Netflix keeps its faith in DVDs, but looks ahead to VoD
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By-mail movie rental pioneer Netflix posted its fourth quarter earnings, with favorable results. But in its quarterly conference call, the company gave DVD about five more years before it ceases to be the dominant format.
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The race is very close in a contest by Netflix, the online movie rental service, for a better system of recommending movies.
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Netflix Inc. expects its profit to sag the rest of this year as the online DVD rental leader absorbs the cost of lowering its the most popular subscription plan to ward off an intensifying threat from rival Blockbuster Inc.
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DVD rental company Netflix Inc on  Wednesday said it was developing a set-top box with LG  Electronics Inc to let subscribers watch movies streamed  directly from the Web to their TVs.
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With TiVo (TIVO ) and NetFlix (NFLX ) finally announcing a long-rumored partnership to launch a video-on-demand service sometime next year, investors smiled on the deal that will keep the two popular, but under-fire, innovators ahead of competitors.
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Online DVD rental leader Netflix Inc. is putting social networking on its marquee of coming attractions for next year.
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES  - Netflix Inc will not cutits price for online DVD rentals to match lower fees set onWednesday by rival Blockbuster Inc.  in an escalatingbattle for online subscribers, Netflix Chief Executive ReedHastings said.
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Online DVD rental company Netflix  Inc. NFLX.O on Monday posted higher fourth-quarter earnings  driven by subscriber growth and historically low subscriber  turnover, but said it was headed for net losses in the current  quarter and possibly the 2005 fiscal year.
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In anticipation of Apple's move into the video rental industry, Netflix is expanding subscribers' options for watching movies and TV shows online.
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A Netflix policy has Bill Mann wondering -- is it because the company needs to, or it just can?
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Netflix has announced it is not longer supporting HD DVD.
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By Michael Liedtke  LOS GATOS, Calif. - Netflix Inc. will start showing movies and TV episodes over the Internet this week, giving its subscribers more instant gratification as the DVD-by-mail service prepares for a coming technology shift threatening its survival.
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Stating that the industry has already picked a winner in the battle of next-generation DVD superiority, Netflix announced Monday that it will stock only Blu-ray discs and drop the HD DVD format. Since the first high-definition DVDs came on the market in early 2006, Netflix has offered both formats.&quot;We&#39;re now at the point where the industry can pursue the migration to a single format, bring clarity to the consumer and accelerate the adoption of high-def,&quot; Ted Sarandos, chief content officer for Netflix, said in a statement. According to the statement, the company cited the decision by four of the six major studios to use only the Sony-developed format.Netflix&#39;s move comes about a month after&#160;Warner Brothers announced its shift to Blu-ray, joining three other major studios. Only two major studios, Paramount Home Entertainment and Universal Studios Home Entertainment, publish in the HD DVD format.Netflix subscribers can still rent the remaining HD DVD titles until the discs&#39; natural life cycles take them out of circulation. The company plans to fully abandon HD DVD by the end of the year.Netflix offers more than 90,000 DVD titles, over 400 of them are Blu-ray.&#160;
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Netflix and LG Electronics are working on a set-top box that will let customers watch movies streamed from the Web to their TV.
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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 that could mark a  revolution in home entertainment.
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In a win for Blu-ray and a loss for consumer choice, Netflix said Monday it will no longer be stocking new HD DVD movies for its subscribers to rent.
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TOKYO -- You may not remember the battle between VHS and beta or between cassette tapes and CD&#39;s but in years to come, you&#39;ll likely be able to recall a battle over the format for the next generation of DVDs.