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Netflix to start offering downloadable movies in 2005 (1 Viewer)

Chris

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Eh.. somehow, this sounds DiVX-esque to me ;( I'll wait and see.. with so many formats trying to battle it out in that timeframe (HD-DVD/BluRay) it'll be interesting to see what kind of compression you'd get, because downloading a DVD, even over a 3MB connection, would be take a good while. And then you'd have to have a burner.. or watch on your PC? Eh.
 

Scott L

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I was hoping they'd research providing the movies in WM9 with DRM to save bandwidth. I was guessing the market for this would be those who have HTPCs or those don't have a decent enough system and wouldn't mind watching a movie on their PC.
 

Anthony R

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I think there is probably some demand for this such as college students. A large selection of hard-to-find titles would help tremendously.

I'd also say one big potential threat would be the current video-on-demand, especially if the selection increases and it acheives DVD quality.
 

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