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Sounds like rebranded laziness to get it rolled out on time. ]]>Aug 5th 2009 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 6th 2009 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/
It's like editing a document on Windows Phones, you have the software and tools.

But don't you want the proper keyboard and mouse to do the job instead of using the keypad or touch screen?]]>Aug 5th 2009 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/
Kinda like how it's better to get punched in the gut, than punched in the the face. ]]>Aug 5th 2009 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/I DONT CLAIM TO BE A JEANUS BUT WHY CANT WE HAS BOFF ? TOP FIDDY AND SEARCH ? uhhh HELLLLLLLOOOOOOO.]]>Aug 5th 2009 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/
Both hopelessly out of touch with what people really want...and don't want.]]>Aug 15th 2009 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/
that said I think its a good system.... I dont want to scroll through thousands of movies one at a time. I do want a real search though but hate how the current alphabetical organization works for the other movies. I DO NOT want that brought to netflix. Give me a real search.]]>Aug 5th 2009 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/
well, you got to love his nervous excuse...]]>Aug 5th 2009 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/
I think when people come to Xbox they're not really looking so much for functional....

Oh so that explains the RROD!

...they want to be wowed

As in wow this PoS doesn't work like they said it would?

I'm a proud 360 owner but Ben Smith should be taken out back of Redmond and beaten with reeds for saying something so incredibly stupid.
Users don't want functionality? Fuck you guy.]]>Aug 5th 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/
If you don't like our way, you're doing it wrong.]]>Aug 5th 2009 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Amazing what you get exposed to with unlimited streaming!]]>Aug 5th 2009 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/
p.s. i DO NOT want ads, so quit that horse ASAP]]>Aug 5th 2009 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/
this is their pattern though, get it wrong, slightly fix it, slightly fix it some more, some more fixing, get it right.]]>Aug 5th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/
The interface is exactly the same on all those other platforms and the Roku box is their official product! So you're complaining that the 360 is not getting even more functionality than it currently has over every other platform the NFLX players is on? Holy shit you can't even watch HD at the NFLX site itself, just be glad it actually works on the 360 at all.

And as I've said before, the content is so limited that adding a comprehensive text search tool would be pointless and a waste of typing. 90% of movies you would search for would not be available. You can flip through almost the entire catalog faster than it takes to type and wait for a result to not show up.]]>Aug 5th 2009 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/
Note: I neither own a 360 nor have access to Netflix.]]>Aug 5th 2009 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/
I suspect they'll continue improving the system anyway. I'm happy with what they're doing so far, but yes it can be improved. At least now we can browse the top 100 vids for a particular category, and not have to go onto a computer/mobile device to add an item to our Play Now queue.]]>Aug 5th 2009 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/
Also, consider that it may have been a question of "browse top 50 by categories *or* add search functionality", resources are limited and code takes time to write. Search may be coming later for all anybody knows, but maybe the decision (which might have even been made with the use of a focus group, we don't know) was made to prioritize browse over search as that was more compelling for the target audience.

All this internet outrage seems super overblown. Damned if you do, damned if you don't I imagine. I'm sure if search was added people would just find something new to kvetch about. :)]]>Aug 5th 2009 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/...season 3 is awesome as well. Apparently there's a Christmas special coming, followed by a season 4 next spring. The episodes in S3 with the "electric sex pants" and "friendface" (facebook spoof) were top shelf.]]>Aug 5th 2009 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/
"I think when people come to Xbox they're not really looking so much for functional, they really want to have fun, they want to be wowed."

The quickest way to WOW me is with something dysfunctional, I guess?]]>Aug 5th 2009 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/ VOWED

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]]>Aug 5th 2009 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/
Yep, that's pretty much it.]]>Aug 5th 2009 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/
There is just to search function. ]]>Aug 5th 2009 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/upcoming-netflix-update-on-xbox-360-is-still-gimped-microsoft/Aug 5th 2009 9:56AM