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Apple TV or XBox: Which Is the Living Room Winner?

Tolga,

"More than half of Xbox 360 owners pay $50 a year for a "gold" membership, which will be required for access to Netflix's "Watch Instantly" library. They also must subscribe to Netflix, which charges $9 per month for the least expensive plan that includes unlimited streaming."

This was taken from this article:
biz.yahoo.com/ap/08071...

Apple TV or XBox: Which Is the Living Room Winner?

For the Xbox in addition to the cost of the box you will need to pay 50$ per year for the Xbox gold membership (to buy content at the Xbox marketplace) AND at least 9$ per year for the Netflix service (which will get 1 DVD by mail and their all-you-can-eat VOD). This comes to 50+12*9=>158$ per year.

You can download content for this content, but you will pay this amount EVERY year no matter what. With AppleTV you pay only for the content you buy. I find this way much more appealing. This way if I don't have the time to see a movie or TV show I don't pay anything.

Also, adding to andyzaky argument with respect to the interface please see the new interface that will be coming to the Xbox: www.engadget.com/2008/.../
This is clearly an interface for gamers, it will not appeal the general public.