September 22nd, 2004
Alice! Come home! This is painful! It’s TiVo!
“Warner Bros. has agreed to license some films to Netflix as part of a test run of the Internet company’s upcoming movie-download service, according to sources familiar with the plan. The agreement lends strength to speculation that Netflix and TiVo plan to jointly introduce a video-on-demand (VOD) service in the coming year.”
Dear Lord! Not yet another video on demand service! They’re multiplying faster than remedies for erectile dysfunction! Read the details here. I can’t go on.
Alice Responds: Don’t worry Bill this is a natural progression and a great thing. I use Movielink to download movies to my laptop for when I travel, but then I rarely watch them. I use Netflix for DVDs, but rarely watch them because I have a ton of things on my TiVo. If I could download new release movies into my TiVo I would be in HEAVEN. So don’t be frightened. This moves the video download form the laptop to the home TV, or should I say the home Tivo. About time!
