Netflix--The next monopoly?
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Why would the proven leader in the "mail me" renting business pick on a company doing all it could to stay afloat? Check out this and other original content from CNET's Blog network.
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Home entertainment trendsetters Netflix Inc. (NFLX) and TiVo Inc. (TIVO) hope to link up on a service that will use high-speed Internet connections to pipe DVD-quality movies into the homes of their mutual subscribers.
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Online DVD rental company Netflix  Inc on Tuesday said it is considering a broad range of options  as part of its strategy to allow subscribers to download movies  from the Internet.
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Two fierce rivals in the DVD rental business have called a truce - at least when it comes to patents. Blockbluster has agreed to settle with Netflix over charges that the brick and mortar retailer infringed on Netflix's online DVD rental patents when it launched Blockbuster Online.
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Faced with increasing competition from rental giant Blockbuster, Netflix is taking the expected step of lowering the price of its 2-at-a-time DVD rental plan by $1. The move follows a similar price drop earlier this month by Blockbuster for it's 3-DVD plan.
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By Adrian McCoy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Jan. 28--Good news for couch potatoes: Netflix and Blockbuster are  battling to be at the forefront of movie rentals, offering services to keep up  with increasing requests for on-demand entertainment.
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Comcast announced a service at CES that sounds an awful lot like Netflix. I already pay Comcast over $100 a month for various services. I pay Netflix $20 per month, and what Comcast is proposing is even more useful and easier than what Netflix offers. If it actually is, it would be easier to turn off the Netflix service. Netflix has a unique opportunity with X years of preference data for users that they still have active relationships with. Open the service up so that other websites can integrate their services with yours, the prototype being a dating site that matched people with others who like the same kinds of movies. Build a network of utility to lock users in with a feather instead of a deadbolt.  The uniqueness of Netflix is about to go poof. Time to build a new kind of uniqueness. It might be too late, but let's hope it's not. I don't really expect Comcast to share data with other service providers. It's not in their nature. Netflix -- zig while they match your (old) zag.
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Online DVD rental company Netflix Inc. is offering $1 million to the first person to develop software to improve the accuracy of Netflix's movie recommendation system by 10 percent.
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Online DVD renter Netflix Inc. and television recorder maker TiVo Inc. are close to a deal to allow Netflix subscribers to download movies over the Internet to their
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Online DVD rental company Netflix Inc. on Thursday cut its subscription price and said it was changing its strategy to sacrifice healthy profits for growth in the face of strong competition.
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Netflix offered a million dollars for a computer program that accurately predicts which films people will rent from its online service.
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Video rental company Netflix Inc said  on Monday it was offering subscribers unlimited access to  movies and television shows to watch via the Web on their  personal computers.
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Digital media is the future. Here's one way to cash in.
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Internet service providers have to walk a fine line between fairness and profitability. Users want maximum service, and are entitled to honest contracts. Maybe there's a way to help everyone at once.
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Game addicts meet a potentially addictive new game. Will profit ensue?
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The store chain will launch a Web DVD rental service like Netflix -- only cheaper. Also: American troops get access to Napster & hellip;. Microsoft offers XP lite in Asia to recapture business lost to Linux, piracy & hellip;. and more.
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Netflix has many reasons why it should avoid entering the video game rental market and one very important reason to go for it -- survival.