Headlines - Xbox 360 Netflix streaming: £40 for live or £100 for Premium?

[HEXUS]

One of Microsoft's big E3 announcements was that of its partnership with Netflix, but did you know you could stream movies already?

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[Steve B]

Samantha Rose is a douche.
"Yep, i've been doing that for ages, if I do this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this"

[pauldarkside]

Not sure why the article is using figures in Pound Sterling when Netflix is a US orientated service.

[Deadlight]

even MS says it's not for Europe, so what's with this 'global audience' bit, eh?

[beanbandit]

Not sure why the article is using figures in Pound Sterling when Netflix is a US orientated service.

Still not sure why the article is even there, let alone pound sterling being mentioned. Reminds me of all the NewEgg adverts that used to be here.

[pauldarkside]

Still not sure why the article is even there, let alone pound sterling being mentioned. Reminds me of all the NewEgg adverts that used to be here.

I can understand the article being here - Hexus isn't solely for UK news.

[Steven W]

even MS says it's not for Europe, so what's with this 'global audience' bit, eh?

Fair do's!Hands up.

[gdguide]

Why do people continually list the cost of Live and not look longer than 1 year? Live subscription fees in a few years will go beyond what you're talking about for the cost of Vista P, and even then, most PCs that I see are coming with Vista P. You're acting like people are just upgrading their OS, when in fact since most people upgrade their PCs every 3 years or so, they will be getting Vista premium for free.

Also look at the article at the bottom. There are other ways to stream besides using Vista P. The article writed just happened to mention the most recent OS being used.

More thought needs to be put into these articles. Expect to spend £160 on Live fees, and how hard would it have been to include this service into the Silver program, especially considering Netflix is hosting everything?

[Steven W]

Why do people continually list the cost of Live and not look longer than 1 year? Live subscription fees in a few years will go beyond what you're talking about for the cost of Vista P, and even then, most PCs that I see are coming with Vista P. You're acting like people are just upgrading their OS, when in fact since most people upgrade their PCs every 3 years or so, they will be getting Vista premium for free.

Also look at the article at the bottom. There are other ways to stream besides using Vista P. The article writed just happened to mention the most recent OS being used.

More thought needs to be put into these articles. Expect to spend £160 on Live fees, and how hard would it have been to include this service into the Silver program, especially considering Netflix is hosting everything?

Good point, thanks for the input.

Article updated as well with further opinion

[vdbswong]

I don't get what people are "complaining" about as such with this addition of netflix etc.

It's not as if people are going to go out of their way to buy a 360 and £40 live subscription JUST to stream movies via the console to their TV.

I mean first and foremost Xbox Live is a gaming service and i consider Netflix to be say a bonus rather than a core feature as such =/.

[Jordan88]

Did they announce anything for Europe? or is it just the US again.

[beanbandit]

I don't get what people are "complaining" about as such with this addition of netflix etc.

It's not as if people are going to go out of their way to buy a 360 and £40 live subscription JUST to stream movies via the console to their TV.

I mean first and foremost Xbox Live is a gaming service and i consider Netflix to be say a bonus rather than a core feature as such =/.

Because Netflix is US only, and has no use to anyone outside of that region.

Did they announce anything for Europe? or is it just the US again.

Nothing announced for Europe, if they do actually do something for Europe, expect to see it in 6-12 months time.