Sony movie app comes to Xbox Live

Had a look last night, has potential but apart from the Three Stooges stuff, there was alot of dross on there.

Lots of sub par B-movies but despite not being that impressed with the initial content, at least its free from subscription costs which is never a bad thing,,

I am sick of all these tv apps on my 360 i tend to use it for GAMES.Plus if something is on telly i can turn the 360 off and huddle round the candle to save electricity and watch something on TV,lol.

Any further news when iPlayer is due?

No matter how many of these apps they add I'm mostly sticking with the ones I've always used on my PC but much prefer them on my big screen TV than my piddly little laptop.

I am sick of all these tv apps on my 360 i tend to use it for GAMES.Plus if something is on telly i can turn the 360 off and huddle round the candle to save electricity and watch something on TV,lol.

If you dont like it, then don't use it. Microsoft isn't forcing anyone to download the programs. They're optional. Personally i like having youtube and netflix on there. Can't really imagine what more they could offer the games side of things.

The focus that MS is putting on video apps and subscription services most certainly detracts from the games.

Crackle is good for The Tick (live action) and Star-ving (hilarious bad taste sitcom starring Bud from Married WIth Children)

The movie selection is beyond poor.

I am sick of all these tv apps on my 360 i tend to use it for GAMES.Plus if something is on telly i can turn the 360 off and huddle round the candle to save electricity and watch something on TV,lol.

If you dont like it, then don't use it. Microsoft isn't forcing anyone to download the programs. They're optional. Personally i like having youtube and netflix on there. Can't really imagine what more they could offer the games side of things.

I don't use it and i was being a bit pedantic hence the lol.If that is what you want to use your GAMES console for fair enough.I will continue to use my blu ray player and dvd instaed.

The focus that MS is putting on video apps and subscription services most certainly detracts from the games.

Crackle is good for The Tick (live action) and Star-ving (hilarious bad taste sitcom starring Bud from Married WIth Children)

The movie selection is beyond poor.

Bullshit. Sorry Shan, but it was BS when you first said it, and it is BS now. It doesn't detract from games in any way at all. You can argue that the general design of the dashboard does that, but that isn't down to it focussing on the media hub rather than the games, that's down to it just being a badly thought out dashboard. When you get down to it, you play games by opening the tray, putting in the game, closing the tray, the way it has always been, that hasn't changed. The new dashboard and MS currently promoting their media hub doesn't hurt that at all, further, to even suggest so is ridiculous. So you don't like the dashboard, that's fine, and you don't like that Microsoft trust that people understand how to play games and instead are promoting the multimedia that they are working hard to bring to us, thats fine too, but it still doesn't mean its detrimental to games. Frankly I'm astounded that after years of gaming that you need Microsoft to hold your hand and rmeind you how to simply play a game.

OK as for this app, am I the only one who finds it interesting that they've made a deal with SONY? Certainly raises some prospects. Lets go back to the recent X-box blu ray debate. I believe it was Jonty who suggested it wasn't likely because he didn't think Microsoft would want to put money in Sony's pockets for the Blu-ray, and yet here they are paying Sony to use their movie app....

OK as for this app, am I the only one who finds it interesting that they've made a deal with SONY? Certainly raises some prospects. Lets go back to the recent X-box blu ray debate. I believe it was Jonty who suggested it wasn't likely because he didn't think Microsoft would want to put money in Sony's pockets for the Blu-ray, and yet here they are paying Sony to use their movie app....

You actually beat me too it. I know the oft repeated argument that BR isn't solely Sony, but they are big enough player in the Blu ray camp that they would be able to block something they saw as loosing a competative edge. The fact they have already played nice together once has to be a good sign for anyone hoping the Gertrude has Blu ray.

OK as for this app, am I the only one who finds it interesting that they've made a deal with SONY? Certainly raises some prospects. Lets go back to the recent X-box blu ray debate. I believe it was Jonty who suggested it wasn't likely because he didn't think Microsoft would want to put money in Sony's pockets for the Blu-ray, and yet here they are paying Sony to use their movie app....

You actually beat me too it. I know the oft repeated argument that BR isn't solely Sony, but they are big enough player in the Blu ray camp that they would be able to block something they saw as loosing a competative edge. The fact they have already played nice together once has to be a good sign for anyone hoping the Gertrude has Blu ray.

Hey you can't start the gertrude thread in here,lol.

I'm not trying to start anything, I've even been referring to it as the Gertrude in the pub. Until they tell us the actual name I think it has a nicer ring than 720.

Hey you can't start the gertrude thread in here,lol

It's its codename, officially, you've read the facts.

The major criticism I have for all these apps is that when you select them from the dashboard, they download automatically. No page of additional info about the product, and then after looking through a very poor selection of films, programmes, etc, it's straight to deletion. Nothing put on there has so far been a keeper, I'd rather watch on my laptop than watching low-res streams blown up to hideous levels. I had been initially excited about having the facility to watch programmes at my leisure through the old xbox, as I can't afford sky+, but so far, so poor!

I downloaded this App yesterday - some of the advertised content is still not available (I tried the animated spiderman) and of those that are - I tried a couple - the quality is very poor!!!! especially noticeable on a 46"HD LCD TV. But I suppose it is FREE.

I also want to know what is happening with the BBC iPlayer app. Is it still coming and if so when? I thought it was due in January! It hasn't even been listed on the 'coming soon' part of the apps. also the coming soon part has now disappeared since crackle arrived!!

iPlayer is still coming. Nothing official to say on it, and I wouldn't expect it very soon, but it's definitely still coming.

I wouldn't read too much into Sony being on Xbox. Sony, not unlike Microsoft, is not particularly good at making its different departments play well together - when I was a tech writer, Sony Pictures was busy adding DRM limitations while the DVD drive division was creating ways to get round them. Plus, it would be insane to deliberately withold its back catalogue from a device as popular as the Xbox 360 - if you're running Sony Pictures, you want that audience and revenue, and stuff what Sony Computer Entertainment says.

I wouldn't go so far as to say Microsoft would never add Blu-Ray to Xbox, but it would be an odd decision - it would cost them money to make the drives, a chunk of it would go to Sony, and it would fly in the face of all the work they've done championing digital downloads. And I'm fairly sure that Blu-Ray as a format isn't an all-conquering sucess - although that's something I've been told rather than seen any figures on.

Also, the Crackle range is decidedly dodgy but I have been catching up with Jackie Chan Adventures. I have no justification for this.

While we love your dedication to the mag Jonty either you are working WAY too late, or you've got home and logged on to talk to us. Either way you need a hobby

:lol: I'm not trying to start anything, I've even been referring to it as the Gertrude in the pub. Until they tell us the actual name I think it has a nicer ring than 720.

I think even when they do name it proper and i get one i will still be crying with laughing and calling it gertrude.Thanks to bezza,lol.

iPlayer is still coming. Nothing official to say on it, and I wouldn't expect it very soon, but it's definitely still coming.

So much for early 2012 then....

I wouldn't go so far as to say Microsoft would never add Blu-Ray to Xbox, but it would be an odd decision - it would cost them money to make the drives, a chunk of it would go to Sony, and it would fly in the face of all the work they've done championing digital downloads. And I'm fairly sure that Blu-Ray as a format isn't an all-conquering sucess - although that's something I've been told rather than seen any figures on.

Personally I think they would need too add a blu-ray drive for the next console to offer HD movie content and playback if not for the added storage capability for games. I cannot at the moment see an alternative format - especially since HD DVD has died. I cannot see Microsoft having a Digital only format for games and I for one would not be interested if they did. I prefer to buy all my games on Disc for a number of reasons and have never/will never buy a game that I can buy on disc. The marketplace is ridiculously overpriced and retailers offer games a lot cheaper due to competition. My game collection also has resale value - something that digital games do not!!! So unless they stick with a DVD drive the only alternative seems to be blu-ray. Sony may have some ties to it but they are not the only company involved in its development.

Personally I think they would need too add a blu-ray drive for the next console to offer HD movie content and playback if not for the added storage capability for games. I cannot at the moment see an alternative format - especially since HD DVD has died. I cannot see Microsoft having a Digital only format for games and I for one would not be interested if they did. I prefer to buy all my games on Disc for a number of reasons and have never/will never buy a game that I can buy on disc. The marketplace is ridiculously overpriced and retailers offer games a lot cheaper due to competition. My game collection also has resale value - something that digital games do not!!! So unless they stick with a DVD drive the only alternative seems to be blu-ray. Sony may have some ties to it but they are not the only company involved in its development.

Ah but it would be a lot cheaper to sell the console without a bluray drive and just have some proprietary disc format. This way, we wont have to pay for the losses ms would incur by developing bluray stuff... plus there's the really slow disc read times.

Other hand though, what with a focus to a multimedia machine - its absence is odd and perhaps gives weight to an xbox media hub SKU (perhaps with bluray for films, along with all the current media stuff) releasing with the 'gaming' oriented SKU. Again I'm speculating, but I was right about the name so...

this is doing my head in, all these nice apps that i cant get in spudland ireland! ffs, i'm only 50 miles from the NI border and they get everything. sort it out MS, please!

this is doing my head in, all these nice apps that i cant get in spudland ireland! ffs, i'm only 50 miles from the NI border and they get everything. sort it out MS, please!

You guys get electricity!!?

It's free because no one in their right mind would pay for such utter rubbish!

The quality of the video is as bad as could be and i think i have only heard of one film on the entire app.

It's nice MS is making an attempt at widening its audience, but lets have some more useful apps please.

It's free because no one in their right mind would pay for such utter rubbish!

The quality of the video is as bad as could be and i think i have only heard of one film on the entire app.

It's nice MS is making an attempt at widening its audience, but lets have some more useful apps please.

if u go to crackle via a pc i HIGHLY recommend a websitcom called Star-ving. Ts incredibly poor taste but hilarious. one particular episode involves the main character drowning gilbert goddfrieds obese retarded son in a pool had me in stitches.

Says it all really...

Has anyone loaded up crackle lately? What's this porn identity on it?

Has anyone loaded up crackle lately? What's this porn identity on it?

Fly on the wall documentary about a woman in the porn industry and her two kids. Think the Osbournes with fake boobs.

Has anyone loaded up crackle lately? What's this porn identity on it?

Fly on the wall documentary about a woman in the porn industry and her two kids. Think the Osbournes with fake boobs.

Worth a watch then