Netflix is taking the direct streaming content service by storm offering it on a multitude of platforms. This service is a free content service that delivers movies and TV shows via devices like a Roku set-top box or XBox 360.
And now finally they are getting Playstation 3 users on board!
Sony and Netflix have announced that they are teaming to make thousands of movies and TV episodes from Netflix available to be streamed instantly to TVs via the PlayStation 3.
Netflix expects to begin streaming via the PS3 system next month at no additional cost to Netflix members in the United States who have a PS3 system.
I bought my PS3 purely to kill two birds with one stone. First was to get a next gen gaming system for myself (kids got the Wii) as well as a BluRay player.
Once I got the unit, I found out that much like the 360, I could stream media from my computer making it the central hub of my living room entertainment system.
When I found out about the Roku set-top box to stream Netflix content, I was so Jazzed. And that you could do it with your 360 was interesting but I didn’t have a 360.
And then I found out you couldn’t get it in Canada. (If anyone knows a work around I would pay the service fee for a US Netflix account gladly) So while I find this all fine and dandy, and a step in the right direction for customized entertainment content delivery, I am really hoping that one day my grand country catches up with this technology!
That’s really awesome that you can do that but it means nothing to me if you can’t do it out of Canada. Why must us Canadian be behind on things?
The CRTC, Bell and Roger. That’s why.
Oops sorry Jeremy K. Just read your previous response. I guess mine was just repeating what you said.
I’ve been streaming the Netflix movies to my PS3 for nearly a year now using PlayOn. It’s a media server you run on your PC that allows streaming of Netflix, Hulu, and movies/music/pictures stored on the PC. It has done me no wrong, but I am curious to see how the official Netflix for the PS3 will compare.
I had netflix for a while, the movies in the mail was useless to me, until they start offering the majority of their catalog online for streaming it’s useless to me. Last I knew they only offered %10 of their catalog for streaming. when I had the service I ended up watching all the streaming content I was interested in in about a month.
Also I heard next year. Netflix is planning on expanding their service over seas. So Canada will probably get it as well.
In the mean time you could try and make a second US account on your PS3 and see if you can stream Netflix that way. I don’t know if that will work or not.
I made a Japanese account in order to download the Yakuza 3 demo which worked fine.
Canada already has Netflix, but due to some limitations of the CRTC or perhaps just spite, the streaming service is not available here.
One less reason MS has to justify the yearly cost of Live.
seriously that’s why i bought a PS3, solely for the free online play