Have a Netflix account, MacBooks, iPhones and Wii and can watch Netflix anywhere. Kid wanted the XBox Kinect did not enough research and am now being forced to pay again for Netflix and other nonsense. 50 dollars a year, I run over to the Apple store purchase an AppleTV for 99 and can watch Netflix unlimited.

A class action would be perfect to show Microsoft that we are not brain dead customers that can be pick pocketed whenever they feel like it.
2nd hand car sales men look like angels compared to this.

Shame on you.

I just happened to read one of the netflix offers i got in the mail (they come with a frequency that reminds me of the AOL CDs of old!). For whatever reason i scanned the offer and then read the fine print at the bottom where it said that for Xbox Live you need Gold. My reaction: WTF?! then google and then here i am.

i have an Xbox 360 that i play games on sometimes but never got gold. Like almost everyone else it’s just the arbitrary FU from Microsoft here that’s the problem. The article talks about bandwidth usage… well that’s a fair point, but perhaps if they didn’t design their system in such a way that the data had to transition through their servers then this wouldn’t be an issue (and honestly if they ARE proxying each and every stream so it goes from Netflix to MS (on anything other than a “peered” or colocated equipment ) and then to users that’s just a wasteful way of shipping video around).

I was astounded. I had previously paid for the gold subscription for several years before I gave up on it. I only played 1 game online (halo) and finally got bored of the series at Halo 3.

Xbox Live has absolutely nothing to do with streaming from Netflix, just as streaming Netflix to my PC has nothing to do with windows servers!

Microsoft is practically stealing from their customers! Suffice it to say, I am no longer proud to own a 360. This is morally reprehensible. I’ve spent over $1,000 on Microsoft products and probably would’ve spent thousands more over the years, but after dealing with Microsoft for a while (and not feeling like I was getting my money’s worth), this Netflix thing was the last straw. I haven’t purchased a single game since that moment and I never will again.

I don’t care if the next console Microsoft releases is 20 times more powerful than any competitor’s and has 20 times more games. I can thank Microsoft for one thing though. They’ve made the decision making process much easier for me when I decide to buy another console.

Additionally, I have convinced several friends and family members who were interested in buying a 360 not to and to instead buy a PS3. I also can’t use Netflix, since it’d only be useful on my TV through my 360. Netflix has also lost a loyal customer here for allowing this.