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Aug 2, 2024, 6:03:48 AM8/2/24

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From MSFT's side, I think it's more about adding value to their already excellent Xbox Live Gold service, and if they attract more customers to subscribe to Gold because of the features they're adding, great.

On the other hand, I've been a cord cutter for years. Why pay for a ton of content I don't care about when I can get most of the content I want for free? The rest of the content I want can either be watched via my quite cheap streaming-only Netflix account or by purchasing DVDs.

This Verizon FiOS deal doesn't do much for me. It's much the same as the Hulu deal with MSFT where you can only access the Hulu content on XBL Gold if you subscribe to Hulu Plus (which I have no reason or desire to do). Because the cable companies refuse to change, they're becoming irrelevant.

Yeah, well, it might not do a lot of that. I picked up an xbox at a garage sale with the intention of using it solely for streaming netflix. I didn't know that you had to subscribe to MS's service to be able to do that. It angered me, as Netflix doesn't (or shouldn't) actually use the xbox live service, doesn't add any value to the netflix service, almost doubles the cost of the service, and I'd get to give yet more money to Microsoft in exchange for exactly nothing.

The xbox went to the goodwill, and I've warned a few other people who were thinking of doing the same thing to avoid using the xbox for it. If Microsoft was a little less greedy, they may have actually sold me some games and made some money from me, instead of leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

I think you vastly underestimate how much you'd pay on an a la carte basis for the niche channels you list. AMC Networks has operating expenses of about $750 million. They obviously get revenue from ad sales, but the bulk of their revenue comes from cable operators. If instead of receiving payments from the 96 million US households that get AMC programming, they had to be paid by the households that actually want AMC programming (their highest-rated program, The Walking Dead, drew 6.6 million viewers Sunday night), the costs would be very high.

Cable providers just don't git it. All there off brand channels are only financially successful because of bundling channels. If you AMC's viewership is 96 Million, just think how few other really off brand cable channels reach.

I cut the cord about 2-3 years ago. Subscribed to NetFlix. Haven't looked back, doubt I will. Wake me up with HBO and Showtime(the only two cable offerings I really miss) are available w/o a monthly subscription to the crap that currently goes with them, and I'm in.

Would like to make a post about xbox .During the summer I paid for internet for the house so my boys had a gold membership that stopped in august .I find out today that my credit card has been charged the last 2 months for live which we do not use nor new we had .I run my laptop off my phone .If you think you have to have live I would wipe out your credit card info from your unit as I was told by Microsoft ANYONE can get into it and you to will be paying someone's funtime .Microsoft being the greedy people they are would of course not refund my money .

I'm a bit confused by the article. I think the author is ranting a little too much against cable companies and just not appreciating what is happening here. Picture this: Your house doesn't have every single room wired with a coaxial cable. You don't want to spend a ton of money wiring your house. You've got a room you would like your kids to watch Nick, Nick Jr, or Cartoon Network but this room has no coaxial. Now here's where it gets interesting. Your Xbox 360 is streaming live TV through the Internet. This isn't pre-recorded data files sitting on a Netflix or Hulu server. This is LIVE TV being streamed straight to your Xbox 360 through Wfi. In other words, this is (as far as I know) the first time you've been able to watch cable TV wirelessly. Sure there's the added expense of Xbox Live Gold but you can get those cards cheap if you look for discounts/sales AND you're not renting a cable box for $5-$10 a month.

Xbox Live Home Gold lets you set one Xbox One as your home Xbox, so that anybody logged into it, whether or not they have Gold themselves, can have your Gold privileges. Is it possible to set my One as the home machine, log in two non-Gold users, then log in on another Xbox with my Gold account, so that all three of us get Gold privileges with only my account? What if the second (non-home) Xbox is a 360?

The Home Gold counts as you being logged in to that console. Note they can use netflix and you can use multiplayer. But even then i have to be signed for any gold stuff to work for my wife. She has her own account that has apps but signs in as me and then continues to sign in as her. When i play defiance i have to resign in to the ONe after i finish to play Titanfall.

According to Xbox Support, the scenario you describe should work. Any account logged in to your home Xbox One (whether you are logged in or not) will have access to anything that requires a Gold account, and as long as you have an active Gold subscription any Xbox One you log in to will allow you to use Gold features as well.

Xbox Live Gold sharing doesn't exist on the 360, so that should work the same as it always has - any account that has a Gold subscription will be able to use Gold features, and all other accounts won't.

I have played all of the Battlefield 1 single player content. Everything worked great and I really enjoyed the games. I always saw that I did not have access to online play when I would click on those choices at the main menu. This made sense since I did not have an XBox gold of Ea subscription.

I purchased the "They Shall Not Pass" game add-on and downloaded it but it does not show up at all in the menu for single player. Is this add-on only functional for on-line play? If so, I assume I will need the Xbox Gold account, but do I also need to subscribe to the EA subscription at $5.00/month?

I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed the game. You dont need EA accses to play online, i'ts like Netflix for games. But you will get more things like early access and discount on games. Please read this _CA.html

the TSNP DLC is an extension and belongs to the multiplayer. It has nothing to do with the single player. To play multiplayer, you'll need an XBox Gold membership. You didn't need EA Access or Origin Access to play the multiplayer just XBox Gold. Just buy XBox Gold and have fun

Thanks for responding to my post. I have gotten an Xbox Gold account and am up and running. I was stumped for a little while cause after getting Xbox Gold I was still seeing a message that online access was not available, but finally, after running through all my set-up configurations for my Xbox, I found that by going into the game, choosing the multiplayer content (and still seeing the 'denied' message) I could press the 'x' key and the game would try to reconnect to the Battlefield 1 servers. Once I did, it started right up and I was off and running. Such a simple solution that, had I known about it, it would have saved me a few hours of tinkering instead of playing...

Im experiencing a different problem. I bought the Xbox 1 bundle back which came with a free one month subscription to battlefield 1, my subscription has run out and I cannot launch my game, I keep getting a error code telling me I need to manage my subscriptions and I know my Xbox Gold is covered. Do I have to subscribe to play?

You can get an EA Access subscription which allows you to play the games in the EA Access Vault - which includes the Battlefield 1 base game - without having to purchase it, dor the duration of your subscription.

Hi guys. The Microsoft Edge is my favorite browser of all times, really, but not when I try to watch netflix or other video streaming services, it always breaks, I have no ideia what to do anymore. Always when I try to play something there's an error and then I need to reload over and over again, sometimes even when I just play the video it stop working when I try to play again. Help me to keep using this best browser that I've ever seen.

I've ever tried to disable hardware acceleration, enable DRM content, install Microsoft Silverlight and a lot of other things, but I didn't get to watch so far without an error I keep receiving these error codes: D7356-7701 and others related. Is there's still something that can be done to really fix theses erros or I just have to be patient and wait for news versions of the browser?

xbox is connected and able to download covers from unity. not sure why it doesnt work for me. turned fakelive off and it tells me i need xbox live gold to use netflix. also keeps prompting me to update before sign in to live. i think ill turn fakelive on again and wait til for help/info.

i dont mind if anyone uses it, customizes it or even uses parts of it to make a new one. i threw it together with images from google and took about an hour or so to get it how i thought looked nice. the easiest way to manually install new artwork is using aurora asset editor. sometimes it takes a few tries to ftp your database but when it loads, find app, right click get front art, drag pic to program, go back to ftp tab and right click for save all artwork. go back to 360 and restart aurora. artwork should display. u can also add backgrounds etc if you like while using editor.

apparently it works already for some long time. I wish youtube was working. Fake live does not help caused by network error caused by the live blocks. I think all the other apps are patchable but i dont know if its possible. The trainer builders or HEX Editors may know what to do and maybe a Dev Kit would help.