Gamasutra reports an interesting new job listing at Netflix seeking an “Engineering Leader — Gaming Platforms.” The applicant is expected to have experience developing and testing media rich applications, and should be prepared to “rapidly prototype and iterate on a variety of platforms.”
What do you guys think? Is Netflix entering the video game streaming world or is Netflix movie streaming coming to other consoles, such as the PS3? Considering the relative success and partnership with the Xbox 360, it would not be surprising if the company expands its service to other customers. Netflix on the PS3 would be an amazing add-on, it’s the only thing I use my Xbox 360 for nowadays, so lets hope it happens and Sony/Netflix do it right.
i think sony shouldn’t allow it sony
Uh…it’s obviously going to be movie streaming. Honestly, I don’t know how you could have missed it.
Sony needs this. Vegeta, you’re an idiot.
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck this would be good.
surly most people on this ps3 hax site dont care about paying for streaming movies when you can get them free of the net?
Too bad ISP’s are thinking about limiting usage for your monthly bandwidth. I’m sure streaming videos from Netflix would eat up that allowable bandwidth very quickly.
They could of signed a contract with someone like Creative too, to implement an embedded solution..who knows.
It could also be the next best thing in streaming porn.
YOUR DEAD ON THERE FOR THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE gotti, BUT IM ON UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH AND A 16 MEG CONECTION, WICH IS CONSTANTLY DOWNLOADING. IF MY ISP (O2) TRY LIMITING ME AL JUS TELL THEM T F**K OFF AND GO ELSEWHERE.
Less cap lock, more calming the fuck down. For the most part using mega upload and stuff like that is easier. Just find a good site like that instead.
Though this would be a cool feature. Heh, maybe the next update wont be crap after all.
ISP were thinking of limiting that stuff…but they didn’t really do it…after all, they know that if they did it, they would suddenly lose a lot of customers in that area…so, the real Q is: would you have to upgrade your internet connection just to stream movie frm NetFlix or just go to your local Blockbuster and rent the movie instead?
cuz frankly, i find it faster just to head to the nearest blockbuster and rent the movie than streaming it…
beside, PSN already has movie you can temporary buy or rent and watch…why would you want to add NetFlix to it?
u can dvdrip from blockbusters too
i got the best idea for ps3 to become usefull and its written all over this website LITERALLY (how about we HACK THE DAMN CONSOLE)
then get to it, and hack it. 10 trillion other dedicated hackers can’t get it hacked.
well i dunno i heard something different i heard that all hackers just wanna group with themselves and not share any secrets and basically once hackers find something out odds are the other group already progressed further then that which sucks because it hurts all of us which sucks :(
of course thats the case, thats why people try and hack. to put there tag all over it.
I call bullshit.
That is retarded. Look up the PS3 specs. It IS A LOGISTICAL NIGHTMARE TO HACK. It has one cell processor dedicated to checking all the code for the start up of the system. It can’t be accessed by games or exploits. Any code that is messed with causes the PS3 to reject it’s start up. Then you need to contact Sony, use a warranty, or throw it out.
It’s like fucking Fort Knox. It (as of time of writing) can’t be cracked. If that code changes you’re fucked, the sums won’t check out, you remove that one processor it wont start, it just can’t be done.
The only realistic way is to get a new cell processor, tweak it to act similar to the old one and hope to hell a swap will work. But even then whose to say the code itself doesn’t have a safe guard to prevent this new processor from working properly. The PS3 is a tech powerhouse, and Sony truly out did themselves. But I doubt that anyone with ever really hack one of these anytime soon. The only really good system to hack currently is the PSP. The 360 one’s are usually monitored well, and M$ is liable to royally bitchslap you with a lawsuit if you are caught pirating.
Also a few fun tidbits I realized while writing this, the only really common hacks are usually emulation, game rips, and various utilities for the system and the PC. Emulation is nice, but is easier on a PC, which is necessary to do the hack the system in the first place. I guess my point is besides the PSP, you are just moving to a different room to run an emulator. A Blu Ray game has about 40 gigs of info burned into it (including some dummy data of course)… but the highest HD the PS3 comes with is a 160 Gig (Uncharted Special edition pack). So if you really have the funds and time to back up, purchase, install, format, and restore data on a HD…. Then rent, insert, wait, rip for hours on end, then play a game… It was so much easier to just buy the game. Also where the hell would you go about downloading a *reliable* ISO that is 40 fucking Gigs? Without a hiccup messing up the file? Lastly Sony released it with the other OS, also the controllers and PSeye have windows drivers already. Any other apps would be useless. A calculator? A planner? What more could you really want (besides the wishlist that was the rumored 2.7o update)? The chat function is Skypish, messaging doubles as a MSNish thing, over clocking a PS3 really serves no purpose (as just properly cleaning a disk yields far better play), you can use Portals to make some PS3 browser issues less annoying… So I can’t think of a decent app to want on a PS3.
I state this, and ask this in full anticipation of a shitstorm, but I really must know…. What do we want out of hacking this? Honestly?
10 trillion?? lol people have jobs and shit to get on with, attempted hacking will only be a hobbie of few (hundred maybe??)!
…sarcasm… >_>
How do I get this Waninkoko usb loader onto the ps3
this site is turning into a review site!
dat the damned truth…beside…there only been exploit…
and what with sony keeping their scripting a secret…it not a surprised that it hasn’t been hacked like x360 has…but then, x360 only had wat? 1 update so far? while sony kept dicated to it?
Go all to sleep with NETFLIX, is old tech movie, i prefer HD rip all the way, is a shame really, they cant sleep without f…k new service online for kids. We want the ps3 to be hacked, not news about weather or wii motion come to 360 and others. Let me guess the next BIG news is ps3 price drop??? We want a cheap machine, but then we complain about lack of memory or AA.
HAHA i like reading what u Sony geeks put on here! Ps3 sucks and so does Xbox! -SEGA all the way!!-
sega is owned by sony
Netflix is stupid for the Ps3, we come to this site for hacks and hopes for 1 day some one will make a ps3 game loader (yea right!) so that we may make backups and download games. I’m sure most already do this with movies. its all the same.
It is all old movies xbox gives this for free and it sucks no hd just shit you don`t want to see ps3 sucks
You could already stream Netflix on to your PS3 with PlayOn already.
I know this is close to a month old, but I should mention that netflix has been developing a streaming disc for the wii for quite some time (read: did a survey from netflix back in february on buying a wii disc from netflix to stream movies to my wii).
I’m sure wii is their priority, but would imagine streaming to come to the PS3 after the wii is out of the way.
been streaming netflix with PlayOn for months now. Old news.