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Nope.. I'm not too optimistic.

Yeah, well....or if theres a problem you can actually buy it from an actual store

It will be interesting to see if Sony concedes to this. If so, I suspect Microsoft will be paying a fee for those movies Sony has the rights to. But they need to be careful and not hurt their other movie business agreements. Who knows...

Well put Media Master.

You guys should feel lucky.
No Netflix for Canada D':

That's kind of a shame. Sony is never any good with those "hearts and minds" issues. This doesn't make anyone like Microsoft less, it just makes them hate Sony more. Thanks, guys.

It's not as if disallowing the streaming of their movies is going to convince people to switch over to the PS3 Netflix service . . . you know . . . cause there isn't one.

In all fairness, this really makes sense for Sony to pull the movies in a business stand point. It's basically giving your competitor some free extra points.

We don't get any movies in Finland. :/ Sucksssss.

I've been dickin' with the NXE for hours now and that Netflix streaming service is frickin' awesome. I hate Nintendo Miis, but I spent an hour building outfits for my avatar, and now I feel dirty. I downloaded the Fable 2 premium theme after I realised they're more than just backgrounds, they also have 3D "sets" for your animated friends list. It's sick! Well, anyways, gonna wash off the avatar filth with a stream of Netflix: Alien.
NXE kicks ass!

I really hope Netflix and more specifically the 360 version of Netflix comes to the UK sometime soon

@ OmegaPirate

The problem is that Sony announced the PS3 as a 'mutlimedia' package from the getgo, and slapped on a ridiculous asking price to boot. On release, they hadn't mastered any of the basic features in each section (online play for gaming, DivX support for  videos, etc), and as such it didn't feel so much like a multimedia system as much as Sony trying to one-up Microsoft out of the box. Microsoft, however, introduced the Xbox 360 as a gaming platform, having given its users a unique online and general gaming experience, and has slowly been upgrading it as time goes by to increasing user demand. They've managed to keep their users enticed to the system by taking their time and releasing the new features when ready, and not just shoving them out all at once. Don't get me wrong, I do believe that it's pretty damn contradictory for Microsoft to go down the multipurpose route, but they've handled it well, and at the end of the day, the main point of the system is still gaming.

Personally, I think it's quite selfish of Sony to remove their films from the service, and I can't really see how it makes business sense either. Surely Sony would be acquiring royalties from Netflix/Microsoft everytime a movie is watched? Hopefully they can sort it out before long, as the only people really being affected by all this are the consumers.

@Silque

@OmegaPirate: You do realize the 360 has been streaming movies since launch, right? It's not something that has just happened. The recent Netflix partnership is just an expansion of that service. And the complaint is pretty easy to understand; I think ideally we would want access to every movie ever made streaming to our 360 from the comfort of our couches. Less Movies = Bad. More Movies = Good. Pretty simple.

Oh well.  Guess I won't be watching Sony Netflix movies.  No big loss seeing as their are a hella ton of movies that arent' from Sony on Netflix.  Who's the real loser in this again?

Despite lacking those flicks, the instant streaming lineup is fairly robust for something launched on day one.  Granted, 100K > 10K, but considering my expectations were in the dumps for the streaming selection, I'm incredibly pleased with Netflix and MS. It's a damn fine showing. Furthermore, NXE is fantastic.