Netflix has just reached a $1 billion deal wi Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM to stream it’s entire fill library beginning September 1.

Yes yes yes yes yes yes!!!! As Tron’s Bit would say.

I have long wanted Netflix to put all of it’s titles up for streaming. I’d even pay more money for that service (oh dear, did I just say that out loud???).

Netflix is a company that gets it. True, they end up being more profitable, saving money on postage for films we can stream from home rather than be mailed out; but, they’ve long know that streaming content (films, tv shows) is much more user friendly for the movie watching public at large.

For movie connoisseurs like me, this won’t stop me from buying those geekalicious genre films, as I dig the extras nearly as much as the film itself. But for flicks I just want to see and move on from (like 99% of the rest of you), this is GREAT news. Hopefully, the other studios will follow suit soon (though they might have to bring Disney along kicking and screaming).
If you’d like to read the AP news story, click the title link above.

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Our buddy WolfmanK has this for us on the new XBox Live Update over on technologyviewer.com

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Hurry run home and get it kiddies, it should update just by connecting to Xbox Live and voila the new Xbox Dashboard complete with all the cool announcements from E3, right? errr no.

It’s the new dashboard with the new improved Netflix integration but that’s about it.

Twitter integration, Facebook, Last.Fm? uhh no, those are coming “later this year” Boooo!

So I guess this update just lays down the framework for that stuff, and gives you the ability to watch a movie partially blocked by the silhouette of your buddies avatar… :(

Don’t get me wrong updaqtes are good, and in this case unavoidable, but I don’t like waiting for all the cool stuff that I saw at the E3 event, and most of that is still “coming soon”

amazon.com: Xbox 360 Console

 Sorry to see that more wasn’t included this time around.  But perhaps this is laying the groundwork for the fall update.

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