Trouble for Tivo and NetFlix Partnership?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 9, 2004 @08:50AM from the to-good-to-be-true dept.

lucabrasi999 writes "Well, things may not not be as good for the potential joining up of Netflix and Tivo as once thought. Herb Greenberg, of CBS Marketwatch has a commentary which hints that this deal may not be as great as it once appeared. Why? In short, distribution rights. It appears that Netflix may not legally distribute all of the movies in it's library via Tivo. As a side note, Netflix may also be feeling some economic pressure. It now forces all cancellations occur by phone, making it more difficult to cancel because of a long hold time."

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Kinda insane by HackHackBoom · 2004-09-09 08:53 · Score: 1, Offtopic

With all the crap Tivo and similar services are getting from the monopolies, I'm not surprised that any merger or buyout would run into problems.

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