Don’t use xbox extenders

Posted on September 17th, 2009

Yes this is a rant but it has useful information for those who don’t know. It is a classic case of why you can’t trust Microsoft with anything that they manage or host, even platform services. (think: playsforsure or those recently screwed by mesh)

So, Microsoft want you to spend your hard earned cash to buy big powerful machines that can run Vista or Windows 7 Ultimate so you can have a media pc. They also tout their xbox as the perfect extender … really? Then why the frack is it so damn hard to get content to play on the extenders and when finally netflix is announced they decide you have to be a gold member to use it. They also prevent the netflix media center running on the extender … you know – which makes perfect sense, why the fuck would I want movies on my extender anyway?

So you might think a gold membership isn’t so bad, erm well explain how you’re get it on 3 extenders? You have to buy 3 and so that’s a cool $150 a year just for Micro$oft. They works out now at just over $30 a month JUST to use Netflix on your xbox.

If you already have media center you should be able to use it to stream the freaking content, that is what is was supposed to do. What else are they going to conveniently block? It also raises the question why I can’t use my gold account across all house xboxes.

I sometimes wonder why I even bother using media center, it is poorly supported – there really is no internet content it can pull and the geniuses at Redmond decided to remove, yes remove the existing netflix support in Vista from Windows 7 … clap clap – now rumor has it  a better netflix component is coming to Windws 7 but why on earth would you remove the existing one …..

The lesson here is, an xbox is for playing games … period.

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