The New Xbox Experience streaming movie service, provided as part of a special deal with Netflix, is losing all Sony Pictures related content - which was set to be provided to users of the service through studio Columbia Pictures.

Apparently, unspecified 'licensing problems' have forced Netflix to pull the movies, although tellingly the content remains firmly available to subscribers who use PCs and TVs.

"As watching instantly becomes a more prominent part of the Netflix service, our goal is to have all of our streaming content licensed for all of our partner devices," Netflix revealed to MTV Multiplayer. "We're doing well in this area, but it will take some time before we fully achieve that goal."

"Today, titles regularly come in and out of license and there is a natural ebb and flow to what we have on license at any given point in time. In the case of Xbox 360, a few hundred titles are temporarily unavailable to be streamed via the Xbox game console."

Hundreds of movies, eh? Ouch. Netflix is available in the US only at present, and the service is being added via the New Xbox Experience, now.

By Luke Guttridge

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