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Posts tagged as: netflix
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As someone who recently re-subscribed to Netflix after years of absence, I’m thrilled with this news.
Netflix announced, yesterday, that they signed a deal with Starz Entertainment, to make about 12,000 Starz movies/tv shows available for instant streaming on Netflix.com.
Approximately 1,000 have already been added to the website, and more are being added weekly. Titles already added include No Country For Old Men, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, and Ratatouille.
If Netflix dropped the requirment to use internet explorer to stream movies, I’d use it a whole lot more. Firefox support isn’t all that complicated, is it?
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In addition to the news that Netflix will be dropping HD-DVD in favor of Blu-ray, we now have two other companies joining the Blu-ray bandwagon.
The New York Times reports that Best Buy, clearly an influential power in this field, will be “strongly recommending” Blu-ray to customers as the high definition format of choice.
Further digging the hole is the news that Blockbuster will also be joining the Blu-ray bandwagon. Hacking Netflix reported the news, and received confirmation from a Blockbuster spokesperson who said that they had 250 stores with HD-DVD, and 1700 with Blu-ray. They clarified by saying that the 250 were the first stores they rolled both high definition formats out to, where they watched customer rental trends and determined Blu-ray was the clear winner.
I guess this means I’m buying a Blu-ray player or PS3.
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Release Date 11/14/2008 
