Instant Movie Viewing on Netflix

[liz_marcs]

MarcsBro was the one who gave me the heads up on this.

People who have Netflix might be interested to know that in addition to however many DVDs they get a month, they'll also be able to get a number of additional hours for online viewing of movies.

So, for example, if you're on the 3-DVDs-a-month plan, you'll be able to watch another 18 hours' worth of movies/tv shows online free of charge. The cheapest plan will give you an additional 6 hours' worth.

They're starting small — only 1,000 titles will be included at the start — but by June 2007, the option will be available to the entire customer base.

For more information, here's the press release.

Comments

[timeofchange.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks for posting the link.

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

...drool. I think my predicted productivity levels for the year have just dropped by, oh, 18 hours a month or so...

[jakeexperience.livejournal.com]

The guys who created Skype are also working on a television content delivery system called joost. I'm not surprised that people are looking to deliver tv shows over the Internets, but I am puzzled as to why it took this long for them to do it.

[cafedemonde.livejournal.com]

Woohoo!!

[aceliwen.livejournal.com]

Those of us who have drunk the Apple koolaid apparently need not apply... the feature is only available to people running WinXP or Vista and IE 6 or better.

Admittedly, that is 90% of the planet. Still saddened.