Netflix accidentally exposes "Netflix Player"?
By Ryan Block 
posted Jul 11th 2005 9:50AM
posted Jul 11th 2005 9:50AM
We know it's been a long time coming that Netflix announced that they were hopping into bed with TiVo on a movie download service, but are we finally eking the first peek at their "Netflix Player"? Apparently the user in question who found this noticed a "Downloadable" genre briefly exposed in his Netflix interface, and saw some registration form for the Netflix Player service—but it was nipped before he was able to get any further with it. Anyone seen something similar?
Man, I'd have a Tivo if they had a dual tuner hd version that could compete with my Cox Communications Moto/Pioneer DVR.
Any word on whether this will require a whole new box or if this will just be another software update? I am sooo excited about this! My two favorite companies comming together.
I wonder if this is legit. I really hope that NetFlivo (hey, you come up with a better name!) isn't vaporware.
Lets hope it's a dual tuner, HD box with a massive hard drive and the Tivo OS?
Maybe TiVo will fix the bugs in their current software when they update it for NetFlix stuff. It's SO screwed up and slow if you updated your box for TiVo2Go functionality.
to the FLIXQUEUE guy:
good job posting a 'shameless plug' for a software that asks for a registration key that goes into an endless loop, displaying a cannot connect to server error. I promptly uninstalled it, thank you very much.
Hope it works with my DirecTivo, but I doubt it.
hmmm... Flexqueue didn't even get that far before it left a steaming turd on my screen. I think it has spyware in it too.
If you look through the jobs section you will notice they are searching for a "Director, Product Management" whose role includes the following tidbit:
"The Electronic Delivery Service (EDS) will augment Netflix's current DVD delivery model with high quality movies delivered to consumers' home TVs through the Internet, on a subscription basis. "
Only way for this to work would be for the tivo to get a software update and then you tell it what netflix movies you want, it downloads them silently in the uncompressed format, then watch a few hours later. No one wants compression of any kind.