NetFlix Comes Of Age

NetFlix allows members paying $8.95/month or higher to stream movies from its library to a computer of their choice. The natural next step is to stream that content to the TV.

Over the last year, intrepid hackers have pieced together one solution that allows NetFlix content to be streamed to the TV using the XBOX 360 Windows Media Center.

If you don’t have an XBOX 360, you’re out of luck.

Until now.

NetFlix’s plans of dominating the living room have begun, with the introduction of a $99 box by Roku that slices, dices, and streams video without a hitch. Wired Magazine calls it “just shy of totally amazing.”

The player has access to more than 10,000 movies and TV shows, and will expand to close in on the nearly 100,000 that NetFlix offers in traditional DVD format.

Its competition, the Apple iTV, costs $229, but sports a hard drive, which the Roku box is without. Another competitor, Vudu, costs $295.

Apple is going with the a la carte model for media, but perhaps in this race, $8.95/month will win out. We’ll have to wait and see.

TV boxes let Netflix users bypass mail delivery - AP

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