| Kasz216 said: A. It's not download. it's streaming. B.From the article i quoted. "It's fanless and quiet; has HDMI and optical outputs; and is about the size of five CD cases stacked together. Any Netflix disc mailing plan over $9 gets you unlimited streaming of almost 10,000 titles. Unlimited! 10K titles!" What else is there to mention? Why would this sell consoles? Why would someone buy a 360 to pay for gold membership and a netflix membership? When they could just pay a straight $99? i'm not saying people would buy 360 jsut for this. It simply sweetens the deal. It will have extra sales benefits, that is not an issue you can argue. Isn't it more likely this is going to get more current gold members to pay for Netflix? All this is doing for microsoft is making sure people with Gold members keep up with their service. Seeing as how MS already said Netflix is just a "side option" to MS digital downloading... I know that it really seems that way, but MS is doing this for brand recognition. Netflix is pulling a PS3 here. To gain marketshare over Apple TV and Vhudu in large ways. Netflix is doing this to win their format war. There are rumors of a Sony deal too... likely though Sony wanted a cut from Netflix directly since PS3 online is free.sony has it's own system working and they are renting movies themselves with the backing of every major studio. Sony doesn't want to advocate a company that rents out movies cheaper than the studios want them to be rented out. i really hope you don't think that MS of all people is trying to help Netflix, when they are trying to propogate their own direct streaming/downloading. MS is notoriously known for trying to bring down anyone who is against them. And right now, no studio is on friendly terms with netflix. They want studios to lose enough to the point where digital is the only recourse. Like I said MS would be on the ground floor, Netflix wouldn't have sold a box to 14 million of these people, who MS would have first shot at. There are a lot of different factors, and like I said, before we go pointing fingers at everyone, let's find out if this contract is an exclusivity contract, or whether he simply means exclusive by availability. |
