It was back in January when I last mentioned the rumor that Netflix’s online movies would be available through the Xbox 360. The rumor is officially reality. No HD yet, and for that matter Netflix has one tenth the movies online that it has on DVD — 10,000 vs. 100,000, according to their Q&A page.
How many choices are available to watch via a Netflix ready device?
There are over 10,000 instant watching choices, but very few are new releases. So instant watching is a great supplement to our DVD catalog of 100,000 titles, but it is not a replacement. You will want to use both. Instant movies and TV episodes give you maximum spontaneity and DVDs give you maximum choice.
This is nevertheless a welcome development. It’s the direction that home video should and must take. How it will all shake out competing with video on demand from the cable operators will be interesting to see.
With all of these options maybe I should watch more movies and do less blogging? I can’t quit running, or I’d turn into a blubby hubby, sitting on the couch!
No! not less blogging . .. except about Canine minus six!
So many movies, so little time! I had a sudden flash of Burgess Meredith out in the post-apocalyptic world. “Time enough at last!” he cries gleefully, as he encounters the ruins of the huge library, and all thousands of books. Of course, your glasses couldn’t fall off and break, because your corrective lenses are IN YOUR EYES!
We watch very little TV here. Molly and I went to see “Wall-E” a second time on Saturday, which is really rare for us. We saw “The Incredibles” twice, too. In “Wall-E” the survivors of Earth’s demise live in a huge ship orbiting the planet. They lie on floating lounges and are all obese. Holographic computer screens sit right in front of their noses. It’s supposed to be 700 years in the future, but I think we’re practically there now!