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selnor on 21 August 2008
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Euphoria14 said:
selnor said:
Euphoria14 said:

I see people talking about Bluray being nullified because of the Netflix agreement.

Do any of these people even have a Netflix account?

People are saying they are constantly adding HD movies. Yes, they are, but only Bluray. Instant view movies are SD only, no HD option for viewing. I use the instant view feature sometimes. I hear people saying "download" as well, the movies are streamed.


Also 10,000 movies, yes. Have you seen the selection as I have? Majority of it is B rated movies or old classic films. New releases are not added and the newest selection that I have seen in the last few days that is not a B rated low budget Zombie flick is from 2005-2006.

Looking for high budget top notch films? You won't find them anywhere on Netflix instant view.

Take this from a 2 year subscriber.

 

You obviously missed the E3 announcement where they said that Netflix in particular for Live are releasing the HD films as quick as possible. And on Live they are instant downloads. Are you aware that MS have paid money to them to have the latest films available straight away? How do you think they make money if everything is free for Live gold users? In the demo they showed the titles of films like The Bourne Ultimatum, Hitman and Pirates of The Caribean. Also my latest 360 mag have actually had the privelege of watching Pirates of The carribean 3 in 1080p downloaded from Netflix via Live and said that on their Toshiba 50" there was no noticeable difference from any BLU RAY FILM quality.

 

It is not free for Gold Users.

You have to pay the Netflix account subscription along with the Gold Live subscription.

You still fail to understand that there is no possible way you are getting unlimited downloads for just the $10 netflix subscription price.

If so, netflix would seriously piss off their current userbase. Why do we pay $10-20 for unlimited downloads of trash at SD settings and XBox users supposedly get unlimited downloads of new released HD movies?

Wouldn't this also make the XBox live movie marketplace useless too?

Download Pirates for $6.00 in HD or pay $10 and watch Pirates, Hitman, etc... all in on night, in one sitting, then watch 4 more movies the next day, all new releases, all day all night.

Something is wrong here. I don't think it is as you say it is.

If you get those downloads, they will without a doubt have some charge to it.

 

I think I'm being misunderstood. Yes you have to pay for an unlimited Netflix subscription which I believe is at lowest now $8.99/month. However the comment about free at the press conference for Live gold users was aimed at the HD films. This is where some deal between them comes in. The point of still supplying films on Live with single prices is obviously for those who dont want to pay monthly. What ever the cost it saves me thousands of pounds not buying BLU RAY films at £20 a time here in the UK.

 

To those who mention quality issues. It is not noticable to the average user. Jeez.

And yes even on pc streaming netflix you can watch as many as you want with no hourly limit like there used to be.