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3Jan2008 Filed under: Electronics & Gaming Author: Charles GuthrieRumor has is Netflix may soon be able to deliver movies directly to your TV via the internet:
The company wants to strike deals with electronics companies that will let it send movies straight to TV screens over the Internet. Its first partnership, announced Wednesday night, is with the South Korean manufacturer LG Electronics to stream movies and other programming to LG’s high-definition televisions.
The partnership will extend a novel feature from Netflix, announced a year ago, that allows paying subscribers to watch any of 6,000 movies and television shows on its Web site free. But that service can be accessed only with a personal computer.
from nytimes.com
I use the “Watch Now” feature on Netflix all the time and it works great, though I could just buy an overhead projector and attach it to my computer or even directly to my TV already, so I am not sure if Netflix needs to make any deals or partnerships. Still, if it works flawlessly and I don’t have to buy any equipment that is too expensive then it might be a good deal. 
RØB
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:04 am
Netflix “Watch Now” is weak. No support for OS X!
Charles
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
[URL link="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/05/01/netflix-shows-off-new-and-improved-watch-now/"]Au Contraire, Mon Frere?[/URL] [:coffee:][:duck:]
Or are you still using OS9? Someone told me recently they were still using it and couldn’t update because of the age of the Mac. I can’t remember if it was you.
RØB
January 3rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Hey man, you can send me all the articles about beta tests and convention promotionals you want, but the site itself speaks for itself:
http://www.netflix.com/WatchNowMessage?msg=51
Unless that’s a message specific to someone on a Windows machine, as I am now. It doesn’t seem like it, though.
Charles
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Ah, I did some more searching and it seems the new version is coming out [:I:]sometime[/:I:] this year:
[URL link="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/software/netflix-download-for-macs-and-tvs-coming-in-2008-289092.php"]http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/software/netflix-download-for-macs-and-tvs-coming-in-2008-289092.php[/URL]
Oh well, but a commenter on that site made a good point: it’s be awesome if Netflix could play inside a Nintendo Wii. [:coffee:][:sungl:]