Netflix Pioneers Industry To Get Left in the Dust?

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 22, 2005 @03:50PM from the brave-little-tailor dept.

prostoalex writes "The New York Times profiles Netflix, the company that pioneered subscription-based DVD plans where a disc is sent via postal service and no late fee is charged. It describes the company from May 1998, when it originally launched the Web site as a DVD-by-mail rental service (with late fees). Interesting factoids: Netflix operates 30 centers around the country and 11% of San Francisco residents subscribe to the service. Turns out, the company is not really afraid of Blockbuster, Wal-mart and Amazon moving into their markets, but they do consider on-demand Internet-download services to be a threat to their business model."

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Re:TiVo, Netflix, ... by Glendale2x · 2005-02-22 15:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Damn... beat me by a few seconds.

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I DON'T WORK THERE, NOR DOES ANYONE I KNOW by Triumph+The+Insult+C · 2005-02-22 16:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

but yea, there's this huge conspiracy that they hold on to my rentals ... right

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Re:Could it be? by multimed · 2005-02-22 20:05 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What church would that be? I've been thinking it's about time I found the God. Or at least, appreciated the beauty of his creations.

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