http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/netflix-to-release-set-top-box-by-the-end-of-the-year/ Engadget Comments for Netflix to release set-top box by the end of the year? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/netflix-to-release-set-top-box-by-the-end-of-the-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/netflix-to-release-set-top-box-by-the-end-of-the-year/Jun 22nd 2006 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/netflix-to-release-set-top-box-by-the-end-of-the-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/netflix-to-release-set-top-box-by-the-end-of-the-year/
That would completely put them in the content industry's sights. Used as is, a rental system, Netflix is great. Download and burn, or even burning from their existing mail-based system, is copyright infringement.

That aside, I don't want another set top box. I've got a TiVo. I've got an X-Box. I intentionally got rid of my Comcast box and switched to CableCard because I had too much crap in my living room. I don't want another freaking box. Queued downloading would be great. Awesome in fact. But integrate it with something else. Make it a VoD channel, or put it in a TiVo. Just don't give me another silver box to add to my collection.

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People need a new lesson in patience. It's not absolutely necessary to have everything right here, right now.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/netflix-to-release-set-top-box-by-the-end-of-the-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/netflix-to-release-set-top-box-by-the-end-of-the-year/
I would love this, as my current two DVD Netflix selection has sat on top of my TV for over two weeks. This would be great, but I imagine that it could be significantly more expensive as Netflix currently counts on that lag time of the mail on both ends--you could watch a lot more movies and that would cut into the bottom line.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/netflix-to-release-set-top-box-by-the-end-of-the-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/netflix-to-release-set-top-box-by-the-end-of-the-year/
I would love this, as my current two DVD Netflix selection has sat on top of my TV for over two weeks. This would be great, but I imagine that it could be significantly more expensive as Netflix currently counts on that lag time of the mail on both ends--you could watch a lot more movies and that would cut into the bottom line.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/netflix-to-release-set-top-box-by-the-end-of-the-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/netflix-to-release-set-top-box-by-the-end-of-the-year/
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Most People want a set top box in their living room that plays movies and is no hassle to operate ,does it matter how that content is delivered as long it is delivered fast with Progressive playback .

Also disk space is why Subscription services will be popular and not download to own If you want to own a piece of content get it On disk ,DATA stick or some other portable storage device .]]>Jun 22nd 2006 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/netflix-to-release-set-top-box-by-the-end-of-the-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/netflix-to-release-set-top-box-by-the-end-of-the-year/
You will be able to do both. Netflix has gone on record saying the box idea was just thrown out there as an example of one of the things they're looking at. They've had a download site in the works for years now. The issue is rights.

Lots of people are hung up on what Steve Jobs is doing with iTunes video right now. But the stats I saw from iTunes video so far (30 million downloads total, including podcasts and music videos) aren't very impressive. It's Netflix that people should be watching. They've been planning for downloadable movies basically since their inception (there's a famous quote from Reed Hastings that was something like "there's a reason we didn't call the company 'DVD's by Mail'", which was an answer he gave during a quarterly conference call about just this question in something like 2002).

The thing about Netflix is that they already have a great web site, with 60,000 titles on it. All they need to do is add a "download it now!" button to their movie pages and maybe build out a special section at first so you can see a list of everything they have available for download. But it would not be that difficult for them technically.

The difficulty is just getting the studios to agree to it. And that's the same difficulty everybody's having. But if anyone's gonna penetrate that wall of lead that apparently lines every movie studio exec's brain, it's going to be Netflix.
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