Netflix to Sell Movies, TV Shows Online

By Steve Donohue -- Multichannel News, 1/16/2007 11:42:00 AM

Netflix said early Tuesday that it plans to launch a service in June that will allow subscribers to download TV shows and movies to their computers from a library of about 1,000 titles. The service has long been anticipated from Netflix, which built its business via mailing DVDs to its subscribers.

Initial movie studios supplying content include NBC Universal, Sony Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., New Line Cinema and Lionsgate.

Subscription prices will vary. Netflix said subscribers to its $17.99 monthly unlimited DVD rental plan will be able to download 18 hours of online movies each month. Subscribers to the entry-level $5.99 plan will get six hours of online viewing.

Netflix said several TV networks and production companies are also supplying TV shows, including A&E Television Networks, Anime Network, Allumination FilmWorks, BBC Worldwide, Cinema Libre Studios, Egami Media, Film Movement, Hart Sharp Video, The Independent Film Channel, Magnolia Pictures, New Video Group, New Yorker Films, Palm Pictures, Seventh Art , Silvernitrate Entertainment, Starz Digital, ThinkFilm, Video Action Sports, WMG Productions and Wolfe Video.

Talkback

» Submit Feedback

• I wonder of netflicks will come out with a box/adapter of some kind so that we can view on TV as well as computer

  '>
  

  I wonder of netflicks will come out with a box/adapter of some kind so that we can view on TV as well as computer

  
  

  
  aydeet - 6/19/2008 12:09:00 PM EDT
» Submit Feedback
}

Related Content

• Topics
• Author

Blockbuster Uploads Movielink

08/08/2007

Netflix Queues Up Sony's PlayStation 3

10/25/2009

Via Web, Netflix Subs Can 'Watch Now'

01/21/2007

NBCU to Sell TV Shows Through Amazon

09/04/2007

Correction

06/12/2005

Also by this author

• Veteran Execs to Launch Diginet Incubator

• INTERACTIVE LAYOFFS

• ‘Brady Bunch’ Mom Launches Retirement Living TV Program

• EchoStar Holding Recruits Dean Olmstead

• Puppies in High Def: Animal Planet Shoots ‘Puppy Bowl IV’

More >>>

Product Wire

• Resource Center
• Browse Categories
• Browse Companies

Featured Company

• Akamai

  

  Akamai has created a digital operating environment for the Web. Our global platform of thousands of specially-equipped servers helps the Internet withstand the crush of daily requests for rich, dynamic, and interactive content, transactions, and... more

• Parks Associates

  

  Parks Associates is an internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing in emerging consumer technology products and services. Founded in 1986, Parks Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from... more

• Digital Rapids

  

  Digital Rapids is the leading provider of professional hardware and software tools, technology and expertise for bringing video to wider audiences and new viewing platforms. Continuing to set new standards in quality, productivity and versatility... more

• Telestream

  

  Telestream products are used by the world's leading media and entertainment companies and corporations for transcoding and workflow automation. Telestream helps customers transform their media for multiplatform distribution to web, mobile, DVD... more

---

Most Recent Resources

• Robust Encoding, Transcoding and Streaming Systems – Critical...
• Broadband Services: The Turning Point
• IPTV and the Digital Home
• Fixing The Annual Rate Adjustment Planning & Execution Process
• Webcast: IDC assesses the Online HD video opportunity with CTV ...