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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.
But whenever I start NetFlix it shows me a screen saying that I need an xbox Live Gold account and I have the choice either create one or exit the program. (because it is an RGH device I can't create on)
You need to install the TU in the content folder, then do a TU scan with aurora, which will restart aurora, and scan content folder for TU's, then you can enable the TU in aurora. Then it wont get deleted, and you should be able to use the app without issue. Aurora erases TU's that arent enabled, and without scanning it doesnt know it exists.
Hello! I did this and Netflix asks for gold membership. Luckily it saved my TU 13 so I can use it. THe only new thing that TU 16 has (As far as I could see) is the Netflix screen.... It is a big red picture now... then it asks for gold. Anyone else with this problem?
Working ..... can someone provide the youtube app?? the latest youtube pp don't require xbox live gold .. just xbox live user maybe we can try with fakelive or just spoof live on console .. i would realy like yotube on my xbox 360.
and by the way .. No boxart for netflix... the only verison of youtube i have is from 2011 .. Xbox One and Xbox 360 will drop the requirement for an Xbox Live paid membership to access services like Netflix, Hulu and YouTube. Microsoft announced in may 2014 ... netflix don't required xbox live services and is working ... can someone post an recent youtube app ???
I tried to put the folder 394707D1 on my external HDD, but where should I put the other folder (Media Update) and TU 16? My computer is connected with my Xbox through a FTP cable so I can see on my computer (Network) USBM0...should I put these files there? Does it help?
A couple of days ago I finally succeed to fix this (I don't know how, but now it's not working anymore)... sign in with my account and then when I tried to load a movie it gets stucked at 25%...all day I tried to fix this but nothing (sign out then sign in again, changing DNS, reinstall the application, router restart)... is there a solution to fix this ? I saw on the Internet that is a common problem, but any of you faced this problem?
I will check for the name of the tu.
yeah I know that I need a netflix account for it I am not one of those haha
Update:
I got it working, the tu was placed in the cache folder apart from the game folder, and that did the trick.
There is a lot to be excited about with this new Xbox Live update scheduled... um... sometime (they keep changing it - currently slated for Autumn 2009 which, by my calendar, is right now). If you are really hooked on social networks, Facebook and Twitter functionality is for you. If you've been looking for a way to stream Internet Radio into your home theater, you'll love Last.Fm. If you are an avid downloader of video content, you'll be excited not only by the 1080p resolution of the new Zune Marketplace, but also the ability to start the video while you are downloading (called Instant Streaming). While the official update has not been released, I've been invited into the beta which is probably pretty close to what you'll experience when it does go live. Realize, however, that some or all of my concerns might be addressed before the final version and, knowing Microsoft, some of my favorite features might be modified, mangled, or lost.
One thing to remember is that all of these services require an Xbox Live Gold account. A Gold account costs around $50 a year. Facebook, Twitter, and Last.Fm all are free to use with a free subscription from the Internet. It makes more sense for Microsoft to enable Silver members (Silver is free but is extremely limited) access to at least Twitter and Facebook. I could understand how Last.Fm might hog enough bandwidth to require a paid subscription but how much does it cost Microsoft to give access to Facebook and Twitter? Maybe a lot but I don't see how.
While these are two different services, they really are similar enough that grouping them makes sense. It seems that just about everyone is trying to get their content on to or their devices connected to one or both of these services. At the same time, Facebook and Twitter are trying to figure out how to make themselves profitable (edit - an employee of Facebook reminded me that they announced profitability in September). That aside, my question is why anyone would ever use one of these services from their Xbox on a regular basis. They both practically require the addition of a keyboard (though you can technically use in on-screen interface if you are some sort of masochist) which can take the form of a specialized controller or a USB keyboard. This seems like a thinly veiled attempt to sell more of those keyboard controllers. The interfaces are cutesy with your Avatar standing around looking sort of bored but I can't see why I need this on the Xbox. Frankly, hardcore gamers tend to be tech-heads. They surely have a desktop in a nearby room, a laptop on the seat next to them, or a smart phone they can use to access Facebook and Twitter. Even if they don't, why would they need that access? You've long been able to leave text and voice messages to your Xbox Live buddies and enter live chats with groups more recently. Unless you really can't wait to brag to the Facebook world that you headshotted xxIeAtBaCoNxx, these services on the Xbox go straight over "Me too" and into "Who cares?" The only real advancement here is that certain games will allow you to upload in game videos to Facebook. This is a great way to show your skills to your friend or perhaps to put together a training video but it remains to be seen if it will be adopted by any but the most hardcore.
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