said by Karl Bode:Hollywood content licensing is an obnoxious minefield, and I'd assume some at Microsoft wonder why get into that business when you can layer someone else's Internet video services on top (Hulu, Netflix).
Sure, every business model has it's cost... but surely there's profit in it... even if it's a slight loss-leader the extra marketing leverage from such a feature would be HUGE, right?
I just don't understand why the debate... MS has obscene amounts of cash just laying around - it's not like they had to pick and chose where to put their scarce capital... they could have EASILY owned the cable cos and the entire TV space if they'd just used the full potential of the _original_ XBOX. Somebody REALLY dropped the ball at MS on this, IMO.