The exclusive year long deal with Microsoft is over and we finally have an XMB option for the PS3 as well as a channel for the Wii. Also coming to the PS3 version of Netflix is 1080p glorious HD and a first: 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound Plus.
This lack of 5.1 audio was one of my biggest gripes with Netflix for those hard hitting action movies. They just lacked the final punch needed to prevent me from buying blu-rays and movies still on DVD. Now that buying decision is even harder with 5.1 streaming audio.
To get the new XMB Netflix app just head on over to the Playstation Network section of the Main Menu and install it from the “What’s New” section. It’s completely re-designed for the PS3, allows searching for Instant Streaming movies, and runs even faster than before. All great things for movie watchers.
The Wii version of Netflix only takes up 49 memory blocks on the unit, so it’s a relatively small download. Nothing to prevent you from downloading that other Nintendo Marketplace download that will collect dust for months on end.
Enjoy the disc-free movie watching kiddos. Now it’s time to come up with a funny way to get rid of those pesky Netflix DVDs they sent out. Hmmmm, maybe some idiot will buy them on Craigslist?
Watch out Gamefly. Blockbuster is on it’s way into the by-mail game rental service nation-wide. It’s following up on a pilot program it dabbled in last year, but now it’s been confirmed that Blockbuster is offering home delivery of video games through its Blockbuster By Mail service nationwide.
You’ll get the games at no additional charge over the standard By Mail subscription fee. Customers can then choose from the Blockbuster catalogue of more than 3,000 games for the Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and Wii. The Blockbuster By Mail memberships usually start around the same price as Netflix ($8.99 per month) and include unlimited rentals of movies, games, and television shows.
Definitely seems like the shaky Blockbuster, who is very close to bankruptcy, is getting into this market to compete with GameFly and Netflix, who have seen significant growth in this sector. For the same price as one subscription of GameFly or Netflix, you’ll be able to rent both games and movies. Netflix is usually around 10 bucks and so is GameFly. That would be around twenty bucks a month to do something like this, or you can just go to Blockbuster and do it for nine dollars.
Sounds like a great deal right? Are you buying?
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Yesterday’s confirmation that the Wii will be getting Netflix streaming via disc this Spring solidified the need for movie watching on your console. But one thing stuck out in my mind as I read the press release — it still can’t play a DVD movie. While Wii games are all DVD format and movie playback is only limited by software, it’s baffling why Nintendo has chosen to not add this feature to their system.
It could be due to non HD output formats of the system. You can get a better DVD player for pennies compared to the cost of the Wii these days, so why would anyone need it? It could also be due to Nintendo being pig-headed about their console and not giving in to criticism. I think from sales figures, it’s obvious that the lack of DVD movie playback isn’t hurting the system. However, Netflix streaming may not bolster sales either. But it still begs the question: why bring Netflix streaming but no DVD movie playback?
I think it’s safe to assume that most people looking for Netflix streaming currently are tech fans who most likely have a better unit for streaming that can provide high definition as well. Unless Nintendo goes balls out promoting this, I have a feeling it’ll fall by the wayside and just be another check off the list of features on the back of the box.
The Xbox 360 has had the Netflix service for over a year. It’s got this streaming shit down. Well, it should. But crashing into the party is the PS3 with it’s disc based application for the online streaming service. You essentially have had a year long relationship with your 360 chick when all of a sudden this new “dreamy” black slim kid shows up in a leather jacket. He comes around like the alter-Fonz (or Micheal Jackson) and says he can do the same tricks you can do in hopes of stealing your girl from you. Jumping a pool full of sharks? Maybe. Are there enough positives in the new dude to warrant using him to see what he can do? Or do you check him out and go with the old standby “one of the guys” for your viewing pleasure? Find out after the jump.
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Hey what up Loot Ninja!? I just got an e-mail today to let me know that the Netflix PS3 disc will be hitting my snail mail box this Friday (November 6th). Wait! That’s tomorrow! Holy crap! For those of you out of the feed, the Netflix service (online streaming) will be making it’s way over to the PS3 this Friday.
I can’t wait to watch a few British TV shows before I get back into Uncharted 2! I’ll have to just insert the Netflix disc in the PS3 to boot into the service like it was a game, but this will give Netflix subscribers access to an extensive library of movies and TV shows for online streaming. It’s essentially the same service used for the Xbox 360, but mark this off the list of something that the SexBox can do that the PS3 can’t.
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As those with an Xbox 360 know, yesterday was their bug summer update. Among other things, this added an improved Netflix streaming client to the service, which you’ll download the first time you start up Netflix after the update. Last night I tested out the new client, and it is a huge improvement over what was there before.
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For most of us gamers out there, updates to the 360 come to us as we awake from our afternoon nap, throw off the loose Cheetos that hang on to our sweatpants, and boot up the console, only to see what looks like an error message. We rub our eyes sleepily to get the goop out and hope to goodness that Xbox Live isn’t down.
Coming soon though is an NXE update that I think everyone will benefit from in some way. I was lucky enough to send in my survey and be selected for the second wave of NXE preview program invites. Over the past week or so I have been able to put the NXE update through its paces (minus the Netflix updates which I don’t have) and will give my impressions so far on the update coming August 11th.
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One of the most unique features included in Microsoft’s NXE Update for the Xbox 360 was the ability to stream movies instantly from Netflix. All you need is an Xbox Live Gold subscription and a Netflix account. It seems the service is quite the hit.
Netflix has announced that over 1 million Xbox 360 users have activated their console to stream videos instantly to their console and they have watched 1.5 billion minutes of programming in the process.
Netflix’s library of about 12,000 instant movies and television series is mostly compiled of older content. Studios have been reluctant to allow their content to be streamed instantly.
I have to admit, I have used the service quite heavily for television series that I previously wouldn’t have watched on network television but the choices are fairly slim. Hopefully Netflix can hash out more deals with studios so we have a better selection in the future.
[Via Reuters U.K.]
Over at Gamerscoreblog there are some new photos of how the Netflix section of the New Xbox Experience will look. All Xbox live gold members that reside in the U.S.A. with a Netflix unlimited subscription of any kind will be able to watch over 12,000 movies from their instant queue for free in NXE. Nothing we really haven’t heard before but it does pose a simple question, will we be able to add movies to our instant queue from our Xbox or do we need to run to the computer to do this? Hopefully everything is streamlined and we are able to do this simple task from the Xbox itself but from the looks of things it just doesn’t seem like that is likely.
We would appreciate more information than this but at least we have photos, right guys?
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