6 posts and columns on Netflix Player

Weighing Devices for Your Netflix Delivered via Web

in Personal Technology on December 3, 2008 at 6:18 pm PT

By Nick Wingfield

Netflix was a pioneer in the business of movie rentals — getting consumers to rent DVDs online and mailing them out in cheery red envelopes. Recently, it has put a lot of effort into a service that delivers movies digitally over the Internet to subscribers, preparing for a day when getting movies on a physical disc will become outmoded.

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Sony and Roku Try To Join TV to Web, But No Merger Yet

in Personal Technology on August 13, 2008 at 6:06 pm PT

Two set-top boxes have been launched to try to marry the Internet and the TV. Both adapters, from Sony and Roku, worked well in tests, but each has limitations.
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If You Know the Name of the Movie You'd Like to See, Press ❑

in News on July 16, 2008 at 12:18 pm PT

Now that Sony has completed its transformation from disruptive innovator to struggling consumer electronics player, it’s embarking on its next big corporate makeover: reinvention as “a global provider of networked consumer electronics and entertainment.” And so it’s begun offering a video-downloading service for its PlayStation 3 videogame console.

If You Know the Name of the Movie You’d Like to See, Press ?

in News on July 16, 2008 at 12:18 pm PT

Now that Sony has completed its transformation from disruptive innovator to struggling consumer electronics player, it’s embarking on its next big corporate makeover: reinvention as “a global provider of networked consumer electronics and entertainment.” And so it’s begun offering a video-downloading service for its PlayStation 3 videogame console.

If You Know the Name of the Movie You’d Like to See, Press ?

in News on July 16, 2008 at 12:18 pm PT

Now that Sony has completed its transformation from disruptive innovator to struggling consumer electronics player, it’s embarking on its next big corporate makeover: reinvention as “a global provider of networked consumer electronics and entertainment.” And so it’s begun offering a video-downloading service for its PlayStation 3 videogame console.