Netflix on PS3 Supports HD Streaming, Dedicated Application Coming “At Some Point”
Details forward the sudden PlayStation 3 support of Netflix instant watch streaming are quiet sketchy — as noted yesterday, you’ll need a disc in subordinate class to access Netflix on PS3 for the time being, but it choose be completely free. G4tv.com spoke with Netflix VP of in~d communications Steve Swasey and learned that Netflix on PS3 does indeed hold up HD streaming. Not only that, but the entire streaming catalog (i.e. everything you have power to access on your PC or Xbox 360) will be available ~ the sake of PS3 users.
As for that disc you need to use to admittance Netflix on PS3 (order yours here), you’ll be free to restrain and use it whenever you wish. It’s obviously not taken in the character of convenient as the Xbox 360’s setup, which has a dedicated putting on for Netflix watching (pictured above), but Swasey claims that a like type of “embedded solution” is coming “at some point.” G4 couldn’t learn Swasey to comment on whether using a disc to enable Netflix food was a way of getting around an exclusivity deal that they bear with Microsoft, which suggests that the aforementioned Netflix application will regard to wait until any such contract expires, rather than simply releasing one time it’s ready.
The Netflix-enabling discs will be shipping formerly next month for all Netflix members who order one.
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