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01/15/08 11:58 PM

#76179 RE: Tex #76175

Re; aTV, Netflix & getting video gratification right.

As a Canuck, I've had no direct experience with Netflix. (Similar services available here seem attractive to me -- though less so for the last couple of years that my household has been displayless.)

However, I witnessed a glitch in the DVD-by-mail model this December when we were visiting my daughter in Manhattan for a week over Christmas, and a couple of movies she had specially ordered to watch with the reassembled family never did arrive from Netflix. (Granted, Christmas is an extreme for postal congestion, but it may also be a prime viewing season.) The solution was going to be just using the streaming alternative from Netflix, but my computer geek son-in-law tried to get that working for an hour or so and finally gave up.

So, I came away thinking there might be a market for internet delivery AND a simple, just-works interface. (I have no idea if Apple's offering succeeds in this regard.)