I must be uninformed, I haven't heard anything about Netflix coming to 360. However I would doubt that Microsoft would put Netflix on the 360 because it has it's own movie rental service. Why would it allow competition on it's system? I wish there would be competition for more options, but that's not how corporations work.
I thought you could access Netflix through Windows Media Center, which you can connect to with a 360? At least I saw this on a video game forum, maybe it wasn't official.
* We are working to get TV manufacturers, Blu-ray player manufacturers, and game console manufacturers to make their devices ready for instant streaming from Netflix. The first of these multi-function Netflix ready devices are likely to be available in late 2008. * The $99.99 single-function Netflix ready device from Roku, which is available now, is likely to be the lowest cost Netflix ready device for the foreseeable future."
1) You can already view Netflix on a 360. Google "vmcNetflix" - it's a new Vista Media Center plugin that allows you to view Netflix titles and supports MC extenders (such as the 360).
2) For those without MC, there have been strong rumors of 360 and PS3 native support for a while ever since Netflix conducted a survey that asked if people would be interested in it for those two consoles. Netflix recently stated that Instant Viewing would be available from 3 partners besides LG. Two giant companies and one lesser-known company. Roku is obviously the lesser-known one. Microsoft and Sony could very well be the two big ones.
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so does this mean there is no hope of this service coming to 360?
I must be uninformed, I haven't heard anything about Netflix coming to 360. However I would doubt that Microsoft would put Netflix on the 360 because it has it's own movie rental service. Why would it allow competition on it's system? I wish there would be competition for more options, but that's not how corporations work.
I thought you could access Netflix through Windows Media Center, which you can connect to with a 360? At least I saw this on a video game forum, maybe it wasn't official.
from the Netflix site:
"Future Netflix Ready Devices
* We are working to get TV manufacturers, Blu-ray player manufacturers, and game console manufacturers to make their devices ready for instant streaming from Netflix. The first of these multi-function Netflix ready devices are likely to be available in late 2008.
* The $99.99 single-function Netflix ready device from Roku, which is available now, is likely to be the lowest cost Netflix ready device for the foreseeable future."
Two things:
1) You can already view Netflix on a 360. Google "vmcNetflix" - it's a new Vista Media Center plugin that allows you to view Netflix titles and supports MC extenders (such as the 360).
2) For those without MC, there have been strong rumors of 360 and PS3 native support for a while ever since Netflix conducted a survey that asked if people would be interested in it for those two consoles. Netflix recently stated that Instant Viewing would be available from 3 partners besides LG. Two giant companies and one lesser-known company. Roku is obviously the lesser-known one. Microsoft and Sony could very well be the two big ones.