While I'm not keen on everything Microsoft is doing with the New Xbox Experience (NXE), I am really looking forward to the Netflix streaming video. Sadly, it's just become a little bit less awesome now that Shacknews is reporting that a planned movie sharing feature will not be implemented in the update which hits consoles on November 19th.
One of the main features Microsoft has been touting is a more community-based atmosphere, where players can meet up with each other in a virtual room and interact together in various ways. One of the activities planned was to allow up to eight users to all watch the same streaming movie simultaneously, like meeting up in someone's living room.
The other shared media aspect, photo sharing, will still be available when the dashboard update releases. And don't rule out the movie sharing entirely. Microsoft claims that they will still be delivering the feature at some point, suggesting that NXE is intended to be a more dynamic system of improvements instead of the biannual dump they've delivered in the past.
It's a little lame that I won't be able to watch the most recent episode of Heroes the night after it airs with friends who might not be able to hang out in person for it but this isn't really a major setback or anything. After all, we'll always have ShiMuNi.
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11:03 AM on 10.14.2008
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I'm cautious...
Let's all go ask the czar! Maybe he will know!
We're off to see the cz-ar! The czar of copyright infringement!
This is the third site now that has reported this news, stating something isn't there because of a statement that something else that is slightly similar but not related isn't there. Is there an actual quote somewhere from Microsoft that says "No, you can not watch Netflix videos in a party with your friends who also have Netflix" because I sure haven't seen it...
At least it seems like they will still have single Netflix stream support.
If so, then this news doesn't matter.
There are more pirates than netflix subscribers right?