No DVD Downloading, Yet!
October 24th, 2005
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One of the technologies that I want to see in the near future is automatic downloading of movies, at DVD quality level. So that you can watch any movie without having to go to the movie store or anything like that.
Now, Reuters is reporting that Netflix postponed their downloading, which is not good news:
” Netflix Inc. will postpone a test launch of its online movie download service indefinitely because of problems obtaining licensing agreements from Hollywood studios, Chief Executive Reed Hastings told analysts on a conference call on Wednesday.
Hastings said the company would continue enhancing its infrastructure and developing technology to deliver online movies so the service “will be ready to launch when the content climate begins to thaw.”
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