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MG Siegler
why does it take like an hour to get a rental on xbox live while apple tv can get it already right away?
July 19, 2008
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Joost Schuur, sean percival, Susan Beebe and 6 other people liked this
One is an Apple product, one is a Microsoft product. Any questions?
- Louis Gray
its actually been well over an hour now, and still no option to play at 30% done, it makes me wonder how they'll do the netflix 'watch instantly' thing...
- MG Siegler
It's buggy as all hell on the xbox. Blogs keep touting this as the next greatest thing but I don't think any of them have actually tried running netflix on the xbox. I spoke with netflix and they have even said they recommend against it bc media center does not properly communicate with their servers causing accounts to lock up.
- Brandon
Louis explained it the best it can be.
- Parth Awasthi
Peter Dawson adds: http://peterdawson.blogspot.com/2008...
- Louis Gray
Different file compression techniques is my guess. You probably won't get to watch until it hits 70 or 75% downloaded.
- Kevin C. Tofel
I'm happy with my PS3 rentals and the overall process of shopping in their store. Yeah, it's not Netflix or Apple TV, but hey, rentals are disposable.
- Eric Rice
Louis nailed it!!
- Susan Beebe
Do you use both products on the same connection, or are you only guessing Apple is better? XBox Live rentals are typically ready in 3 minutes or less in my house (No fancy connection, 3Mbps cable, in Idaho where infrastructure sucks and choice of broadband is very limited.)
- Wade Dorrell