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Amazon Prime Video Streaming Now On X360

ugh... you know they say netflix now accounts for a majority of the bandwith used online, but a big part of that has to be the use of consoles to watch.

the xbox can eat up 13GB+ PER DAY if you watch for 8 hours or so. its crazy, but i hear the reason is that consoles need netflix streamed to them uncompressed because they dont have the processing hardware that most pc's have today. i havent really watched how much my pc consumes, but i know its not 13GB per day
 
Selection on Instant Video is rather meh... and 3rd party apps are still limited to 720p on the 360. On a 60" HDTV, none of these "all you can eat" streaming services are really all that great.
 
wirednuts said:
ugh... you know they say netflix now accounts for a majority of the bandwith used online, but a big part of that has to be the use of consoles to watch.

the xbox can eat up 13GB+ PER DAY if you watch for 8 hours or so. its crazy, but i hear the reason is that consoles need netflix streamed to them uncompressed because they dont have the processing hardware that most pc's have today. i havent really watched how much my pc consumes, but i know its not 13GB per day
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That's just... dumb.
 
Netflix and Amazon are fine on my 50" 1080p DLP. Not blu-ray quality of course but for a lot of movies and TV shows it doesn't matter.

It's too bad you probably need Live Gold for this, I only use my 360 for single-player so I don't pay the Live Gold tax.
 
Skel said:
There a big difference in content between amazon and netflix?
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I have both, and Netflix still has a much larger selection than the Prime free content.

Be careful browsing the instant video store at Amazon, most of the recent stuff is not free with Prime, it's still $2-3 (SD / HD) per episode for TV shows.
 
Thank christ. I can now smash my POS Sony Blu-Ray player into the wall. I only used it for Amazon VOD and even for that it was an exercise in awfulness.
 
So with the Xbox you have to pay extra to stream services you are already paying for? Nice! M$ is so lame in this regard.
Plenty of other options for Amazon.

And Netflix sucks ass. They have shit for movie content. The only thing they have is TV reruns. Why the f--- would I want to watch reruns of shows I didn't want to watch for free on TV the first time?

Amazon prime is an overall better deal.
 
gar655 said:
So with the Xbox you have to pay extra to stream services you are already paying for? Nice! M$ is so lame in this regard.
Plenty of other options for Amazon.

And Netflix sucks ass. They have shit for movie content. The only thing they have is TV reruns. Why the f--- would I want to watch reruns of shows I didn't want to watch for free on TV the first time?

Amazon prime is an overall better deal.
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ive been watching married with children. most of those episodes i was too young to watch when they aired. i love netflix... ive also been watching breaking bad, never seen it! cool show.

prime is good too. i agree they have better movies. and you cant beat the shipping deals that it includes!
 
gar655 said:
So with the Xbox you have to pay extra to stream services you are already paying for? Nice! M$ is so lame in this regard.
Plenty of other options for Amazon.

And Netflix sucks ass. They have shit for movie content. The only thing they have is TV reruns. Why the f--- would I want to watch reruns of shows I didn't want to watch for free on TV the first time?

Amazon prime is an overall better deal.
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I much prefer rewatching TV shows over movies these days. I don't have the attention span for movies anymore.
 
gorcorps said:
I much prefer rewatching TV shows over movies these days. I don't have the attention span for movies anymore.
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youre not the only one. almost everyone i know who likes netflix watches old tv shows... or reruns of family guy. netflix always pushed to get more tv content, and everyone questioned why, but its clear they were right.
 
wirednuts said:
maybe it is? i swear to lord i read a whole article about consoles eating up more bandwidth then pc's... but i cant find anything to back that now. youre probably right, its a dumb idea.
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Usage patterns may mean consoles use more bandwidth than the average PC, but I guarantee you Netflix isn't sending different streams to consoles. Modern consoles have plenty of power to decode.
 
wirednuts said:
ugh... you know they say netflix now accounts for a majority of the bandwith used online, but a big part of that has to be the use of consoles to watch.

the xbox can eat up 13GB+ PER DAY if you watch for 8 hours or so. its crazy, but i hear the reason is that consoles need netflix streamed to them uncompressed because they dont have the processing hardware that most pc's have today. i havent really watched how much my pc consumes, but i know its not 13GB per day
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8 hours of content per day, and it consumes 13GB:

13GB * 8 = 104Gb
8 hours = 28,800 seconds
104/28,800 = 0.0036 Gbps * 1024 = 3.69 Mbps bitrate

I find it believable that Netflix would stream at ~3.5 Mbps (Wiki says 2.6 - 3.8 Mbps for HD content). However, 3.5Mbps is a helluva lot less bitrate than HD-DVDs (360), Blurays (PS3), and the Zune Marketplace content (more like 11 Mbps, iirc); all of which the PS3/360 playback just fine.

It's not an issue of processing power. The streams are compressed, like for any other viewer. If you're watching 8 hours of Netflix on your PC, you likely are consuming 13GB per day.

wirednuts said:
maybe it is? i swear to lord i read a whole article about consoles eating up more bandwidth then pc's... but i cant find anything to back that now. youre probably right, its a dumb idea.
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You probably read something like this article.

Netflix consumes about 1/3 of all bandwidth, and majority bandwidth consumption has shifted slightly from PCs to consoles and other set-top box devices.
 
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Gooberlx2 said:
8 hours of content per day, and it consumes 13GB:

13GB * 8 = 104Gb
8 hours = 28,800 seconds
104/28,800 = 0.0036 Gbps * 1024 = 3.69 Mbps bitrate

I find it believable that Netflix would stream at ~3.5 Mbps (Wiki says 2.6 - 3.8 Mbps for HD content). However, 3.5Mbps is a helluva lot less bitrate than HD-DVDs (360), Blurays (PS3), and the Zune Marketplace content (more like 11 Mbps, iirc); all of which the PS3/360 playback just fine.

It's not an issue of processing power. The streams are compressed, like for any other viewer. If you're watching 8 hours of Netflix on your PC, you likely are consuming 13GB per day.



You probably read something like this article.

Netflix consumes about 1/3 of all bandwidth, and majority bandwidth consumption has shifted slightly from PCs to consoles and other set-top box devices.
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Never forget that the bandwidth cap applies to families so when you've got 4 people using the same connection, it's quite easy for it to get "used" up.
 
dagamer34 said:
Never forget that the bandwidth cap applies to families so when you've got 4 people using the same connection, it's quite easy for it to get "used" up.
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No doubt. Comcast is working on increasing their minimum cap to 300GB per month (and then enforcing pay tiers), and they're one of the more generous ISPs. So that's 10GB per day available, or ~3.25 2-hour HD movies per day through Netflix.

In addition to other bandwidth sucking activities (ESPN3, torrents, browsing youtube, whatever), it's definitely easy to see how a family full of teenagers (or a group of roommates) might have a hard time not surpassing their cap.
 
side note- thank god for these legal streaming services that will FORCE isp's to upgrade their backbone and eliminate caps. i have no sympathy for any provider who isnt planning on laying a shitload more fiber in the coming years.
 
wirednuts said:
youre not the only one. almost everyone i know who likes netflix watches old tv shows... or reruns of family guy. netflix always pushed to get more tv content, and everyone questioned why, but its clear they were right.
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It's more of a case of limited/greatly reduced movie content forcing Netflix users to watch TV shows.

Not more people wanting to watch TV so they pushed to get more. The movie studios wanted more control so Netflix pushed TV as its their only option now to keep subscribers.

I am no longer one of them. A once great service turned to shit in less than a year.
 
That's odd, I still have a decent number of movies to watch in my Netflix instant queue. Different tastes I guess.

It's true that Starz said no to being paid $300+ million for their content so the Starz movies are gone, but I can still get them on disc.
 
This is cool I guess but does anyone really watch stuff on Amazon Prime? I wish i could "give" away that feature on my account. I never use it.
 
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