Netflix Partners with LG to Bring Movies Straight to TV
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Netflix, the DVD-by-mail company with more than 7 million customers, has a new strategy that may one day make those red envelopes obsolete.
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SAN FRANCISCO  Â DVD-by-mail service Netflix Inc. will begin delivering movies and other programming directly to televisions later this year through a set-top box that will pipe entertainment over a high-speed Internet connection.
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Blockbuster Inc, the No. 1 U.S.  movie rental company, began offering free in-store rentals to  subscribers of online rival Netflix Inc. on Tuesday as it tries  to take market share from Netflix and reach its year-end  subscriber goal.
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For a few years, technology companies have been racing to find a way to get movies from the Internet to the living-room TV in a way that will get consumers excited.
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Nokia, NEC, Motorola, Siemens, and Sony Ericsson have announced their tie-up to decide on a common standard to deliver TV shows straight to the mobile phone over a mobile broadcast network.
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The two companies say they will jointly develop a set-top box to download movies over the internet. Netflix will arrange the movie licensing from Hollywood studios, and TiVo will take care of the product technology.
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Online DVD rental company Netflix   Inc NFLX.O on Sunday announced that it would pay $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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Plan aims to offer Comcast subscribers a nearly limitless supply of movies and TV shows that can be viewed on demand and through the Internet.
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Blockbuster wastes no time in undercutting Netflix.
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Netflix and Blockbuster make nice, but it can't be nice.
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A new Netflix feature, Netflix Friends, lets you know what others are watching (and vice-versa).
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A plan aims to offer Comcast subscribers a nearly limitless supply of movies and TV shows that can be viewed on demand and through the Internet.
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As our own Rick Munarriz reported earlier today, Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) announced its third-quarter earnings last night. The big news, though, was that the DVD-by-mail
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES  - Online DVD rental service  Netflix Inc. NFLX.O and digital video recorder maker TiVo  Inc. TIVO.O on Thursday said they would jointly develop a  product to download movies over the Internet, a deal uniting  two of the fastest growing brands in home entertainment.
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Online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. and television recording technology company TiVo Inc. on Thursday said that they had agreed to develop a joint entertainment offering.
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Money man spreads wild rumor Yes, Amazon already has an online on-demand movie service, but that wonât stop the worldâs most famous web retailer from buying NetFlix, the movies-through-the-mail company that recently built an on-demand service of its own. At least, thatâs what the Associated Press is reporting.â¦
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LG Electronics and Netflix will work to develop a set-top box that can stream movies over the Internet directly onto a television screen, the companies announced Thursday.Netflix, best known for its mail-order DVD rental service, began offering a&#160;video-on-demand service&#160;for impatient movie buffs last year. That service, though, only plays movies on a PC, and with 6,000 titles available for download offers a more limited selection than the 90,000 Netflix offers by mail.The new streaming service will allow customers to watch on a high-definition television, using a networked set-top box that LG plans to ship later this year, the companies said.While Netflix seems keen to invest more in download services, other players are pulling out. U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart Stores closed down its video download service last month, less than a year after introducing it.Wal-Mart used Windows Media Player to wrap its video files in a DRM (digital rights management) layer so that they will only play on the PC to which they were downloaded, or on certain portable media players. Now that the service is closed, customers cannot move their videos to a new PC, according to the service&#39;s Web site.Macrovision, a software developer specializing in DRM systems, is also hoping to play a role in the market for downloads direct to the television screen. Movie download service CinemaNow will use Macrovision&#39;s DRM to prevent copying of its content downloaded directly to set-top boxes or digital television sets, the companies announced Thursday.