Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows
brot@feddit.org 6 days agoWhich is totally a failure of Microsoft. People have their Xbox connected to their TV. They have an account and they have their payment information maintained there. And Microsoft can’t make the simple proposal of “Hey, this device you have connected to your TV and where you are playing games on, you can also use it to watch movies and series”
MangoCats@feddit.it 6 days ago
PS3 was a 1080p capable device connected to our (new in 2007) 1080p living room TV, the only 1080p device for almost a year. It played BluRay discs - they had the opportunity to cooperate with Netflix and other content providers like the Smart TVs that followed, but they didn’t. When they rug-pulled the “otherOS” feature that I was using to stream live (still) photos from WebCams in the Caribbean, that earned a NetTop PC a place in the living room, and from there PC based content sourcing became the norm in our house. To this day, we have no “Smart” TVs. Our BluRay players are not internet connected (and they play 99% DVDs, less than 1% BluRay content…)
Consumer behavior gets ingrained, hard to change when they’re happy where they are.