Wednesday, September 8, 2004
Watch Netflix movies with TiVo
According to this News.com article, TiVo and Netflix may be very close to a deal that will allow users of both services to download movies (via a broadband connection presumably) to their TiVo boxes.
This could be a very cool idea. One of the key issues in the success of the feature will be cost. For example, I would imagine that Netflix stands to gain more new subscribers than TiVo does (since TiVo requires a hardware purchase). So there will need to be price incentives for current TiVo users to sign up for Netflix.
Another issue will be download method. Will they download the entire movie to your TiVo before you can watch it or will they stream it? Anything that is less than "on demand" service will not be worth the added price IMO.
I'm sure they will release more details when and if the deal goes through.
According to this News.com article, TiVo and Netflix may be very close to a deal that will allow users of both services to download movies (via a broadband connection presumably) to their TiVo boxes.
This could be a very cool idea. One of the key issues in the success of the feature will be cost. For example, I would imagine that Netflix stands to gain more new subscribers than TiVo does (since TiVo requires a hardware purchase). So there will need to be price incentives for current TiVo users to sign up for Netflix.
Another issue will be download method. Will they download the entire movie to your TiVo before you can watch it or will they stream it? Anything that is less than "on demand" service will not be worth the added price IMO.
I'm sure they will release more details when and if the deal goes through.
¶ 12:36 PM 
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