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Originally Posted by Rochard
Hollywood just fucked itself..... Now they'll have to share their profits with Netflix AND Microsoft...... All because they were asleep at the wheel.
Microsoft's Xbox 360 to stream Netflix movies
LOS ANGELES - Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console will be able to stream thousands of movies over the Internet, thanks to a deal with Netflix.
The arrangement Microsoft Corp. announced Monday at the E3 Media & Business Summit in Los Angeles will give Netflix's 8 million subscribers another way to stream movies on a TV instead of a computer. A Netflix-backed startup called Roku already sells a small streaming device that connects to TVs.
The Netflix streaming service ? which operates in addition to its DVD-by-mail program ? offers 10,000 movies and TV shows. Microsoft's Xbox had movies available before, but not nearly as many. This expansion is key in helping Microsoft compete with Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3, because gaming consoles are becoming entertainment hubs with movies, videos and music.
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Uh, Hollywood owns the copyrights to every single second of what netflix is showing.
They can pull the plug any time they want.
Netflix is just another broadcast partner like ABC, CBS, NBC, HBO, Showtime....no no no no no wait.... Hollywood fucked up by allowing showtime and HBO in the business.
If it wasn't for HBO, Showtime and Netflix etc... Hollywood wouldn't be making jack shit these days.
When's the last time you actually went to a movie theater?
Saying that Hollywood was asleep on this is not really true.
Hollywood makes movies, not streamimg websites with big investments that might
unltimately fail leaving then without capitol to do what there real buisiness is; which is making the movies.