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Was about to post that. If someone needed proof that Sony as a company is bad :p it's this. **** them.

Oh come on, people, if Microsoft owned a publishing company like Sony does, they'd do the same thing.

Besides, the company responsible for this, although owned by sony, operates almost entirely independantly. There's still Sony-owned IP's on the 360.

Oh come on, people, if Microsoft owned a publishing company like Sony does, they'd do the same thing.

Besides, the company responsible for this, although owned by sony, operates almost entirely independantly. There's still Sony-owned IP's on the 360.

I doubt it. Generally companies that are competing in one aspect of business are perfectly happy working together on others. Sony's Colombia Pictures isn't competing with the Xbox 360 so there's no reason for this.

-Spenser

Actually they ARE competing now. Don't forget, Sony launched their own video marketplace just after E3.

No. The Console divisions of both companies are competing. That's it. Sony's movie divisions are not competing with anything of Microsofts and it doesn't make sense to say that they are in competition over this. Why would Sony pull that from the system. They can offer their **** up on both video marketplaces and it doesn't even matter which one someone buys it from - Sony gets money off of it.

-Spenser

Actually they ARE competing now. Don't forget, Sony launched their own video marketplace just after E3.

thats not columbia though.

As said, generally, companies are willing to work together unless their competing with each other in that specific area.

Its why toshiba and sony were working together with the cell, but fighting each other with HDDVD and Bluray at the same time.

Oh come on, people, if Microsoft owned a publishing company like Sony does, they'd do the same thing.

Besides, the company responsible for this, although owned by sony, operates almost entirely independantly. There's still Sony-owned IP's on the 360.

Kushan don't post sensible things, you know the only acceptable reply is to say "**** Sony".

Get with the times :rolleyes:

It's not ideal for 360 owners no, but it's hardly suprising. Nintendo recently blocked Goldeneye, a single game, from even getting to MS.

For now, however, Sony Pictures Entertainment films available for streaming through Netflix — including “Superbad,” “We Own The Night” and others — will remain blocked on Xbox 360, until Sony says otherwise.

Some are available, maybe others will come.

Hey guys, THE NXE IS OUT!

Well, sort of! If you installed the "Leaked" update, you can NOW connect back to live and download the rest of it, the restriction has been lifted. Apparently things are going slow, it's possible they haven't allocated server bandwidth yet or it's just going to get worse come the official release, either way I'd advise people to get stuck in NOW!

Kushan don't post sensible things, you know the only acceptable reply is to say "**** Sony".

Get with the times :rolleyes:

It's not ideal for 360 owners no, but it's hardly suprising. Nintendo recently blocked Goldeneye, a single game, from even getting to MS.

Some are available, maybe others will come.

Make no mistake about it. If the shoes were on the other foot then all the same. People would be **** Microsoft just as well and you know it. So don't even try to play that card. :p

Make no mistake about it. If the shoes were on the other foot then all the same. People would be **** Microsoft just as well and you know it. So don't even try to play that card. :p

Microsoft don't own any movie studios.

Just seems like they want their own movies exclusive to their system.

I don't believe it's the case for renting movies on marketplace, it's just Netflix right?

edit: I read it properly

"As watching instantly becomes a more prominent part of the Netflix service, our goal is to have all of our streaming content licensed for all of our partner devices. We're doing well in this area, but it will take some time before we fully achieve that goal. Today, titles regularly come in and out of license and there is a natural ebb and flow to what we have on license at any given point in time. In the case of Xbox 360, a few hundred titles are temporarily unavailable to be streamed via the Xbox game console. Those titles are still available to be watched on subscribers' computers and on TVs via other partner devices, and we hope they'll be licensed for Xbox 360 shortly."

Licensing between Sony and Netflix it is, but only to the 360.

In all likliness, it's probably more due to a ToS condition between Sony and Netflix regarding their competitors. Even though they may not (currently) directly compete, chances are someone, somewhere fired off a legal notice and they've taken them off while they renegotiate.

Microsoft don't own any movie studios.

Just seems like they want their own movies exclusive to their system.

I don't believe it's the case for renting movies on marketplace, it's just Netflix right?

I don't know if you've purposefully ignored my point or just didn't get it, but what I was saying was that if the tables were turned and Microsoft did own a movie studio and Sony made an agreement with a movie distributor to offer their services on their console and Microsoft were to disallow such distribution that people would be angry at Microsoft all the same. Of course, this is all hypothetical because Microsoft doesn't own a movie studio, etc ...

In all likliness, it's probably more due to a ToS condition between Sony and Netflix regarding their competitors. Even though they may not (currently) directly compete, chances are someone, somewhere fired off a legal notice and they've taken them off while they renegotiate.

I'm sure that will happen as well. Sony is simply going to ask for more money and all we can hope for is that NetFlix agrees. When/if that does happen, I will definitely be getting a NetFlix subscription.

Well, sort of! If you installed the "Leaked" update, you can NOW connect back to live and download the rest of it, the restriction has been lifted. Apparently things are going slow, it's possible they haven't allocated server bandwidth yet or it's just going to get worse come the official release, either way I'd advise people to get stuck in NOW!

Hmm...I've been patiently waiting for this, but I guess there's no point in waiting anymore. Was I right in thinking that you could install the update VIA thumb drive? If so, then I'll finally be joining the club tonight.

Extract the rar so you have a folder called $systemupdate, put that FOLDER on a USB thumb drive, so you have X:\$systemupdate with a file inside that folder.

Then just plug it into your 360 and when you turn it on, it'll ask you to update. It wont brick your system unless you do something silly (like turn it off mid-update). All these updates are signed by Microsoft, there's no way to create a "bad" one that the 360 will install.

Hey guys, THE NXE IS OUT!

Well, sort of! If you installed the "Leaked" update, you can NOW connect back to live and download the rest of it, the restriction has been lifted. Apparently things are going slow, it's possible they haven't allocated server bandwidth yet or it's just going to get worse come the official release, either way I'd advise people to get stuck in NOW!

I can confirm this to be true! I just installed the update from my flash drive and when I signed into my account, it prompted me to update.

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