Netflix Hopes to Offer Services Via 360, PS3

Gamasutra is reporting on comments made by Netflix in a recent financials conference call. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings stated that the company is looking to offer movie service via next gen consoles at some point. "[Said Hastings,] 'In terms of enabling the viewing of online content on the television screen, we are exploring a variety of options, including Internet connected, high definition DVD players, internet connected game consoles, and dedicated internet set tops, with a variety of partners, trying to understand the best ways to provide inexpensive viewing of online content on the television.' .. It is unclear, however, whether either Sony or Microsoft would allow such a service to become available on their consoles, as both Sony prepares and Microsoft already offers their own internet-connected video-on-demand services over their respective networks."

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[macdude22]

They demo'd a silverlight based solution that ran on OS X (and Linux I think) some time ago, Silverlight has long since been released but alas no watch now upgrade. I've emailed them a couple times announcing my disappointment, as a Netflixer of going on 7 years they've gotten a lot of my money so they can spend some of it to support my Mac. Not something I'm going to cancel them over, as they are an incredible value to me, but I'll still be a grumbly fellow about it. I was really excited about the Silverlight solution as it looked to support just about everything, Mac, Windows, Linux, your amiga toaster.