Digital Home Thoughts: Netflix Movie Streaming Coming to Canada Fall 2010

"Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX), the leading Internet movie subscription service, today announced it will expand into Canada this fall offering unlimited movies and TV episodes streamed instantly to TVs and computers for one low monthly fee. The Canadian launch will mark the first availability of Netflix outside the United States. Canadian Netflix members will be able to instantly watch a broad array of movies and TV episodes right on their TVs via a range of consumer electronics devices capable of streaming from Netflix, as well as watching on PCs and Macs. In addition to representing its inaugural international market, Canada will also mark the first streaming-only service promoted by Netflix."

Interesting! As one of two resident Canucks on the Digital Home Thoughts team, I'm quite excited by this - unlike all of our American readers to the south, in Canada we have virtually no streaming media services of any sort. Hulu? Nope. Zune, except via Xbox 360? Nope. Amazon video on demand? Nope. iTunes is one of the only options we have in Canada for purchasing video content. We desperately need some competition here to shake things up, and Netflix coming to Canada is just about the best thing I could have hoped for in this area. Bring it on! Interested Canadians can sign up at the Netflix.ca site for further info.