Netflix surveys customers about service on Xbox 360

by Alexander Sliwinski on Mar 25th 2008 1:00PM

Netflix told Reuters today that it's been surveying its subscribers about interest in streaming movies using the Xbox 360. The company declined to go as far as saying this meant there was a partnership in the works, but did say it's looking to use "as many ways as possible" to provide its service to consumers.

The whole "Netflix on consoles" thing has been batting around for a while with reports last month that Netflix was running surveys to gauge consumer interest. Netflix has made no secret that it wants to be on consoles and our eyebrows were already raised way up early last year when Netflix CEO Reed Hastings joined the Microsoft board of directors. If Microsoft doesn't want to go down the Blu-ray path, but still wants to offer a service that makes it stand out, Netflix would certainly make a marquee alternative.

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i guess i shouldve been more specific.

this can potentiall be a sidestep for sonys BR choke hold *for microsoft* .

as for the conecrns you mention, i think its a little premature to rattle off a list of "concerns" or "short comings" on a service that is still in very early infancy stages.

MS has been hinting all along about offering a premier HD On-demand type service in place of having to pay BR royalties to Sony, im sure theyve been working on bandwidth options and limitations for quite awhile.

"Netflix is going to do this with the 360 AND the PS3."

source? sounds like you made that up to suit your argument .
if this is microsofts alternitive to bluray , then i cant see them being happy with the competition getting the service aswell , even moreso when you consider netflix ceo joined ms's board .

Sigh ...
http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/02/12/rumour-netflix-coming-to-ps3/

Yeah, Feb 12th ... talk about old news.

"source? sounds like you made that up to suit your argument."

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/11/netflix-coming-to-xbox-360-and-ps3/

This latest news might point more to the 360, but the original rumor covers both consoles. Either way, it's not exactly a concrete smack talk point yet.

netflix has to have some sort of agreement with sony pictures in order to distribute their films for rental purposes... there's no reason they should want to shut out distribution on the ps3 in favor of the 360. if everyone wanted to get involved in the exclusivity battle sony actually owns the rights to quite a large catalog of films... microsoft brings nothing to the table as far as that goes.

even if the CEO is on the MS board of directors it would make more sense to get paid from partnering with two companies providing your service than it would than from just one.

I would be all over this.

They didn't survey me! But if they had, I would've said that I would pretty much kill to have Netflix on the 360. It would answer most of my media-related prayers. And if Netflix would start renting games, too, as one of the previous commenters said, it would answer the rest of them. Gamefly tempts me, but they have so few distribution centers that I'm unwilling to take the plunge.

Chances that MS wants to bring another service on to compete with their rental revenue? Very low.

Unless, of course, the talks are to integrate netflicks with their rental service, and then MS gets a kickback from it.

Which, you know, would make sense.

And why would MS trade owning the whole pie for a mere slice of it?

For the netflix library, which dwarfs the MS library.

Re sign me up. I can hope... alot!

I'd prefer this to downloading movies for rental simply because... well, no HD space required.

However, unlike downloads, if Xbox Live is down or crowded, it could ruin the streaming experience.

Netflix has always been wanting to provide their service on the PS3 and 360. At this moment, neither side has publicly accepted. All these surveys are doing is gathering info showing if people really want this service or not on their consoles then netflix will use that data to sell the idea to them. Both companies could take the offer but it will most likely be one of them paying for the exclusive rights.

Im hoping Sony buys the exclusive rights for it since they dont have any true download service.

"This is a Live thread... I can post my opinion if I want. I can say that Live is the best console online service, and if you don't agree, then don't reply to me."

But you see Fernandos...you did NOT post your opinion. You posted your opinion as FACT.

"And some blind and jealous people say that Live is not the best online service..."

What you stated above is in the context of stating a FACT. What you should have said is something like this if you wanted to state your opinion...

"And some blind and jealous people say that Live is (in my opinion) not the best online service..."

You know, you don't need to preface an opinion by saying "I think" or "In my opinion".

For example: The world is going to hell in a handbasket.

Guess what. Thats my opinion. But I stated it as a fact, because as far as I care, it is. Just as fernando said "And some ... people say that Live is not the best online service..."

Holy crap, he stated his opinion as fact, just like everybody else does.

Please get over yourself.

And lets not forget the father of the playstation pretty much got fired for launching it. Only 4 good things Sony has going for them for their system. Home, MGS4 (Which everyone knows will be out on 360 as well, even if it has not been confirmed), Little Big Planet, and Motorstorm 2. They don't come anywhere close to what Microsoft has going for it. And there is no S in Fernando's name.

@Mrblonde - Did you just crack open Joystiq and randomly pick a topic to post about your love for MS?

You are right...you don't.
But when someone prestates an opionion with "this is a FACT" that's where they are wrong.

But yew just overlooked that little diddy eh?

Too funny. You are wrong in correcting his usage. Also, he's from Mexico - so I would ease on the lectures over proper sentence formation.

"And some blind and jealous people say that Live is not the best online service..." insinuates that it is an opinion comment regarding him liking live himself. The "fact" in that statement is only that some blind and jealous people are saying that live isn't the best service.

There is no fact claimed about Live actually being the best service in that statement. Your correction would change the subject of the statement entirely.

"Hrm, sorry to say but it is a fact that Xbox Live is better than PSN and Nintendo's Wi-Fi service."

This was the post I was referring too. Not Fenandos. (this time) Fernandos has done it in the past many, many times. Just look up his comments.

Constant bickering and whining and crying over the Internets on whos right and whos wrong....priceless for making the workday go by quicker.

Pwnd.

Of course, that's only my opinion and I must stress that there is no factual evidence for said pwnage having ever taken place. That would require some sort of psycho-analytical survey to ascertain the effects of NATO_Duke's comment on Killjebus' reputation amongst his peers. I just haven't got the time, unfortunately.

"And some blind and jealous people say that Live is not the best online service..."

What you stated above is in the context of stating a FACT. What you should have said is something like this if you wanted to state your opinion...

"And some blind and jealous people say that Live is (in my opinion) not the best online service..."

That is your post and it states what you were calling a fact rather than an opinion statement. Your new post more or less is acting like you said something completely different.

Its also intersting that when I say people can look at all your posts to see how you play loose with "facts" you say I am not answering your query, but then you say the same about people looking at Fernando's posts. On top you belittle us as internet nobody's who you can offend - but here you are in the mix with us Ken.

Hypocrite much?

@ Fernando

"This is a Live thread... I can post my opinion if I want. I can say that Live is the best console online service, and if you don't agree, then don't reply to me."
If this is how you feel, than you shouldn't post anything negative on PS3/PSP articles neither, hypocrite!

Now @ Ken

I'm a fellow PS3 owner and I know that Live is, currently, better than PS3. It offers alot. Especially, the shit that all PS3 owners been asking for (you know what). I look at it this way. M$ has had LIVE running for 5 years now. The PSN has been up little over a year now. In my OPINION, when Sony adds "in-game XMB", a video service and more PSN orignal & classic games, and keep the simple of price of FREE, then it will be better. Regardless of HOME or Netflix.

Hmm, perhaps Netflix hasn't heard what Microsoft typically does to its "partners" over the long term?

Run away, Reed Hastings. Run far, far away.

Toshiba limps away with a sore ass.....

As a subscriber to both Netflix and XBL, I wholeheartedly support this initiative.

To do this right, Microsoft needs to correct a glaring flaw in the 360 and allow us to add our own storage like the PS3 does. I need hard drive space for all this crap.

or at least not charge 60% more than the competition.

Sign me up please.

If they do this in HD I will switch over from Blockbuster online instantly..

Sign me up please.

Please I'll bite! Do it.

Why not have MS just give us an IE browser (I know IE isnt great but its all that works with online Netflix) on the 360? After all it is a MS product...

Problem solved.

And torrent support too!!

This was already posted as going to the PS3 possibly over a month ago on the PS3 fanboy. This won't sell more 360's than PS3's, it will just put them on the same level. Also, until Live figures out the magic of Dedicated servers, it will always lag more than my merry Warhawk time, which doesn't, ever.

It may be better since my consoled RRod'd a year after launch, but it was pretty crappy back then and that was before the halo 3 hordes had been logging on.

At long last us Mac users will have a way to use the "Watch It Now" feature we have been paying Netflix for for so long. Well, us Mac users with an Xbox.

A lot of people have mentioned the "netflix library," but this doesn't include their massive DVD library. Netflix needs a separate license to stream movies. The library they would offer is the same one available for streaming from their website--which is much less impressive.

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