Bozter - how would they be shooting themselves in the foot? The CE industry just wants to shift boxes. They don't care how many plastic discs get sold by some other party, as long as their boxes of electronics sell.
If Netflix is the way to push expensive boxes, they'll add it, and they'll add the best implementation they can get away with. With Netflix just requiring Internet access, H.264/VC-1 (not sure which), and some easily decoded audio codec, adding Netflix support to a Profile 2.0 player is just a matter of putting out a firmware update.
Makes me wish Toshiba would push out Netflix support in a firmware update for their HD DVD players - which have all the right hardware features too, wonder if Netflix could pay them to do it...
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squiggleslash @ Nov 3rd 2008 10:19AM
Bozter - how would they be shooting themselves in the foot? The CE industry just wants to shift boxes. They don't care how many plastic discs get sold by some other party, as long as their boxes of electronics sell.
If Netflix is the way to push expensive boxes, they'll add it, and they'll add the best implementation they can get away with. With Netflix just requiring Internet access, H.264/VC-1 (not sure which), and some easily decoded audio codec, adding Netflix support to a Profile 2.0 player is just a matter of putting out a firmware update.
Makes me wish Toshiba would push out Netflix support in a firmware update for their HD DVD players - which have all the right hardware features too, wonder if Netflix could pay them to do it...