As of right now I can play my Netflix on my computer, on my 360, through that Netflix box thing and through my PS3. Down the road the streaming video part of the service has already been confirmed for the Wii, though thanks to the many hi-def options most gamers already have that won't be so useful to a lot of us. The main problem with all of these things is that they can't fit in your pocket. Netflix just isn't portable enough -- yet.
The company seems to be doing some research into getting their streaming videos onto portable devices. Last week a survey was discovered asking about Netflix on the iPhone and this week it's the DSs turn. Kotaku found a survey conducted by Netflix that stated, "Imagine that Netflix offers its subscribers the ability to instantly watch movies and & TV episodes on their Nintendo DS. The selection available to instantly watch includes some new releases, lots of classics and TV episodes. There are no advertisements or trailers, and movies start in as little as 30 seconds. You can fast-forward, rewind, and pause or watch again. The movies & TV episodes you instantly watch are included in your Netflix membership at no additional fee."
The survey then went on to explain that you would be able to control the videos you were watching (fast forward/rewind) and asked the survey taker how interested they would be in the product/service. My response to that at the moment would be "not very," but with the DSi XL landing, and those big, sexy screens rolling in with it, that response would change pretty quickly.
New survey hints at Netflix streaming for DS [Yahoo! Tech, via Kotaku]
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1:00 AM on 03.11.2010
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You need wifi to access a "portable video"? No thanks.
I don't watch movies on my PSP much, but I visit Flipnote Studio every day and I know the Nintendo fanboys that are on that ache for some form of video playback on the thing because they have to make a lame-ass petition flipnote instead of drawing animations like they should.
If it gets those twits to shut up, then good has been done.
iPhone support please!
I've watched the entire Clannad series on my Nintendo DS once, and I can say that a 256x192 resolution isn't really the worst thing in the world. It'd never be my primary viewing device, though.
I don't think the idea here is to use this as a primary viewing solution, but maybe on your lunch hour you can watch a tv show in mcdonalds while you eat, or bring some entertainment with you to a picnic or something.
Couple that with the less than stellar performance of web browsing on the DS, and I see no possible reason why anyone would want to tackle that headache.
Yes the building blocks are in place to support it, but the experience will be greatly diminished due to hardware constraints.
OTOH, while Sony's PSP hardware may be strong enough to support h.264 video services, I think their less than solid platform for PSN connectivity with the internet would diminish the potential there too.
I would see more potential out of an iPhone solution before any of these, the persistent 3G network, higher video resolution, more intuitive interface design.
Heck, skip it all together and put it out for the iPad and it would probably hit the sweet spot they're looking for.
Bingo.