Netflix Coming To Your TV
Netflix? Directly to my television? I don’t even want them delivering DVD’s to my mailbox, why would I want to give them access to my television? Plus, I think I already have that service, you know, the ability to pay for movies through the box on my television set.
Oh sure, I can’t watch any one of 50,000 movies, but the ones I have seen, that I may want to see again, have already been purchased, so I don’t need to download or rent the old ones anyway.
DVD-by-mail service Netflix Inc. will begin delivering movies and other programming directly to televisions later this year through a set-top box that will pipe entertainment over a high-speed Internet connection.
The set-top box, to be made by LG Electronics Inc. as part of a partnership announced late Wednesday, is designed to broaden the appeal of a year-old streaming service that Netflix provides to its 7 million subscribers at no additional charge.
LG Electronics didn’t reveal how much the set-top box will cost when it hits the market in the summer or early autumn. Similar devices made by Apple Inc. and Vudu Inc. cost $299 to $399.
My bet? It tanks. Why? Because people don’t want another box, in addition to all of the others they already have, sitting on their television. Oh yeah, and people only want to see so many older movies, once the newness wears off, they’ll never use it.