Comments on: Picture imperfect for Netflix, TiVo

The online movie renter and the DVR provider might seem like a natural match, but any partnership faces licensing and piracy challenges.

This industry needs something from Apple...

For home video to work the home network needs to work
flawless between computers, laptops, the TV/VCR/DVD player.

Someone like Apple needs to make a device like the iPod, but
wireless, and made for video broadcast and reception.

Sony already has one.

http://www.mac360.com/index.php/mac360/more/
apples_wireless_tablet_mac_surprise_its_a_sony/

[alek_nedic]

video broadcast

http://www.analogstereo.com/vacuum/miele_s5210_vacuum.htm

[ikesingle]

Movie on disk Licensing: Precedence

There is precedence now from the movie industry to allow DVDs to reside on personal video servers. See http://www.kaleidescape.com/ and their $27,000 product!!

I presume the price had something to do with it... if TiVo were to sell for that much, they'd be licensed too :-)

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Who would pirate these services?

I am absolutely sure that neither of these services are being
pirated now. ;)

[patrickr]

conveniently timed rumour, eh?

This is announced following both companies' stocks hitting their 52-week lows...jeesh.

In any event, I don't get cable, just antennae signal and Netflix. Obviously this leaves something to be desired, esp. considering that the Netflix turnaround on one movie can be as long as one week. I'm considering dropping that service completely in favor of cable and pay-per-view service, esp. since cable services now offer pause/play programming. If this came out a year from now, I'd just buy a Tivo and skip cable...there's nothing good on TV these days anyway.

Where do you live?

Never seen turnaround time longer than couple of days, but I live in SF Bay Area. A week is a lot! Do you get it all the time or was it single worst occurrence?

The Future of Netflix

Long reply, with HTML format, so referring out to my blog:

http://www.buzzhit.com/2004/09/future-of-netflix-uncertain.html