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M A V I C wrote:
[quote=Winston]I don't think the Netflix comparison is complete. I think Netflix provides online videos as a free addition to its DVD rental business. (I suppose one could read that the other way around too, but the DVD rental business is older and larger.) So the total package of what one can access with a Netflix account is a lot larger than the number of streaming videos available. According to Wikipedia Netflix has 100,000 titles in its library.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix
This got brought up in reference to apps available on the iPhone. So keep that in mind. The iPhone doesn't have a DVD player
Sure, but most people who have iPhones have a DVD player, and a some of those have Netflix accounts. Having a Netflix account is made more valuable by having the ability to stream video, and including that at no cost on an iPhone is likely to cause some people to use that instead of paying for videos from iTunes. The Netflix app doesn't exist in a vacuum, just as iTunes on an iPhone is tied to having iTunes on a computer and being able to potentially play iTunes content on other devices makes it more valuable than if you could only access it on an iPod/iPhone. I think Netflix thus provides more competition for iTunes on the iPhone than if it existed
solely as an iPhone service. People have Netflix for reasons beyond streaming to the iPhone, and that gives a bigger market for Netflix use on the iPhone.
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Ah, but am I?
I think I am, but I don't know if I think therefore I am.
Too metaphysical for a lovely afternoon.
I'll go listen for trees falling in the forest.
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What is Netflix (we don't have it down here), isn't it DVD rentals?
This isn't iPhone or iPad content, it just an online business.
You are probably right about Premier, but that is how I remember it.
Greed probably isn't the correct word.
I mean trying to make the most profit and absolutely everyone else be damned, regardless of the consequences.
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silvarios wrote:
[quote=Mike V]
What is Netflix (we don't have it down here), isn't it DVD rentals?
This isn't iPhone or iPad content, it just an online business.
Netflix also streams video. The iPad has an app to access the streaming content with an iPod touch and iPhone version to be released sometime in the future.
Nathan
And you can also stream from Netflix to a computer, XBox, PlayStation3 or Wii and some other devices. The PS3 and Wii require that you get a disc from Sony or Nintendo respectively which you have to load first. Access to streaming content is currently included in Netflix's regular monthly rental fee at no additional charge.
Netflix's DVD rental model is that you can have some number of rentals out at one time (typically 2 or 3 titles) and as soon as you return one they send you the next one on the list you set up with them. They have local distribution set up around the country, so turnaround is typically only 2-3 days (at least in major metro areas). They charge a fixed monthly fee based on the number of DVDs you can have out at one time. You can watch as many as you want during the month, within the limits of the turnaround for returning the ones you've watched.
As far as I know there are no limits on the number of streaming videos you can watch during a month.
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