Tuesday, September 7, 2004
Newsweek: Netflix & TiVO To Team Up
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 06:00 PM
"Netflix and Tivo ushered in an age of couch-potato bliss. Netflix lets its customers browse through its huge movie catalog on the Web and rent DVDs through the mail without having to worry about late fees. TiVo lets people digitally record their favorite shows and zoom through the ads. But now couch potatoes are perched on the cusp of true paradise. Soon they won't even have to stand up to trudge to the mailbox; fat broadband pipes will let them directly download movies over the Net to their television
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Later this month, NEWSWEEK has learned, the companies plan to unveil a simple but significant partnership that could shake up the media world. Subscribers who belong to both services will be able to download their Netflix DVDs over the Internet directly into the TiVo boxes in their homes, instead of receiving them in the mail."
Couch-potato nirvana is right. It is interesting that no one thought of this kind of service before. In fact, i am sure someone at Blockbuster must be really upset that they didn't think of this before. I guess this is an attempt to steal those customers back that chose to go with DVR service coupled with some cable service, because cable providers typically offer Pay-per-view and Movies-on-demand.
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Later this month, NEWSWEEK has learned, the companies plan to unveil a simple but significant partnership that could shake up the media world. Subscribers who belong to both services will be able to download their Netflix DVDs over the Internet directly into the TiVo boxes in their homes, instead of receiving them in the mail."
Couch-potato nirvana is right. It is interesting that no one thought of this kind of service before. In fact, i am sure someone at Blockbuster must be really upset that they didn't think of this before. I guess this is an attempt to steal those customers back that chose to go with DVR service coupled with some cable service, because cable providers typically offer Pay-per-view and Movies-on-demand.
