Xbox Live apps unlocked for non-Gold members this weekend
Fancy trying ESPN on your Xbox 360? Or maybe you just want to watch YouTube videos. Microsoft is hoping to sell you a Gold subscription with its new "Entertainment Unlocked" promotion.
Fancy trying ESPN on your Xbox 360? Or maybe you just want to watch YouTube videos. Microsoft's console has a number of entertainment apps, making it one of the most versatile media boxes for the living room. Unfortunately, all of these services, whether they're paid (a la Netflix) or free (a la Crackle) require a subscription to Xbox Live Gold.
So what if you're not willing to shell out $60 a year for Gold services? Microsoft is hoping to change your mind with its new "Entertainment Unlocked" promotion.
In the US, these are the apps that will be unlocked, starting Thursday, April 19th:
- CinemaNow
- Crackle
- Dailymotion
- EPIX
- ESPN
- HBO GO
- Hulu Plus
- iHeartRadio
- Last.fm
- MSN
- Netflix
- Syfy
- TMZ
- TODAY
- UFC
- Verizon
- VEVO
- Vudu
- Xfinity TV on Demand
- YouTube
Note that while all these apps are "unlocked," some have additional requirements, such as subscribing to a specific cable provider. Some services, like Netflix and Hulu Plus will offer free one month trials upon access--assuming you haven't previously received a trial.
The promotion ends on Monday, April 23rd, and unlike previous Gold free weekends, online multiplayer will not be enabled for non-Gold accounts.
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Fancy trying ESPN on your Xbox 360? Or maybe you just want to watch YouTube videos. Microsoft is hoping to sell you a Gold subscription with its new "Entertainment Unlocked" promotion.-
fuck MS. I have a PS3 for this...charge to let me access netflix, they can burn in hell. NEVER will I pay for Gold membership.
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Look at this motherfucker who can't even afford a liter of Gatorade a month.
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EH.:choke:..hm.hma.he.ho.hma.ha.ha.wha...air.. wt... who...wha... no...wai...
THESE Apps were all locked for GOLD membership ?
Are you freaking micro smelly kidding me ? Youtube ? Dailymotion ? GOLD ?
I can't believe it ... you would have to pay 60$ to watch youtube .. up until now... are you serious.
Well ... another point to check in my memory database of "microsoft's business practices in the console industry"
Obviously that's why they could survived the RROD repair loss and release-loss.
Expect that and much better on WiiU for free ... hopefully they don't surprise us in a bad way at E3. ... FAYV HUNDRED AND NAYNTI NAYN-
... US DALLRS
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MY US DALLRS!
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how old are you, son?
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Ruski, I'm prettys sure you're drunk durring the day, but here I go anyways. MS was the first to offer the media center game console thingy with the Xbox (whether they meant to exactly or not). Their base got used to the subscription model and voila, you got what you have today. Personally, I'm grateful that pressure from other devices has finally gotten them to allow this level of functionality for free over their network. Now Sony and Nintendo just have to up their game next gen to at least the 360's current online presence and we'll see them dropping a bunch more stuff to silver.
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Words to live by Loyd... words... to... live by.
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You guys are getting trolled so bad.
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Hah lol
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... emm talking about my mind.
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This isn't the same guy as "SmellX 3Shitty", is it?
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Hehe - nintendo is actually all about the games they have, and their philosophy tells them it has to be appropriate, professionaly and quality designed hardware that works well, that's why they will never offer thier games to some non-nintendo hardware.
The industry forced them to do this - as your point might be totally fine - it's all about the perception. The reality is that nintendo has to offer this things to survive and they just have to do it because some other company scores better sales because of it while a company like microsoft that doesn't necessairly understand the primary industry which is gaming - microsoft has zero creative/talent interest, it's all employees that do stuff there, directors and boss have only pure western dogshit capitalist background - bill gates is an evil elitist selling toxic vaccines to africa.
Nintendo's CEO Iwata was a game developer who founded and worked at HAL Labolatories, he made Kirby and the idea of Super Smash Bros. were one of his big hits. People and media go like crazy when they see Nintendo Stock dropping and that idiot investor wanting mario on iOS, while it's actually the current directors (iwata and miyamoto included) and Yamauchi family that own majority of the stock - so that apple investor won't be missed nor taken seriously as nintendo already re-confirmed recently that they have no intentions to expand to other platforms.
The legacy of nintendo is far stronger, far better, far longer and actually authentic / genuine talent, than any other gaming company in histroy of this planet. These are all facts if you want to check them your self - i am a humorous person but i don't post BS.
Just look - their DX is proprietary, they have a PC monopoly and in consoles, but it's also don't to the drivers that need to be open.
Good thing we have the people like John Carmack and Tim Sweeny who push the hardware manufacturers (asus,gigabyte,nvidia,intel,amd,and many memory RAM manufacturers) to get to transition to some open source and software driven hardware that doesn't require proprietary firmware, and unified memory. This will then FORCE microsoft to respond and their limited DX will be useless.-
I personally never cared about app store, and such kiddy features like social stuff ... i can do all that on PC and i don't need to be "ONLAYN" all day.
The very busy fast paced stlye of life that is in the west is the primary reason for the demand and importance for such features.-
So i won't really miss it and online doesn't really worry me - all these netflix and all that media media stuff - i don't watch movies at all and the ones i do very rarely - i was some worthwhile documentaries like Ray Mears Extreme survival which i have hooked up to PC share via samsung AllShare to connect to HDTV for streaming (so no need of a console at all) ... then there's all the top 5 shows from discovery and that's it i don't really watch TV at all otherwise :P
My biggest worry is the amount of RAM - which is the most unknown variable we have in the community i am discussing and reading. The minimal should be 1 GB but we don't quite agree with that since that won't enable games to be more scoped than old gen, we target 1.5 GB as the at least marker and in the line of being fine, but truly they need to stay afloat in long term and not have this crucial bottleneck in the next gen so 2 GB should be totally deserved and great.
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Also don't think i made that term up my self. ...
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Western%20Dog%20Shit
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/used-game-pach-attack/728746 (skip to last question, 5:00)-
Well it's on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7nfDwPNTXb8#t=304s
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Huh? It makes so much more sense to just use a PS3 if you have it.
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All of which I am able to get free through my bluray player and some of them through a Wii channel. Not to mention others will probably able to get these through any Smart TV or roku box. So it makes absolutely no sense to charge for something that isn't exclusive to your platform.
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I do have a Xbox360 and Gold Sub for gaming not for the entertainment apps. Every single one of those apps except for one or two is available free on other devices. That is pretty much a fact if you ever used them.
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It's Microsoft's way of making the Gold membership a 'value'. Nevermind the fact you've already paid for the apps(netflix) or they happen to be free(youtube) on any PS3, pc, or decent blu-ray player. It's really a dick move to gouge money from it's customers but this is an area MS is well versed at.
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I don't see it as any different than paying monthly for TiVo. Yes, I could get it for free on a Comcast DVR, but TiVo does it way, way better.
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The real reason you have to pay for Tivo is for the Electronic Program Guide updates.
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That's an unavoidable fee though. If you went with TiVo you'd still have to pay Comcast monthly for the CableCARD that you put in the TiVo. It's probably a little cheaper than the DVR but that still means that using TiVo costs more per month than using the cable-provided alternative.
Bottom line is you pay a premium to use TiVo even though it doesn't provide anything you can't do otherwise. It just does it better and more conveniently.-
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Oh wacky!
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I bought a 360 arcade for $129 specifically as a Netflix player. Boy that was a dumb move.
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Making people pay for this crap makes sense. Makeing people pay to connect to game servers not hosted by Microsoft makes none
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