Last week I got the xbox 360 update which included streaming netflix. Here is a news release about it. The way it works is if you have an Xbox Live Gold account and a Netflix account you can download a little applet (about 3 Mb) and then go to Netflix on your xbox 360 and stream some movies. If you have decent bandwidth like I do the picture quality is pretty decent. Unfortunately you can't watch all Netflix movies this way, and you also have to browse Netflix via your web browser and add supported movies to your "instant queue". But they will show up on your xbox 360 about 5 seconds after you add them to your netflix instant queue in your browser (I tested it). So overall it is a good example of two services "leveraging their synergies". Some improvements I would suggest include:
1. Having all Netflix movies available for streaming.
2. Allow users to browse the movies from the xbox 360.
1. Having all Netflix movies available for streaming.
2. Allow users to browse the movies from the xbox 360.
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