Netflix Launches Service for PC Couch Potatoes

Netflix is finally launching its long-anticipated online movie service. The new Watch Now service will make about 1,000 movies and TV shows available to subscribers over the Internet and will be rolled out over the next six months, adding 250,000 subscribers a week.

If you're already a Netflix subscriber, all you have to do is install a special browser applet--though you do need to be running Windows XP and have a broadband connection. But the really sweet part is the fact that there's no additional charge. For every dollar you spend on your Netflix subscription, you get an hour of viewing. So if you pay for the $17.99 per month plan (which gets you three DVDs at a time), you get to watch 18 hours online.

Of course, video will be streaming, not downloadable, so you won't be able to burn content to DVDs or take it with you on portable devices. But you will have full controls, including the ability to pause and jump ahead to any point in the movie or show you're watching.

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im sure someone will be coming out with a video catcher for that service and viola more torrents

DellsCommunistCapo

January 17, 2007

12:53 PM PT

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