Category: Xbox 360
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Sony blocks content on Xbox 360 – The fallout of HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray persists
I have now mentioned in two posts that the exclusive arrangement between Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Netflix which affords the viewer realtime HD video on demand streaming of over ten thousand titles, would pose a real threat to Sony and overpriced Blu-Ray. Well Sony has demonstrated this to be true by blocking its (Columbia) catalog…
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New Xbox 360 Experience Launches Today in Tandem With HD Netflix Streaming
Xbox 360 owners rejoice – the next phase in the set-top entertainment paradigm is upon us. As I mentioned in earlier posts, Microsoft was able to forge an exclusive partnership with online DVD rental mogul Netflix that brings the catalog direct to your home entertainment system (with an existing Netflix membership) at no additional cost.
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Video games make playing God fun!
I am hacker when it comes to playing games – most gamers are – we like to see what we can can break about it before we commit to finishing it. Even Will Wright admitted this; the first thing kids do when they encounter a new game is figure out what the limits are -…
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Xbox and Netflix Team Up – Still Waving that Blu-Ray Banner SONY?
From xbox.com: “At E3, Microsoft and Netflix, the world’s largest online movie rental service, today unveiled an exclusive partnership to offer the ability to instantly stream movies and TV episodes from Netflix to your television via Xbox 360®.” Netflix recently introduced its Watch Instantly program that allows subscribers to view selected (that is, the titles…
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Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD – the end of another format war
Here at the Culturepin I provide a form of virtual safari through the bleeding edge landscape of the world and contemporary society. Suffice to say it is a treacherous terrain filled with uncertainty and conflict that requires a certain mad bravery to traverse. Even more treacherous is attempting to predict what will unfold around the…