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HD Netflix Streaming: Xbox 360 First
HDTV Lounge —
... Live Gold members. netflix hd The “soft launch” will start with about 300 titles available, but the exact content is currently unknown. It’s great too see some true movement in the area of HD streaming, a few questions still remain though. Just how good will the “HD” quality be (we assume 720p, compression?), how fast does your Internet need to be, and will when the HD streaming from netflix be added to the other already netflix streaming compatible devices be added? News tip Via Engadget .
Netflix HD streaming launching initially on XBOX 360
Boy Genius Report —
Netflix streaming in High Definition has been a long time coming but it finally looks like Netflix customers are in for a treat - as long as you’re an XBOX 360 owner, that is. News is rolling in this morning that the leading remote movie rental service provider is finally just about ready to drop its HD streaming service, but it will initially do so only via XBOX Live. Microsoft’s popular console is scheduled to receive a dashboard refresh on November 14th and when it rolls out, Netflix HD will come along with it (presumably in the US at least). The ...
New Xbox Experience brings HD Netflix streaming
Joystiq —
... Although Microsoft dodged this exact question every single time we asked it (and oh, we asked multiple times) - and temporarily dropped other, already confirmed features like movie sharing - the New Xbox Experience's Netflix app will indeed stream HD ...
Xbox 360 users get HD Netflix Streaming
PR News: —
... Netflix and Microsoft got together back in July and announced this new venture, just six months later we have been surprised to learn that we have the added feature of HD. This service will be available to Xbox Live Gold Members.
Engadget have had a chance to play around with the new dashboard, and it was then that they stumbled across the HD Netflix Streaming. They decided to stream Heroes, where they noted that the picture quality was just awesome.
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Netflix "Watch Instantly" In HD Coming First To Xbox 360 [New Xbox Experience]
Kotaku —
... the first to experience Netflix streams in high def, something Netflix subscribers can't currently do with any other hardware platform. Should that boastful claim change by mid November, we'll not be surprised. You'll obviously need to be an Xbox Live member of Gold status and have a Netflix subscription to partake in the HD thrills. Now, if we can just get the content available via Netflix's "Watch Instantly" service to be of higher quality and diversity, we'll be as happy as a clam. HD Netflix streaming comes to Xbox 360 first [Engadget via ...
Roku's Netflix Player handling HD content "by the end of the year"
Engadget HD —
... about streaming content from the formerly DVD-exclusive renter -- but for those non-Xbox owning, non-Live subscribing readers who want to get in on some HD Watch it Now action, we have some good news for you. Earlier indications were that other Netflix-friendly devices would see updates enabling high-def support and now, in what appears to be an official confirmation from Roku's VP of Consumer Products, that company's ...
Xbox Experience now available to all who signed up, Netflix HD streams too
Engadget HD —
... dashboard doesn't officially launch until Wednesday the 19th. But if you signed up for the preview (and who didn't?) with a valid console ID then it's available now according to Major Nelson. What's more, Netflix has confirmed its Xbox 360 launch details: more than 12,000 movies and TV episodes and 300 streaming HD titles. Remember, streaming is free for Netflix members who are also Xbox Live Gold members. The HD video streams will be limited to SD audio, however -- multi-channel audio is in the works as are additional HD titles. Now get outta here kid, NXE awaits. ...
Sony Pictures celebrates NXE eve by...blocking Xbox 360 Netflix movie streaming
Engadget HD —
... hits tomorrow morning (10:00 a.m. GMT), our friends at Joystiq noticed the list of movies available for Netflix Watch Instantly streaming has suddenly dropped. The culprit? Sony Pictures Home Entertainment subsidiary Columbia Pictures, flicking previously available titles like Superbad, Bad Boys, and We Own the Night over to "Not available on Xbox" status (curiously, SPHE movies are still available to all.) Word from the official Netflix blog cites "the ebb and flow" of what is available on license at any given time, causing a few hundred titles to be ...
Netflix CPO gets technical about encoding for streaming
Engadget HD —
... content actually gets to your TV set / computer while still managing to look at least halfway decent. If you're willing to be honest with yourself, there's a lot in the read link that you'll love. Without going too in-depth here (wouldn't want to scare anyone off, you know?), Netflix's Chief Product Officer covers the basics of first- and second-generation encoding as well as how it handles the wonderful high-def encodes that are used to deliver Watch Instantly content to the Xbox 360. Oh, and now that the ...
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