Comments on: The Netflix Box That Never Was

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Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:15:15 +0000

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Kodak’s Theater HD Player Needs Better Connections — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:02:09 +0000

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By: timekeeper

timekeeper — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:23:37 +0000

Does the Wii have enough horsepower to do video? What about HD support?

I'd question it's viability as a video platform for anything other than low bandwidth low resolution video.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:02:12 +0000

The biggest streaming box in the next few years will be the Wii if Nintendo North America will get off its ass and allow Flash 9 support to for the Wii either via Wiiware or the Wii Internet Channel .

Nrtflix have been asking thier customers if they would like a Netflix Wii Channel recently and a few other content agregators like Joost have been investingation alternative platforms like games consoles .

With the Wii's reach and place in living rooms in many households Nintendo could be on a potential goldmine if they licence and revenue share with content aggregators .Nintendo Japan sees the value of streaming video and now has two video on demand challes in demand one of which is a WiiWare title .

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:55:26 +0000

Trust me, I know. It's an ugly little plastic thing made from off the shelf parts no doubt. However, the concept, employees, and millions of dollars were transferred/invested to/in Roku with Anthony Wood reclaiming his CEO position and vacating his Netflix VP position. I'm just sad their very nice Soundbridge product seems to have been abandoned.

By: Chris Albrecht

Chris Albrecht — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:03:29 +0000

Uhh, Dave. The Roku box isn't METALLIC. Sheesh.

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Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:26:52 +0000

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By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:09:04 +0000

The box was given to Roku along with a few dozen employees and a multimillion dollar investment.

By: timekeeper

timekeeper — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:30:38 +0000

Just check out their profit numbers. I think they're doing just fine.

The beauty of moving their entire operation to silicon and electrons is that the cost of processing approaches zero. No more handling, shipping and storing of physical media.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:31:44 +0000

I am no expert on this, but it seems like you are missing one pertinent fact. That Netflix subscriber fee also needs to pay for their base business of acquiring, storing, handling and shipping physical DVD's. Oh - and not to forget all the advertising they do in physical and digital forms. So, I am not quite sure the numbers are quite as solid as one would think.