Comments on: Netflix Via 360? Survey Says… Maybe

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Netflix Gauging Interest in an iPhone App — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:32:26 +0000

[...] company’s plans in the past, including one that gauged subscriber interest in streaming on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gaming consoles. But not all surveys end up resulting in new products or features; take, for [...]

By: rsslivetv

rsslivetv — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:33:48 +0000

I just visited the Netflix website and it appears that they're still pushing the old DVD by mail model. You have to hunt around to find info about the real-time streaming. I'm surprised that the online movie streaming business is so devoid of competition. Except for CinemaNow, who else is there? If I can watch full-length movies on Hulu for the price of just watching a trailer, why can't Netflix make a buck but streaming movies for $3.99? It looks like they still want to sell you a package plan.

By: Shadow-Keeper

Shadow-Keeper — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:42:49 +0000

Some of you playstation fan boys crack me up.
I have a playstation 3 as well (I bought it for the player) and I’m still waiting for the lower priced blueray movies. Now that blueray won I highly doubt the price will drop any time soon. I’m sure Sony has to make up the revenue after buying out and cutting deals with movie studio’s to beat out HD-DVD.
However if Netfix offers movies and (HD) content via down load I can see where Xbox 360 will have the advantage.
Even if Dave was correct (above) and it was offered to Playstation 3 owners I can see where blueray movie discs might be put off onto the back burner.
i just know that at 30 bucks a pop for one movie, I’ll continue to wait.
Currently Netfix’s most expensive offer is24 dollars a month (with four movies ordered at a time) and that is whole lot cheaper.

By: David

David — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:02:30 +0000

You say the PS3 is 'struggling to compete' with the 360? What are you on? It has outsold the 360 worldwide for the last 17 weeks and that's without releasing any of its big exclusives yet. Microsoft slashed the price of the 360 in the EU a few weeks ago to half that of the PS3 yet the PS3 is still outselling it there. The 360 is being outsold in Japan about 10:1 every week by the PS3 and it has been outsold by the PS3 in the US every week so far in 2008.

The only reason the PS3 is behind the 360 in total sales is because the 360 was released a year earlier. The PS3 has recently reached 11m sales and it did so faster than the 360 did.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:46:40 +0000

one problem with your reasoning, netflix ran the same survey about streaming to the ps3, only difference was a one time charge of a few bucks for a disk needed for the ps3.

that still may mean the blu-ray loses luster, but it won't mean the ps3 loses out completely.