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Also, there's a rumor of a new Wii HD upgrade in the works...
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1 edit | Re: Wii? Wait. What? The Wii can't play DVDs. Unless you're running some homebrew stuff. I thought the PS3 can play DVDs, no?
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Chicago, IL | Re: Wii? exactly.
Wii *can* play DVD, but nintendo doesn't want it to by default. it's not a hardware issue that it can't do it for.
my guess on this is they're holding out so they can say streaming netflix is another new feature of the next-yet-to-be-announced-but-highly-speculated-2010-release wii. of course there's also speculation that there won't actually be a new wii release in 2010, but instead will be a hardware "upconvert" which allows new features... (which, even though netflix could happen on the unit now, could still be added as a feature of even an 'upconvert'). | |
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The point is plain and simple: I cannot put a DVD into my Wii and play it. I have to have another external DVD player connected to my TV to watch a DVD without having the modify the system beyond the basic menu options provided by the manufacturer. | |
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Amerika | And from what I've read, no dumb fee X360 requires a $50/yr XBL gold subscription in addition to the normal Netflix monthly fee. | |
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kudos:4 | Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee $50 year won't break the bank. | |
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2 edits | Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee Neither will those "un-fees" on phone bills, but no one likes them either. This will be great for those who already have Netflix and a PS3 and those who love to watch movies and were thinking about getting a Netflix account.
I personally find the PSN more than adequate for my movie-watching lifestyle. But the more options the better. | |
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| Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee said by R4M0N:Neither will those "un-fees" on phone bills, but no one likes them either. This will be great for those who already have Netflix and a PS3 and those who love to watch movies and were thinking about getting a Netflix account. I personally find the PSN more than adequate for my movie-watching lifestyle. But the more options the better. Right. Would free be better? Sure. But I spend more than $50 in coffee a month and get less. 
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| said by ptrowski:$50 year won't break the bank. Especially when you can get it for only $25 to $30 a year. I'm good until 2012 and I only paid between $25 and $30 a year but getting it when they are on sale.
Just like I only pay $10 to $14 for every 1600 MS points I get. I buy them when they are on sale. | |
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| Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee said by aaronwt:said by ptrowski:$50 year won't break the bank. Especially when you can get it for only $25 to $30 a year. I'm good until 2012 and I only paid between $25 and $30 a year but getting it when they are on sale. Just like I only pay $10 to $14 for every 1600 MS points I get. I buy them when they are on sale. Great arrangement there!
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Also you assume everyone is some single loner living in his basement. Even at $25 of you have one account for the parents and they have 3 kids that's 4 XBL gold accounts and that's $100 year even on your bargain hunt. over 6 years that's $600. I could buy 2 more PS3s with that. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee That is a good idea because you will be using those extra PS3s to play with the other people in your household since no one else will be using one. I prefer my highly competitive bigger online gaming crowd.
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2 edits | said by BF69:said by aaronwt:said by ptrowski:$50 year won't break the bank. Especially when you can get it for only $25 to $30 a year. I'm good until 2012 and I only paid between $25 and $30 a year but getting it when they are on sale. Just like I only pay $10 to $14 for every 1600 MS points I get. I buy them when they are on sale. yes yes check everyday for a sale that may happen once every 3 months. Some people like to buy stuff when they want to buy it. Not make it a hobby. Also you assume everyone is some single loner living in his basement. Even at $25 of you have one account for the parents and they have 3 kids that's 4 XBL gold accounts and that's $100 year even on your bargain hunt. over 6 years that's $600. I could buy 2 more PS3s with that. No I don't assume a loner. Your average family with a 360 is not going to have four gold accounts. Most will have one or possibly two gold accounts and the rest will be silver accounts.
And besides with one gold accout you can play with multiple people online with that machine. I see it everytime I play multiplayer online. Other people have multiple people playing on one machine under the same account.
And I don't sit here and wait for a sale. When I see a sale going on I buy a bunch of the cards to cover me for a while. they have sales several times throughout the year. With XBL I bought enough to cover me for three years and my girlfriend for one. For points I bought enough to cover me for at least 12 months. Since I use XBL points for music with my ZUNE, videos on the Zune and 360, and games on the 360.
By getting them on sale I save up to 50%. And when I'm talking several hundred dollars, I would rather spend $200 on MS points than $400.
Unless you just like paying the retail price for everything you purchase which would be highly unusual.
Like with Windows 7. Why would I wait to pay the full retail price of Home Premium for $120? I preordered mine during the Summer when they were $50. | |
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| Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee said by BF69:said by ptrowski:$50 year won't break the bank. Well lets see Netlfix ofr free or Netflix for $50 which would I rather have? Sure it won't break the bank, but as the old saying goes a fool and his money. You have to be some serious kind of stupid to pay $50 for something you could get for free. It's not $50 for Netflix. If you find a way to get Netflix for free let me know.
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kudos:4 | Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee Right, you just drop the money for a PS3. That's free, right? | |
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1 edit | Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee I already have one. Like the X360, I use it to play single-player titles and Sony doesn't come after me for $50 a year in perpetuity. | |
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kudos:4 | Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee And that's why there are a few million less people on the PSN. You have a PS3, great. Too bad we have been streaming on the 360 for a while. Here's to catching up to a better online experience and Netflix. | |
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1 edit | Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee Here's to not having to pay Microsoft $50 for the privilege of paying Netflix.
And 1 million, 100 million, I don't play online titles on my consoles so I could care less about the "community" of XBL or PSN. I use the network functionality to grab demos and use the consoles as media center extenders, that's it.
For online gaming I stick to PC as console FPSes suck. | |
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kudos:4 | Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee This will go round and round. Go enjoy your PSN. | |
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But Ballmer I'm sure appreciates your business. | |
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| Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee said by Z80:Don't care about PSN, or XBL. But Ballmer I'm sure appreciates your business. Then why make such a fuss?
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Amerika | Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee Because Microsoft insisted on $50 per year for me to use Netflix on my XBL even if I didn't want to use any online gaming features. That additional fee equates to a 46% increase in monthly Netflix cost.
No fuss now that Sony will allow me to use Netflix over a console without paying $50 per year extra. | |
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| Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee said by Z80:Because Microsoft insisted on $50 per year for me to use Netflix on my XBL even if I didn't want to use any online gaming features. That additional fee equates to a 46% increase in monthly Netflix cost. No fuss now that Sony will allow me to use Netflix over a console without paying $50 per year extra. Right....and XBL is just for gaming. Free content, map packs etc. Being able to watch other videos, rent movies and TV programs. I have some friends that don't use XBL for gaming online at all but use it more for a media center to rent movies.
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1 edit | Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee You don't have to have a Gold account to rent movies. You don't have to have a Gold account to get demos. You don't have to have a Gold account to rent TV shows. You don't have to have a Gold account to get map packs.
Gold gets you video chat, online play (obviously) and Netflix, that's about it. The free Silver account gets you everything else. Netflix should be a Silver (Free) feature as it will soon be with the PS3.
The $50 is for the Gold account, not "XBL". You can get most XBL features without forking over $50 every year. Everything you mention (rentals, map packs etc) can be had using a Silver account. | |
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kudos:4 | Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee That's good to know then. I never bothered with a silver account as I play with friends online. | |
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I'd gladly pay the $50 for XBL. Sorry Sony, but PSN just doesn't compare. | |
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1 edit | Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee And PC online gaming (aside from sports) smokes them both.
XBL should have nothing to so with Netflix just like MCE has nothing to so with XBL. It's simply a feature of the console. | |
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Cheyenne, WY | said by Z80:X360 requires a $50/yr XBL gold subscription in addition to the normal Netflix monthly fee. Oh no! $50 a year!!! That's a whole 13 cents a day for an unlimited service. A pretty good deal, espcially considering that the people who have xbox360's and want xbl have disposable incomes since they need broadband, money for the console and money for the game.
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2 edits | Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee What unlimited service? I don't play online titles with my X360. I have no interest in XBL. The $50 in my case is for allowing Netflix and NOTHING else and I'm happy that I'm not longer going to fork over $50 to Ballmer.
$0.13/day to simply have the right to access Netflix IMO is dumb. That $50 is $50 more than Sony is going to charge for Netflix access.
You may be in to wasting money, but I'm not. PS3's opening Netflix for FREE as opposed to Microsoft charging $50 a year, I'll simply be turning off the X360, canceling XBL renewal and running the PS3.
Since you are a philanthropist, why not just give Ballmer a $100 a year for XBL. I mean, it's only $0.011/hr. | |
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Woodbridge, VA | some download, demos, etc, are available to gold accounts a week or two prior to being available to silver accounts.
I have a gold account for my gameplay and game purchases and a silver account I use for my music and video rentals and purchases. | |
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| Re: Who cares form canada said by chronoss2009:with coming caps and user based billing its NO SALE CAUSE ITS TOO EXPENSIVE Good point. On TSI however, you should have enough room until UBB kicks in. You can buy it on a monthly basis if you wanted too.
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| | Netflix Noobie So I've never really taken a look at Netflix and since I just got a PS3 this seems rather awesome.
So is this seriously going to be just 8.99 +tax? I guess I'll wait and see how the queuing stuff works | |
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| Re: Netflix Noobie said by Vathral:So I've never really taken a look at Netflix and since I just got a PS3 this seems rather awesome. So is this seriously going to be just 8.99 +tax? I guess I'll wait and see how the queuing stuff works That is what we pay for our Netflix account and it works on the 360. It really is a great setup.
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| and now I kind of want a PS3! One thing I don't get is why the app isn't able to be downloaded.
Guess it must take a full system update to integrate it?
Also, I wonder what the quality will be like - if they'll use the Silverlight streams or the (much better quality, IMO) WMV streams... I do know that ps3s can play WM Audio (non-protected I think), so I wonder if they'll just integrate the Microsoft DRM to its existing codecs or if it'll actually be a Silverlight install... If it's the latter, I wonder if it'll look any good on a TV (HD or not).
Either way, cool news for the PS3  ...Kind of want one anyway, and this is one more good thing going for it. Would also be nice to not have to pay extra. I personally don't game online with my 360. Half the reason I even got one was for Netflix though, so I've been paying for "gold" membership just to stream movies through it... | |
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kudos:1 | Re: and now I kind of want a PS3! You should just get that Bluray player with Netflix built in.
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| Re: and now I kind of want a PS3! said by sapo:You should just get that Bluray player with Netflix built in. I got one today at best buy for $100. Insignia brand. BD Live and works pretty well for a cheap Bluray.
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| Actually not a bad point sapo. ...I'd probably still want a couple games on it though, and it'd be nice to have it as another media extender type device.
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kudos:3 | Re: Dammit. was planning on breaking down and getting one this weekend but didnt get around to it. they have 30 day guarentee so you can just return it
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Irmo, SC | Just an FYI: PlayOn does this already Just an FYI: PlayOn does this already....its not directly to the PS3, so you have to have a PC inline, but they've offered this for a long time. | |
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| Re: Just an FYI: PlayOn does this already said by Koil:Just an FYI: PlayOn does this already....its not directly to the PS3, so you have to have a PC inline, but they've offered this for a long time. But you can't get it in HD that way. | |
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kudos:3 | said by Koil:Just an FYI: PlayOn does this already....its not directly to the PS3, so you have to have a PC inline, but they've offered this for a long time. playon is crap, its barely worked with netflix the last couple of months and besides netflix streaming to ps3 and wii everything else it does can be done much better with free dlna servers
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Limbo | Re: Just an FYI: PlayOn does this already It's been working fine for me. It sucks with my DirecTV HR-21s, but that's a DirecTV issue, not PlayOn.
I've even used it with an Archos 5 player.
I got an email from them today hinting that they're gearing up for some major updates to the product as well. If they can get it to perform all of the same functions as TVersity, I'll have no need for Tversity anymore since it doesn't stream Netflix (at least presently).
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Also, PlayOn lets me watch my Hulu lists. (TVersity gives you Hulu as well, but only the generic lists - no login).
Oh, yeah, and I have access to my extensive MP3 and video selection - through either TVersity or PlayOn...using library "folders" through the XMB interface instead of just filesystem folders you'd get using a USB drive.
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Might anyway, always love fun new toys tho, but it means the wife gets to spend money too...
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New Orleans, LA | Re: Don't have to buy a 360 and a PS3 now! I debated on getting both and did after awhile. I am very happy with my decision
I use the PS3 for Blu-Ray and games
I use the 360 for Live and games
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1 edit | Re: Don't have to buy a 360 and a PS3 now! I use the Roku to stream now. Will move that to the kids game room. I have the PS3 in my command center. Yes now I can stream. Though I was going to have to move the Wii but the PS3 gets the nod first. Good job!!!
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| Netflix Streaming Coming to PS3 Nice! Hopefully this will force the Play Station Network to re-evaluate their price structure and/or the length of time you have available to view the movies you rent.
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Lincoln, NE | is HD confirmed for the PS3 ???? title says all..... | |
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join:2001-11-13
Seattle, WA | Re: is HD confirmed for the PS3 ???? HD really isn't HD, I have the Roko too, HD just means slightly better picture quality, High Def. | |
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| Re: is HD confirmed for the PS3 ???? said by toby:HD really isn't HD, I have the Roko too, HD just means slightly better picture quality, High Def. I don't know about the Roku box, but on TiVo, Netflix streams HD (720p), granted it's nowhere near the quality you'd get from blu-ray, but it is technically HD.
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join:2001-11-13
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| Re: is HD confirmed for the PS3 ???? The uncompressed results might be at the resolution and frame rate, but the device (roku/tivo) is making half of the information up. It is similar to upconverting dvd players, the information just isn't there to produce that resolution.
Remember when DirecTv used to transmit HD channels and now they are HD-Lite, the same thing. | |
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| Re: is HD confirmed for the PS3 ???? said by toby:The uncompressed results might be at the resolution and frame rate, but the device (roku/tivo) is making half of the information up. It is similar to upconverting dvd players, the information just isn't there to produce that resolution. There's nothing in the HD standard that says HD has to be a specific bit rate, only the resolution and frame rate are specified. So for all intents and purposes Netflix is HD (as was DirecTv and is Comcast's HD).
There's nothing to "make up" since the video is already at the right resolution, there's simply less detail in the picture. It's like comparing cable or OTA HD to blu-ray. Both are HD, but blu-ray looks better.
As for Netflix, it can come close to cable and OTA HD quality do to the fact that it uses VC-1AP which is a more advanced codec than MPEG-2 and also that they optimize their video encodes.
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Birmingham, AL | Can you play movies from Sony Studios on the 360? I was under the impression you could not. If not, and if you can on the PS3, I may get a PS3 just for more movie selections. | |
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| Finally First, let it be known that I own a PS3, Xbox 360, and a Wii. I have also had a Netflix account for over a year now. I very rarely play games online, so I do not have an Xbox Live Gold account. I did stream using my 360 with my free month and it was ok. I use my PC for streaming most of the time (it's hooked up to a 42" LCD 1080p TV) but with the inception of Silverlight, I can no longer play World of Warcraft, or do anything else for that matter, on my monitor and Stream at the same time on my HDTV (in fullscreen mode, anyway). This will make it so that I can stream via my PS3 and play WoW, or do anything else I want to, at the same time, just like I want to and used to be able to before Netflix switched to Silverlight. I too hope they have HD streaming available to those of us who would like to use their PS3s for this.
I also wanted to note the best statement in the press release, next to the actual announcement of Netflix on the PS3. This is where Sony is better than Microsoft in this case:
Members can use the Netflix Web site or navigate directly on their PS3 systems to add movies and TV shows to their Queues. With the PS3 system's Wireless Controller, members can choose a movie to watch from their instant Queues or just play directly from any of the lists. They also have the ability to read synopses and rate movies. In addition, they have the option of fast-forwarding and rewinding the video stream via the Wireless Controller. Whereas I remember having to add to my Queue on my PC and then being able to stream it to the 360. This was annoying. | |
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| | | Re: Finally said by Couch Potato: I also wanted to note the best statement in the press release, next to the actual announcement of Netflix on the PS3. This is where Sony is better than Microsoft in this case: Members can use the Netflix Web site or navigate directly on their PS3 systems to add movies and TV shows to their Queues. With the PS3 system's Wireless Controller, members can choose a movie to watch from their instant Queues or just play directly from any of the lists. They also have the ability to read synopses and rate movies. In addition, they have the option of fast-forwarding and rewinding the video stream via the Wireless Controller. Whereas I remember having to add to my Queue on my PC and then being able to stream it to the 360. This was annoying. This is no longer the case on the xbox... you can browse and such from the interface. | |
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