Netflix to send video to TV sets trough the internet
Posted on 23/10/07 15:52 by Jan Willem                             
Netflix to send video to TV sets trough the internet

NetFlix, one of the most used online video rental companies has announced that it is investigating to send movies to TV's. Currently the company offers the possibility to rent movies by postal service where users select their favorite movies over the internet and get them send home and are able to return them by snail mail. The company also has the option to stream mainly old movies and is now looking for a way to sending movies and videos to television sets through Web-connected high-definition DVD players and Internet-connected game consoles.

According to a Netflix employee this will also be part of the company's long-term strategy. To offer a "hybrid service" by building a very large DVD rental subscriber base and bundling it with the ability to watch those movies online.

DRM anyone?

 

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By Michael (guest), Tue 23 Oct 2007 21:33
I don't have a problem with DRM when it is used properly. A rental business should definitely use DRM. Its a rental. If I pay for the rights of something I want to do with whatever I please within in reason. If everyone was responsible with their content and not big pirates then all this could be managed. Companies need to standardize DRM though. Too many varieties.
By DukeNukem, Tue 23 Oct 2007 21:35
DukeNukemI agree. We need one DRM and it MUST NOT mess with your PC. Period.
By Chuckwagon, Tue 23 Oct 2007 23:56
There is no need for DRM. It doesn't work anyway. All DRM does is dump on legit customers and law abiding citizens. Pirates (the real ones, not the pretend consumer kind) are not hampered by DRM at all. Only average consumers who might want to make a legitimate fair use copy of a product are harmed by DRM. And then only if they are not savvy enough to circumvent the garbage. DRM only generates additional revenue by squeezing it out of already paying customers by forcing them to re-purchase repeatedly for bogus reasons. It has nothing to do with actually protecting the product. DRM shouldn't stand for Digital Rights Management but rather Draconian Revenue Maintenance. Saying we need DRM is like saying we need speed governors on cars to prevent speeding. Too many people break the speed laws, and nobody has a legitimate need to exceed the posted limit, so we should require automakers to implement technology to prevent speeding. And if anyone complains, well obviously they are a lawbreaker, because the folks who obey the law won't be speeding anyway and wont mind the governors. The fact that people who want to speed are going to find a way to do it anyway, and that the only people who would then be prevented from speeding are the folks who don't already or only would if they had a need, well that doesn't matter because it's such a good idea we can just ignore reality and pretend the system works just as we dream it would. But hey, the average Joe Loser can't even understand the issues involved, let alone break from the rest of the stoopid sheeple, for us to ever hope that reason and common sense might win the day and allow DRM to go the way of the dinosaur. Smilie
By shaolin007, Wed 24 Oct 2007 03:13
shaolin007"There is no need for DRM. It doesn't work anyway. All DRM does is dump on legit customers and law abiding citizens. " Absolutely without a doubt right! I bought the "300" movie that came with a free movie download. Downloaded the movie to find out that it was DRM ridden. I said "Alright, lets see about that." Well, googled for a couple of free proggies to strip out DRM and bam, DRM gone! :-) The quality of the movie download was really sub par compared to the DVD version. The sound quality was horrible compared to the DVD. The sound was not multi-channel. My question is why even bother?

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