LG & Netflix Team Up to Offer Downloadable Movies on TV

eldavojohn writes "It might seem like they've come full circle, but the movie injection method has gone from TV to mail to online download to TV on demand. And Netflix & LG are betting it's going to be a hit. They're also betting you will want to buy yet another device for your home theater. A Wall Street Journal article notes: 'The partnership between Netflix, Los Gatos, Calif., and South Korea's LG represents another gamble by technology companies that video from the Internet, which is commonly downloaded to personal computers, will go mainstream when users can easily access it from TV sets. So far, Internet television products such as Apple Inc.'s Apple TV have largely been unsuccessful, stymied by a poor selection of videos, complexity of use and other shortcomings.'"

Comments

Re:colossally stupid

[origin2k]

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a mail truck full of DVDs!

Re:is another box necessary?

[Tibor the Hun]

Absolutely,
but unfortunately no one at Sony believes that there is any future to Moving pictures. For something like that to succeed, Sony would need:
-a large catalog of moving pictures,
- some form of a magical network connection for distribution, and lastly
-a device connected to a TV
Sadly, none of those things are yet feasible.

Microsoft, on the other hand doesn't have neither the money or clout to do something like that. Their true strengths are search, web-mail, MP3 players and Live.
The moving pictures - on demand are not yet a very lucrative market.