Amazon Instant Video on Xbox 360

by joshstrange • 14 years ago

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ChrisLTD2• 14 years ago

This is excellent news. Now the only thing that keeps me from using the Xbox (rather than the Roku or Apple TV) to stream movies & TV is the loud fans...

Feoh• 14 years ago

Have you seen the Xbox 360 Slim? Its fan is nearly silent. MUCH better than the original. Also, the power supply is much quieter as well.

ChrisLTD2• 14 years ago

I've never been in a place where I could compare the fan. Sounds like a great improvement!

mrsteveman1• 14 years ago

I have an Xbox 360, I actually like it a lot.

All these nice capabilities are available now on the Xbox, Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon Instant, Hulu, etc. Even some cable companies are offering the use of the Xbox as an IPTV device for their own service, including Comcast last I checked.

Naturally you have to pay for each of those separately, for those that require a fee. No big deal, they're already separate services that just happen to work on the Xbox, just like some of them work on my Roku, or my Apple TV, my iPhone, my iPad, or any number of other platforms.

However Microsoft appears to be the only company charging me, the owner of the box I bought from them, and the user of those other services I already pay for, for the ability to use them on their platform.

All those things stop working, even Twitter and Facebook, if you quit paying for Live Gold, and that's actually the primary motivation for a lot of people to pay for it month after month, because stuff stops working on the box if you don't, stuff that Microsoft isn't even in charge of running, stuff that you're already paying for.

self.rant = OFF;

Amazon Instant Video on Xbox 360

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