Netflix lets one fly at Apple on the eve of MacWorld, in an attempt to blunt Apple’s reputed upcoming debut of $3.99 streaming/downloadable movie rentals.
For instance, under a popular plan that charges $16.99 per month to rent up to three DVDs at a time, Netflix customers could watch as many as 17 hours of entertainment each month on the streaming service, dubbed “Watch Instantly.”
With Monday’s change, virtually all Netflix subscribers will be able to stream as many movies and TV shows as they want from a library containing more than 6,000 titles. There will be no additional charge for the unlimited access.
Only the small portion of Netflix customers who pay $4.99 to rent up to two DVDs per month won’t be provided unlimited access to the streaming service.
I haven’t found much info on Netflix.com about the service — it’s a deluge of Sign Up Now! pages — or even if it works with Macs yet, but either way you need a high speed connection
January 14th, 2008 at 7:12 am
The streaming service Netflix offers continues to be a no go for me. My computing time is thankfully Windows free, but unfortunately Netflix has decided a Windows only DRM scheme was the appropriate technology to use for their streaming video service. Any DRM is an unfortunate compromise, but at least Apple’s technology targets both Windows and Mac OS X. True, that offers no consolation to potential customers using Linux, BSD, and other smaller operating systems that aren’t targeted by Apple’s DRM.