Post #16

I decided to read another article from engadget.com that discusses the different devices that can stream HD video content to your TV. Devices that you may have heard of that can do this is the Roku Netfix Box, Tivo, Xbox 360, and some Blu-Ray players. This is becoming an increasing trend, to build this capability into devices, to entice customers to buy their product, because they may already have a Netflix account. The large drawback of buying a device like the Roku box, is that the amount of content that can be streamed to the box is extremely sparse with there only being a handful of good movies that you can watch, and a plethora of garbage movies that you've never heard of. If services like Netflix would be able to expand their entire library to be able to be streamed to a box, it would probably eliminate the entire need to send people discs in the mail. That may be the future of content rental. Especially after seeing TVs with Netflix built in at CES, this could definitely be the difference of someone buying one TV or the other if they are of comparable price.