Cost | What to Enjoy | Features | Video | News & Updates | Press Releases | Editor’s Assessment
Cost: Instant comes free with Subscription
What to Enjoy:
According to their website, Netflix is the world’s largest online movie rental service, boasting a deep well of over 100,000 titles (both movies and TV shows) available on DVD and Blu-ray. Netflix Instant is a free service to all subscribers that streams on-demand, DVD-quality movies and TV shows for viewing on any computer (PC or Mac). Netflix boasts “over 12,000 movies & TV episodes” are available via the stream. Depending on your subscription, you can watch as many movies as you want, as often as you wish.
Third-Party Features:
Netflix Instant’s stream is available on Xbox 360 (via Xbox LIVE Gold Membership) and Roku through exclusive partnerships. PlayOn gives Playstation 3, and Nintendo Wii owners access. Netflix Instant are also integrated into various Web-enabled TVs and Blu-ray players from LG, Vizio and Sony.
News & Updates:
Lincoln Journal Star (9/13/2009): From Netflix to you, those discs take quite a journey – This is the story of a little red envelope. It arrives by truck before dawn Tuesday at a nondescript warehouse a few miles from downtown Orlando, Fla. For the rest of the day, this envelope, and more than 100,000 like it, will be sent like electric current through a human-and-machine processing system that would amaze Henry Ford. {Read more}
TechCrunch (1/5/2009): Netflix streaming comes to LG TV this spring – Just a few weeks ago we were all excited to see Netflix streaming makes its way to the Xbox 360 and Series 3 TiVos. Ha, that’s already obsolete, as LG plans to release a TV with the service built-in. And yes, this is the first deal of its kind. {Read more}
Press Releases:
2/5/2009: One Million Xbox LIVE Members Download and Activate Netflix on Xbox 360 – Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) today announced that 1 million Xbox LIVE Gold members have downloaded and activated the groundbreaking Xbox LIVE application from Netflix since the alliance launched last November. In less than three months the Xbox LIVE community has watched instantly 1.5 billion minutes of movies and TV episodes. {Read more}
Editor’s Assessment:
Netflix has emerged as the leading DVD rental service in the United States and with their Netflix Instant integration into web based televisions and Blu-Ray players they seem to be making huge strides in the field.
