Surreality TV

Metropolis is now available via NetFlix streaming!

Whooo!

Other than the WiFi bridge losing connectivity at random (sometimes it's solid for hours; sometimes it goes after twenty minutes, but it's a considerable lateral distance from the AP and on another floor) and then NOT REESTABLISHING A CONNECTION (which is not the 360's fault), I'm really liking the 360's networking bits. Vista Ultimate happily installed an MCE connector. Even easier than that, I've turned on Vista's Media Sharing and I don't even need an MCE session. I just go to My Music in the console, connect to my machine, and play my entire MP3 collection from the 360's console player, which puts up Cthugha like patterns to the music on the screen while it plays, which is pretty nifty. I'm assuming that any video I add to WMP's library will also just show up like magic, which is something I intend to play with later.

It let me connect to Windows Live Messenger in the console and I sent requests to all you peeps I have as Messenger friends who also have XBL Gamer Tags.

I watched part of Young Frankenstein last night via NetFlix streaming on the HD, which is Fucking Awesome.

Oh, and it plays games too.

Edit: Confirmed...it has access to all video and pictures in the WMP Library as well.

Other than the WiFi bridge losing connectivity at random (sometimes it's solid for hours; sometimes it goes after twenty minutes, but it's a considerable lateral distance from the AP and on another floor) and then NOT REESTABLISHING A CONNECTION (which is not the 360's fault), I'm really liking the 360's networking bits. Vista Ultimate happily installed an MCE connector. Even easier than that, I've turned on Vista's Media Sharing and I don't even need an MCE session. I just go to My Music in the console, connect to my machine, and play my entire MP3 collection from the 360's console player, which puts up Cthugha like patterns to the music on the screen while it plays, which is pretty nifty. I'm assuming that any video I add to WMP's library will also just show up like magic, which is something I intend to play with later.

It let me connect to Windows Live Messenger in the console and I sent requests to all you peeps I have as Messenger friends who also have XBL Gamer Tags.

I watched part of Young Frankenstein last night via NetFlix streaming on the HD, which is Fucking Awesome.

Oh, and it plays games too.

Edit: Confirmed...it has access to all video and pictures in the WMP Library as well.

Found in my email this morning:

Important News Regarding Netflix Profiles

Dear Jamie,

We wanted to let you know we will be eliminating Profiles, the feature that allowed you to set up separate DVD Queues under one account, effective September 1, 2008.

Each additional Profile Queue will be unavailable after September 1, 2008. Before then, we recommend you consolidate any of your Profile Queues to your main account Queue or print them out.

While it may be disappointing to see Profiles go away, this change will help us continue to improve the Netflix website for all our customers.

If you have any questions, please go to http://www.netflix.com/Help?p_faqid=3962 or call us anytime at 1 (888) 638-3549. We apologize for any inconvenience.

- The Netflix Team

How the fuck is this an improvement? I'm losing functionality and convenience.