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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
@drole...I read this in three other sites and I still think that eventually netflix will try harder to push people away from disks. I mean, they already pushed people away from Blockbuster and the streaming option has grown tremendously within ONE year. They have brokered deals with Starz, ABC and Disney and almost had one with HBO, which would have been a coup, so I would really keep an eye on Netflix this year especially since their price went up.
Hulu needs to start looking over its shoulder.
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Hulu will do fine I think as long as it focuses on the current shows, Netflix is better for back catalogs. That said, there are a LOT of people without access to broadband internet in this country due to location or income. Even if we don't see heavy metering/usage caps from the current companies, discs aren't going away soon, and only Netflix is really in a position to serve that population. The studios aren't too interested in making streaming available so quickly that people want to stop buying DVDs and BluRays. Streaming BluRay/HD quality is even more bandwidth draining so that's a whole other issue. Having a physical backup of the movies we buy still makes people more likely to buy a disc than just a digital copy. There are just all sorts of issues involved.
So while that may be the eventual direction I don't think that we're going to shift away in the next five years. Netflix itself might, but I think someone else will jump in that gap if so.
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