barndog wrote:Marsupialized wrote:The Code is Almighty wrote:Don't all 360's have a hard drive, the difference in price being the size? Netflix is like 8 bucks a month. Xbox live I Think is about 30 for the year.That is fine, that'd be less than the asshole comcast cable, even if I had to buy a bigger hard drive to make it workYou might also consider looking into Apple TV. It's $99 - you can watch Netflix thru it. as well as a lot of other stuff. You also get a regular remote rather than trying to navigate stuff with the Xbox controllers. Requires an internet connection, but I think that's about it.Interesting, this apple TV looks interesting.I buy this 99 dollar box, I pay Netflix 8 bucks and month and that's it?

I don't like cable, and can't imagine paying $100-$150 or more a month for it. I don't have a TV, but I have a big display for my computer. I have an antenna for free over the air TV, and use an EyeTV USB thing for the rare times I want to record something. Between OTA, Netflix (streaming and DVDs), and the Web (Hulu etc), there's more than enough to watch.The new Comcast merger is heinous:http://www.npr.org/2011/01/19/133046229 ... lot-biggerOn the same day that President Obama launched a drive to identify what he referred to as excessive regulation of business, the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice ” both of which are defined by his appointments ” effectively abandoned more than a century of antitrust principles and approved one of the biggest corporate mergers in American history.Instead of regulating the telecommunications industry, the FCC's vote to approve Comcast's proposed acquisition of a majority stake in NBC Universal ” creating a conglomerate that will be the largest cable provider, the largest Internet provider and one of the largest producers of content in the United States ” represents the ultimate surrender to the demands of corporate America.Once we allow companies to become this powerful, the FCC does not regulate them, says Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. They regulate the FCC, says the senator.

We have Comcrap, which I hate because the phone-Internet-cable teevee package that was $99 a month for the first year is like $160 a month now, plus taxes? Something ridiculous anyway. Fuck them. But we have the catv on a lot, and use the phone for work and to call outside the US and needless to say I'm using the Internet like 20 hours a day and all... So I just am annoyed with their huge price increase after that initial year. Netflix, I dig. Its cheap enough, and we have been doing the 2 DVD + unlimited streaming thing for two years or so. Dig it. Before the fan in my laptop took a shit, we had the laptop hooked up to the teevee (plain old oldschool teevee I bought cheap like 10 years ago) and it was pretty decent. But even better is the Wii. I assume it's the same kinda thing with the xbox, but with the Wii, initially we had to request a free DVD from Netflix that, when we put it in the Wii, would allow us to log into our Netflix account and stream stuff and all. Since then, they created an app for the Wii, which we downloaded for free from the Nintendo store, and we don't even need the DVD. That's how we been watching for the past I dunno two months or something. It's great. Their streaming selection is quite decent. And if you get the one DVD or two DVD package, you can get the DVD only stuff which makes the selection way way better still. Hate comcast. Dig Netflix.

We've got a Blu-ray player that does Netflix streaming, along with Youtube and a few other services. It also has something called Vudu, so we can stream newly released movies if we want before they show up on Netflix Instant. I'd rather do that then get something from a video box at the grocery store.

I would so very much like to get rid of Comcast. Fuck them right in their stupid face. I already fired them for my Internet and got a nice 6mb DSL connection from AT&T, who are also assholes, but were cheaper and haven't given me any problems (yet).However, I live in a stupid condo building, and it's a long story, but we can only get Comcast, even though we don't get a discount. Such is my hatred for Comcast that I almost considered joining the condo board to rectify this situation, until I realized that joining a condo board is basically the opposite of what I ever thought I would do with my life, and I'd be stuck dealing with all of these assholes' water leak problems or some shit well after I may or may not have fixed the TV thing.If you don't care about watching live sports or seeing most shows the day they air, Netflix streaming is great and as was mentioned, can be accessed with an xbox, a wii, one of those roku boxes (which you can find really good deals on fairly often), or by just hooking up a computer to your TV. What I ended up doing was getting a desktop PC, a nice little HP that is sort of designed to be a home theater PC. It has a wifi card built in, a nice video card with an HDMI output, big hard drive, and lots of other nice little bells and whistles like a blu-ray drive. I figured that shit is moving very rapidly with streaming video technology, so I'd rather just get a computer and I could use the web browser on it or download whatever software I needed to do whatever the future holds. Sometimes with roku or xbox or whatever, you've got to wait a while until a firmware update is released before you can do cool stuff. Or the content provider wants to charge you an extra fee, even though you can access it free on a regular old web browser (as is the case with Hulu for instance).So yeah, if you have a way of hooking up a computer to your TV, that will work best. You can do more. But if you'd have to spend a bunch of money on a computer and you don't want to do that, either the xbox, a roku, or apple TV and Netflix is great, too.

You don't need a new hard drive just an Internet connection. You can play with our setup next time you're over.Also, check out apple tv.

You know, I'm pretty sure all you need is to run a wire to your xbox and get an xbox live subscription

Don't all 360's have a hard drive, the difference in price being the size? Netflix is like 8 bucks a month. Xbox live I Think is about 30 for the year.

Verge of Light wrote:Yeah, I really like my little Netflix box.Which box do you have? I am looking up Roku right now.

Yeah, I really like my little Netflix box. The fees are just $8 a month for unlimited streaming content. They have a pretty damned impressive selection too and it's constantly growing. They are supposedly switching to streaming-only (no discs) within a couple of years.Plus you gotta love the fact Netflix killed Blockbuster. A Blockbuster took over one of my favorite old video stores and BURNED ALL THE PORN. I had been praying for their death ever since. Thank you Netflix.