Comments on: Bravia Gets Netflix. What About Playstation 3?

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By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:12:26 +0000

I hope PS3 gets netflix soon. I’m a 360 owner and I love the integrated netflix service. I believe that the more devices that stream netflix the more movie studios will include new releases on the streaming service which is good for everyone. Right now the biggest issue with the service is lack of big titles. Don’t get me wrong, the selection they have is great but you have to do a lot of digging to find the gems.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:00:04 +0000

check out http://www.themediamall.com/playon for a product called PlayOn. It works pretty well and supports Hulu, CBS, CNN, ESPN. The netflix part is the winner for me.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:50:57 +0000

I wouldn’t say it would take serious “pride-swallowing” for Sony to put Netflix on the PS3. It only makes sense, really, and would be a welcome addition.

By: Brock Batsell

Brock Batsell — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:32:25 +0000

According to the MS press release at the time, they have an exclusive contract for game consoles:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/jul08/07-14instantstreampr.mspx

No idea how long it lasts (perhaps a year, and we’ll be hearing more about PS3 on July 14th? or whenever the contract went into effect through service activation), but I’d say that’s the bigger obstacle to Netflix on PS3 than Sony’s posturing. And a streaming disc would have to use the Java runtime (BD-J) built in to Blu-ray, though there would be DRM obstacles (and perhaps infrastructure obstacles now that they’ve switched to Silverlight). Totally doable, but much less likely now that they have an open relationship with Sony.