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  1. Netflix considers plan to go streaming only by 2010 →

    With services like iTunes, Amazon Video and even Hulu, it’s apparent that the act of streaming content is gaining momentum onto the coattails of the conventional task of taking a trip to the video store. So much that the company that began with the “we’ll mail you a movie and you mail it back” model has the CEO Reed Hastings already alluding that by 2010, DVDS will take a backseat on the Netflix service:

    We recognize at some point in the long term, the streaming will be good enough that an appreciable number of people will find streaming is all they need.
    In her latest book, Secrets of Simplicity, author Mary Carlomagno offers some advice that I believe is pivotal for anyone that is reluctant to embrace change by technology, especially when it involves the primitive act of watching a movie:
    • Any technology you choose should save you time, not take more of your time.
    • Everyone’s work flow and life priorities are different, so choose technology that will best help achieve your unique goals.
    One thing for sure is that I already find myself watching movies through the Xbox 360 as oppose to playing games on it as its originally intended to, so I welcome Netflix’s new streaming model.

    2 years ago  /  Notes