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Mistershine on 25 July 2008

How do you think it will work if you tried to invite me in the UK?



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Dodece on 25 July 2008

Unlimited is correct it used to be in correlation to the dollar value of your subscription. I am sure it is in my email somewhere when they altered the plan. Perhaps when they altered the subscription rates here is the applicable passage from Netflix.

Included in your membership

Instant watching is included with all Netflix plans.

Your current 3 at-a-time (Unlimited) plan provides unlimited hours for watching instantly. You can watch as many hours as you like, and there's no additional charge for watching.

Your DVD plan is unchanged. Watching movies instantly online will not affect the number of DVDs you can receive or how quickly you can exchange discs.



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yungmagic09 on 25 July 2008

Seems interesting



Dodece on 25 July 2008

@Mistershine

Until Microsoft of Netflix share more details about any restrictions I would have no clue whether the service will be region locked.



http://live.xbox.com/member/Dodece

BenKenobi88 on 25 July 2008

If I remember correctly, Netflix's streaming selection kinda sucks though.



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mrstickball on 25 July 2008

I am sure, however, that Netflix movies will be integrated with the current XBL library of movies. Might not be very robust, but better than what is currently offered on either.



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DMeisterJ on 25 July 2008
Dodece said:

For those unaware of the Netflix offer through the 360 here is the simple synopsis. All you need is a 360, a gold account, and a netflix membership to stream Netflix movies through your console. Netflix subscribers can then invite seven friends into a party to watch the movie with them on their consoles. Those watching do not even need to be Netflix subscribers.

I am interested in hosting some anime marathons with my Netflix membership. I have a fifteen dollar subscription that entitles me to fifteen hours of streaming entertainment. I am also usually off on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the week. So I can basically have two or three marathons during the month. I am curious if anyone on these forums would be interested. Obviously you need a 360 and gold.

Anyother Netflix subscribers who think they might be interested in doing something similar by all means list your genre, plan, and times you are probably going to be available. Perhaps when the fall update gets close we could get a stickied movie thread going. Where members can announce their own movie times, and so forth.

I could have sworn you had to be an XBL gold Member and a Netflix member to be in someone's Movie Party. 

:/

 



yungmagic09 on 25 July 2008
DMeisterJ said:
Dodece said:

For those unaware of the Netflix offer through the 360 here is the simple synopsis. All you need is a 360, a gold account, and a netflix membership to stream Netflix movies through your console. Netflix subscribers can then invite seven friends into a party to watch the movie with them on their consoles. Those watching do not even need to be Netflix subscribers.

I am interested in hosting some anime marathons with my Netflix membership. I have a fifteen dollar subscription that entitles me to fifteen hours of streaming entertainment. I am also usually off on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the week. So I can basically have two or three marathons during the month. I am curious if anyone on these forums would be interested. Obviously you need a 360 and gold.

Anyother Netflix subscribers who think they might be interested in doing something similar by all means list your genre, plan, and times you are probably going to be available. Perhaps when the fall update gets close we could get a stickied movie thread going. Where members can announce their own movie times, and so forth.

I could have sworn you had to be an XBL gold Member and a Netflix member to be in someone's Movie Party. 

:/

 

Yeah I thought I heard that somewhere too.

 



JaggedSac on 25 July 2008
yungmagic09 said:
DMeisterJ said:
Dodece said:

For those unaware of the Netflix offer through the 360 here is the simple synopsis. All you need is a 360, a gold account, and a netflix membership to stream Netflix movies through your console. Netflix subscribers can then invite seven friends into a party to watch the movie with them on their consoles. Those watching do not even need to be Netflix subscribers.

I am interested in hosting some anime marathons with my Netflix membership. I have a fifteen dollar subscription that entitles me to fifteen hours of streaming entertainment. I am also usually off on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the week. So I can basically have two or three marathons during the month. I am curious if anyone on these forums would be interested. Obviously you need a 360 and gold.

Anyother Netflix subscribers who think they might be interested in doing something similar by all means list your genre, plan, and times you are probably going to be available. Perhaps when the fall update gets close we could get a stickied movie thread going. Where members can announce their own movie times, and so forth.

I could have sworn you had to be an XBL gold Member and a Netflix member to be in someone's Movie Party. 

:/

 

Yeah I thought I heard that somewhere too.

 

I do not believe they have said either way, but it probably is as you say.  Just another way for them to try and get more subscribers.

 



sinha on 25 July 2008
Dodece said:

For those unaware of the Netflix offer through the 360 here is the simple synopsis. All you need is a 360, a gold account, and a netflix membership to stream Netflix movies through your console. Netflix subscribers can then invite seven friends into a party to watch the movie with them on their consoles. Those watching do not even need to be Netflix subscribers.

 

 

I'm pretty sure that is incorrect.  Netflix wants everyone on Xbox Live to subscribe to their service, not just every 1 out of 8.

 



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