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watching netflix on xbox 360

Watch Netflix Downloads On Your Xbox 360

By installing the vmcNetflix plug-in to a Vista Premium Media Center computer, you can watch streamed Netflix content on an Xbox 360. It's buggy, but it's a lot better than watching Netflix on a laptop screen. (Providing you have Netflix, an Xbox 360 and a Vista Media Center.) Maybe Netflix should open up streaming to lots of devices, not just windows PCs as of today. I know Mac support is coming, but combining wide support for their online services with disc delivery, it could be a pretty sweet hybrid of the old and new. Video demo post jump. [vmcNetflix via Hacking Netflix and Thomas Hawk, thanks Mike] More »

6:19 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Brian Lam
7,670 views, 21 comments

Latest by MikeH: I'll totally switch from Blockbuster to Netflix when this is working smoothly. more »

home entertainment

Netflix Working With Three Secret Hardware Partners: No Names, Just Hints

We already know that Netflix has partnered up with LG, but a recent conference quarterly call has revealed that there are three other players in the mix:
At this point, I can tell you we have LG plus three additional partners actively working on integrating our technology into their products. Three of the four partners are major companies which each sell millions of devices per year and will enable the Netflix functionality in some of those devices likely in Q4 of this year. The fourth partner is a small company with which — which will likely launch sooner than Q4.
So which companies could they be talking about? More »

1:59 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Sean Fallon
6,968 views, 43 comments

Latest by vikingrawk: You know, it's only a matter of time before DVDs are phased out completely, and people will just pay for access. I personally enjoy owning DVD movies, but I recognize that you can't stop a waterfall. more »

netflix

Netflix to Jack Up Prices For Blu-ray Renters

What's the best way to punish the same early adopter customers that helped make your service a success in the first place? If you're Netflix, it's charging them extra for renting Blu-ray. CEO Reed Hastings justifies this action by saying "consumers are used to paying more for high-definition," basically punching this next generation of early adopters in the nads for doing what they love to do. More »

8:15 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Jason Chen
23,470 views, 79 comments

bluray

Blockbuster Gets With the Program, Rolls Out Blu-Ray Nationwide

So, here's the thing. In February, HD-DVD breathed its last. In March, Netflix announced that it was quadrupling its Blu-ray selection. And now! Mid April! Blockbuster announces it is rolling out Blu-ray throughout its 4,000 stores in the US, as well as over the border in Canada, after a successful trial run in 1,700 of its outlets. *clapclapclapclapclap* [Blockbuster via Home Theater]

10:15 AM on Sun Apr 13 2008
By Addy Dugdale
2,594 views, 17 comments

crime

Motion-Sensing Camera Catches Netflix Thief Red-Handed, Shirtless

Brian Krische and his roommate had a lot of their Netflix discs go missing before they received them, and they grew suspicious. So, like any self-respecting and enterprising geeks, they set up a motion-sensing camera pointed at their mailbox. The results? One chubby, shirtless criminal caught red-handed. More »

11:25 AM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Adam Frucci
78,633 views, 108 comments

Latest by dasnake: either its me or he looks like the fattest freaking Napoleon Dynamite ever! that or one of my freinds! more »

netflix

Netflix Doling Out 5 Percent Credit for Massive Monday Outage

If your popcorn got cold waiting for No Country for Old Men from Netflix thanks to that 11-hour flame-out on Monday, they're going to give you a nice little five percent credit to make up for it. [Hacking Netflix]

12:29 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By matt buchanan
3,272 views, 20 comments

home entertainment

Netflix Movie Streaming on Xbox 360 Actually Coming Soon?

The rumor about Netflix surveying the scene, prepping a possible streaming movie solution to Xbox 360 and PS3 seems to be on the verge of coming true, according to Netflix themselves. They just released a statement that says they've surveyed subscribers to see how interested they were in streaming movies over Xbox 360 (PS3 was not mentioned), but didn't say whether a partnership was coming between them and Microsoft. More »

1:00 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Jason Chen
8,449 views, 59 comments

Latest by kevinay: @Vagabum: actually, didn't the new 360 have HDMI output in Arcade and Premium? (well, at least in Asia they do) :D more »

blu-ray

Netflix Quadrupling Blu-ray Selection, Possibly Increasing Prices

Good news for Blu-ray-adopting Netflix subscribers: the movies-by-mail service is quadrupling its Blu-ray library, increasing the number of titles from 400 to 1,500. Bad news for Netflix subscribers: this'll probably jack up the price. More »

1:10 PM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Adam Frucci
7,742 views, 32 comments

question of the day

Question of the Day: How Do You Get Your Movies?

The recent Apple TV 2.0 update got me thinking about the myriad of ways that consumers can get movies in their home these days. There are numerous companies out there vying for your entertainment dollar in both brick and mortar stores and online. So our question to you is: how do you get movies at home? More »

7:30 PM on Wed Feb 13 2008
By Sean Fallon
23,060 views, 116 comments

Latest by OneObuyan: DVDEmpire without doubt the Largest Collection of contemporary & classical in a variety of formats and edition releases, its the easiest to search, by any genre , or recordings, DTS-THX-etc... you name it they have it. more »

streaming movies

Netflix Movie Streaming Coming to Xbox 360 and PS3?

Although surveys can pretty much ask anything (would you like to see George Wendt eating beans in a movie?), this survey from Netflix that asks whether you'd like to stream Netflix movies to your Xbox 360 seems pretty plausible to us. Here's why. More »

2:50 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Jason Chen
15,748 views, 66 comments

hd dvd

HD DVD, Is This Really All You've Got?

You know, the thing about scrappy underdogs like the Giants is that they're fighters. They bite back. HD DVD has apparently totally lost the will to win, or hell, even to live. Here's their timid response to Netflix and Best Buy's two-fister snub yesterday. More »

2:30 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By matt buchanan
19,450 views, 83 comments

netflix

MyNetflix Media Center Plug-In Turns Your PC Into a True Netflix Box

Anthony Park's MyNetflix plug-in for Vista Media Center is an awesome little add-on that lets you do pretty much anything you want with Netflix from within MC. More »

1:35 PM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By matt buchanan
13,005 views, 23 comments

format wars

Netflix Goes Blu-ray

Netflix has just announced that they will exclusively purchase Blu-ray DVDs instead of HD DVDs for their hi def rental option. While the company had formerly supported both formats, their stock of HD DVDs will be phased out completely by the end of this year. Netflix clearly agrees with everyone else that HD DVD is dead, and disco is happy to finally have some company. [reuters]

9:18 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Mark Wilson
7,132 views, 50 comments

macflix

Netflix Watch Instantly Online Video Finally Landing on Macs

As part of its earnings call, Netflix dropped the bit they intend to finally launch their all-you-can-eat Watch Instantly online video service for Macs later this year. The only holdup is/has been the lack of a Mac-native DRM system that Hollywood approves as sufficiently draconian. Hurray! Sorta. Mostly. [Electronista]

11:50 AM on Thu Jan 24 2008
By matt buchanan
8,666 views, 33 comments

money, money

Earnings Roundup: Nintendo, AT&T and Nokia Make Mad Bank

It's the end of the quarter, which means it's raining earnings reports—companies tell investors (and the world) just how much coin they're swimming in (or bleeding out). Today, Nintendo revealed that the Wii is printing money twice as fast as last year; AT&T pulled in almost 3 million new subscribers; Nokia now commands 40 percent of the handset; and Netflix is doing pretty well, too. Big numbers are this-a-ways. More »

10:30 AM on Thu Jan 24 2008
By matt buchanan
5,527 views, 12 comments

software

Easily Rip Netflix Streaming Movies To Your Hard Drive

Adam of Lifehacker found this pretty slick way of allowing Netflix users to download and save streaming movies onto their hard drives, meaning that you can take movies on the go without having to always be connected to the net. If this isn't illegal, it's most likely against the EULA; and if it isn't against the EULA, it's definitely against the spirit of Netflix's streaming movie feature. Adam had some troubles with getting this to work, but many other users say it works fine. If these downloaded movies can be streamed via Windows Media Extender to an Xbox 360, that would be crunktastic. [Lifehacker]

6:40 PM on Wed Jan 16 2008
By Jason Chen
16,303 views, 17 comments

Latest by buzzwizard: @kaneshadow: How true! That cracked me up... @smitty1123: I agree with you completely... Why rip movies that you can unlimitedly stream? (As long as Comcast doesn't f**k me for using too much of the intertubes). more »

netflix unlimited

Netflix Online Video Becomes All-You-Eat Tomorrow; Can It Compete With iTunes Video Rentals?

We had heard that unlimited online viewing had been granted to select Netflix subscribers last month, and suspected it'd get a full rollout soon. Well, soon is tomorrow—as the AP notes, a day before MacWorld, where Apple is expected to unveil its video rental-killer rendition of iTunes. More »

9:14 PM on Sun Jan 13 2008
By matt buchanan
15,141 views, 48 comments

streaming

Netflix and LG Bring Netflix Movie Streaming to TVs

Netflix' movie streaming is fine if you're OK with watching movies on your computer, but LG's planning on integrating hardware into their TVs to allow you to watch those same films in your living room. The NYT says LG and Netflix have reached a deal to be announced at CES to allow integration via its HD DVD/Blu-ray combo players as well as a TV line with Wi-Fi that will stream stuff straight from the internet. More »

9:24 PM on Wed Jan 2 2008
By Jason Chen
7,096 views, 17 comments

Latest by anonycat: deepdish says:"You expect mom and pop average citizen to hook up a dvi to hdmi cable from their computer to their tv?... for something like this to work, it has to be as easy as a toaster." I say: If someone more »