CrunchGear

…and blu-ray better come down in price real quick if they have any chance to win this one. I personally prefer to have movies in a physical format (if I’m paying for them), but…will…not…spend…$30…on…any…movie. You hear me studios??

Is this really a war at all ? Anyone seen the horrible quality of netflix movies and how long it takes to stream em? a movie i recently watched on netflix paused like a few dozen times and we are not even talking 20% the quality of High Def…

If you saw the preview for this on Xbox Live, it showed a lot of new movies that weren’t on the Instant Watch menu. This means that the Netflix movies Microsoft are talking about aren’t the ones you see on Instant Watch. Knowing Microsoft, it will definitely bring these in HD. Also, if your connection is 3 mbps (basic DSL) or higher, you should have no problem watching them continuously.

Sudru you may need a faster internet connection. With streaming you need a fast connection.

Optical is knocking at your door bud. They just offered it in Colorado Springs and Denver and your town will be next. Once optical gets into your home they will be able to stream several 1080p’s at once without even denting the bandwith. So don’t underestimate the power of online contenet. Soon Blu-ray and any other hard storage will be only for recording. Sony better step up and looooooower thier prices on players, recorders and disc’s if they want to have a prayer of continuing sales.

Hey, Sundru and All. I’m having no trouble streaming movies with my Netflix. I use it often and I think it’s great. I also have an XBOX 360, but I don’t think I’ll use it to stream movies, since Netflix works well enough for me.

I do plan on getting the PS3 now that they have dropped in price and the DVD war is over.

John

If you have an Xbox, a PS3, and Netflix you can use your 8.99 subscription to get blue ray movies on disc and stream video whenever you want. I really don’t need to watch 30 rock in blue ray HD, but awesome action movies obviously require blue ray’s capabilities. Best of both worlds

After I read Netflix/Xbox news - I started to wonder if it would make more sense to put MS in my living room (vs. Roku box).

And then –>
1. Netflix took down “Lost” from watch instantly
2. Netflix took down “24″
3. they even took down “Jericho”
leaving complete garbage in their “watch instantly” - TV series section.

Almost makes me want to cancel the whole Netflix thing

I heard at some point, just like water out of a faucet.. your going to have to pay for bandwidth due to the growth of the internet and the cost of upgrading the equipment will not be cheap. Need I say anymore about streaming movies?

I wrote some psuedocode that summarizes this pretty well.

$mooreslaw = {Current high bandwidth adoption in the US is not widespread enough to stream BluRay quality movies. But that is changing and in 2-5 years it will be more feasible. In 2-5 years Blu-Ray will have a successor out on the market with better HD better sound and larger bandwidth requirements. So in 5-10 years internet speeds will be fast enough to stream that bluray successor. but 5-10 years from now there will be a successor to blurays successor.};

while technology.Exists{
$mooreslaw;
}

Microsoft is going to have to figure a medium to sell large content games the will not fit on 1 DVD!

This is a smart move, Toshiba backed out of the market because they said they would never see a return of investment on HD DVD and the war was pointless and they would just cut their losses. Spinning media is going to die it is the main breaking point of technology but this is not going to happen over night, as microsoft stated they have yet to fill a dvd-dl with a game and even so if they go to multiple disk they have now added the same feature the PS3 has been using by letting you copy it to your hard drive, and how long before you can download the game and not have to even have media at all, no more scratched disk that you have to go through a stupid process if you want it replaced, you just download it again under your xbox live account. Also have you guys not noticed that apple tv is back again I know comcast hates to hear it but streaming media is here to stay and their bandwidth well I bet they will try and QOS it(comcast that is).

One more thing streaming bluray movies will not happen because bluray movies are mpeg2 and they are much better formats like say mpeg4 something of the last 10 years which is much better for picture and compression, but still the quality of the movie is to be seen so until then I will believe once I can see it.