Sony can add Netflix Instant Watch capability

[ThePhantomOak]

Originally Posted by WVUFloydFan

This is from the Netflix Analyst Day 2008 webcast:



It seems as if the ball is now in Sony's court. As a long time Netflix subscriber I would love to see this implemented for the PS3.

This is NOTHING new. Netflix has had this service to computers for a while, and with PS3 able to run whatever it wants, it is a shock that Sony has not jumped on the bandwagon to trump Microsoft with movies like this. Hell, Sony could easily let users download Netflix, and iTunes (or any web app the user wants) and it would finally truly live up to its name as the hub of your entertainment room.

I assume the ONLY reason Sony has not added allowed this ability with the pre installed OS, and will not any time soon (soon given that PS3 came out with the ability to do it), is because Sony has not figured out a way to gain some profit from it. Without profit sharing this will never happen, and I dont blame Sony at all. It is still a company, not a charity, but it sure would be nice.



There are two real holdups to Downloading and streaming movies. One is the Studios (The Economist had a good article on that about 2 months ago), the other, more daunting hold up, is bandwidth. Sites like YouTube with very low quality video are already pushing our infrastructure to the brink of being totally overwhelmed. The only way to fix this is have the bottlenecks in the system expanded. Right now the bottlenecks are the copper wires. In the US and developed Europe, the costs to replace copper wire with fiber optic is FAR to expensive to undertake to allow downloadable movies...

MAYBE in developing nations it will catch on in the future, but for HD disks to get pushed aside for downloading something? Not going to happen for a good 15 to 30 years. RIGHT NOW it would take about 16 hours to download a full movie at the same quality that you get with BD. If JUST the early adopters watched movies like that, it would slow to about 3 or 5 times that (copper wire, either with cable or twowire/cat5 can only transfer so many bits a second... and we all share that same wire)...

It aint going to replace BD, at best it will supplement it.