Cut & Paste from another SI Message Board
Here is a application that will enhance FTTH
Meanwhile, Netflix is introducing a service to deliver movies and television shows directly to PCs, not as downloads but as streaming video:
Netflix to Deliver Movies to the PC
By Miguel Helft | Jan 16, '07 | NY Times
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15 — Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, lists more than 5 dozen personalities whose obituaries were published prematurely. Someone may want to add Netflix to that list. The impending death of the company, with its online system for renting DVDs delivered by mail, was predicted late in 2002, when Wal-Mart said it would enter the business; again last year, when Apple and Amazon announced movie-downloading services; and again last week, after the
introduction of a series of products and services intended to bring Internet video to television sets. But Wal-Mart left the online rental business in 2005 and now refers customers to Netflix. Meanwhile, none of the movie-downloading services have gained much traction with consumers, the notion of taking Internet video content to TV sets remains a work in progress, and Netflix keeps signing up new customers at a fast clip. It was expected to end 2006 with 6.3 million
subscribers and nearly $1 billion in revenue, or about 12 percent of the $8.4 billion annual DVD rental market.
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