gamer Life, Microsoft, Microsoft
Netflix and Microsoft teaming up to offer streaming movies through the Xbox 360 never struck me as this mind-blowing idea that I couldn’t wait for. And even when it was first being announced at Microsoft’s E3 press conference last week, I was glad that I’d now be able to stream movies directly to my TV, but it still didn’t blow me away.
But with support to invite your Live friends into a party to watch movies (and it certainly sounds like they won’t need to have Netflix subscriptions), this could be tremendously awesome. Friends of mine that are off at college and can’t pay for Netflix or the cable bill, we can now watch movies together. It’s not the kind of feature that is going to sell Xbox 360 systems, but it’s definitely one of my most anticipated features in the new Xbox experience.
I expect the ‘invite a friend’ thing will require that the friend have a Netflix account. Otherwise you’re treading on pretty thin ice with respect to the ‘no public showing’ clause at the beginning of each movie.
Even so Spiral…this does seem pretty neato. I might be forced to sign up for Netflix.
But a party can only consist of 8 people, so this would hardly be a public showing. I see where you’re coming from, though.
It will matter when HD content is available via Netflix. Not so much right now.