Short clip: Netflix streaming movies right to your TV

November 11, 2008, 10:33am PST | Length: 00:01:15
Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer of Netflix, believes that the future of movies is going to go right back to the television. With bigger and better digital televisions, what people want is to be able to download movies right to their sets via high-speed internet. Netflix has taken a step towards this by already offering streaming through Blue-Ray players.

Transcript

Short clip: Netflix streaming movies right to your TV

>>What's the next platform? Do you imagine that perhaps video could be streamed to mobile devices, to your cell phone?

>>Well when we talk to our customers the television is really where people want to watch movies. And so we've made significant progress this year including streaming client platform into Blueray players and we certainly hope to continue to pursue that with other partners through next year and beyond. But fundamentally digital televisions, there's a big change coming in 2009 with the termination of analog broadcasting and we see an acceleration of sales of digital televisions into consumers homes. So we see the television as an important platform to begin to add streaming technology directly into a television. So imagine the television with an Ethernet jack or better, a WiFi connection that's able to talk directly to the Internet and inaudible services would be able to deliver streaming Netfliks directly to that television screen without needing another platform, another box, another device in the house.

==== Transcribed by Automatic Sync Technologies ====

Short clip: Netflix: Rights management via Silverlight

Short clip: Netflix: Rights management via Silverlight

Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer of Netflix, says that by using Silverlight's "play ready"...

Short clip: Netflix on staying ahead of competition

Short clip: Netflix on staying ahead of competition

Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer of Netflix, claims the company is well-positioned to stay...

Netflix Chief Product Officer: Neil Hunt

Netflix Chief Product Officer: Neil Hunt

Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer of Netflix talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about...

Short clip: Verizon launches widget store

Short clip: Verizon launches widget store

Shadman Zafar, CIO of Verizon Telecom, discusses the launch of the company’s new widget store...

Drew Martin, CIO, Sony Electronics

Drew Martin, CIO, Sony Electronics

Drew Martin, CIO of Sony Electronics, speaks to ZDNet Editor in Chief, Larry Dignan about how IT...

Short clip: Verisign making smart phones secure

Short clip: Verisign making smart phones secure

Ken Silva, CTO of Verisign, says blocking new technologies from coming into your company, isn't...

Special Olympics CIO: Andre Mendes

Special Olympics CIO: Andre Mendes

Andre Mendes, CIO of the Special Olympics, talks to CNET's Dan Farber about managing technology...

Talkback - Tell Us What You Think

Formatting +
BB Codes - Note: HTML is not supported in forums
  • [b] Bold [/b]
  • [i] Italic [/i]
  • [u] Underline [/u]
  • [s] Strikethrough [/s]
  • [q] "Quote" [/q]
  • [ol][*] 1. Ordered List [/ol]
  • [ul][*] · Unordered List [/ul]
  • [pre] Preformat [/pre]
  • [quote] "Blockquote" [/quote]

The best of ZDNet, delivered

ZDNet Newsletters

Get the best of ZDNet delivered straight to your inbox

White Papers, Webcasts, & Resources

Facebook Activity