Last week, we reported that Netflix has been meeting with cable companies in the past weeks in an effort to get their own channel.
If CEO Reed Hastings is successful, Netflix would become available as an on-demand option for cable subscribers, similar to rivals HBO and Showtime. The channel would offer Netflix's streaming catalog of 25,000 TV episodes and movies.
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You know, the first article didn't exactly click when I read it, now it does. Now that I've read this one, what the hell would be the reason for NetNuts? Isn't the service already as tied into your TV as it can possibly get?
Enough already... Their starting to get delusions of world domination like Disney.
I would guess that Netflix just did this for the pub.
In other words, they can now offer themselves as an alternative to cable and can site this as an example of how cable companies are not open to the future.
it makes no sense to have both cable and netflix. I ditched cable and now just have netflix and hulu plus for a whopping $18 total and I swear to god the only reason I will ever get cable again is due to football.
They should have known cable companies want nothing to do with them. Here in Canada the ISP's tried to put a very small cap and use UBB on our net so we can't stream movies on things like Netflix. I don't understand why they would want to be with cable providers anyway? Almost every new device be it blu-ray players, TVs, or a game console has support for Netflix.
Originally posted by xaznboitx: By the way, don't you need to have cabletv service to use netflix anyway?
No, it's just an online "rental" streaming service. Netflix already has "HD" content, you have to enable it on there site due to some ISP's having a very low data cap.
