Download Netflix movies to your TiVo

[Digital*Firefly]

source: reuters.com

Whole article (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6169442)


Online DVD renter Netflix Inc. and television recorder maker TiVo Inc. are close to a deal to allow Netflix subscribers to download movies over the Internet to their TiVo devices, according to the latest issue of Newsweek magazine

[Blackwolf]

Yeah, we've been theorizing how this would actually work and if cable companies (as in, cablemodems) would allow it.

The idea is to download the movie to your TiVo over your broadband connection. Cable companies are known to shut off the broadband service to people who download excessive amounts for a long period of time.

[Digital*Firefly]

Yeah, we've been theorizing how this would actually work and if cable companies (as in, cablemodems) would allow it.

The idea is to download the movie to your TiVo over your broadband connection. Cable companies are known to shut off the broadband service to people who download excessive amounts for a long period of time.
That sucks. I like the idea, I'd definitely do it if the cost was right.

[Blackwolf]

I don't know if the cost will be right or not. But it would basically work the same way as your TiVo would, it would download the movie and put it in your Now Playing list. When you watched it and deleted it, it'd start downloading the next movie in your queue. It'd still take a long time to do it, though, and it would interfere with anything else you were doing on your ISP.

[Digital*Firefly]

If you had to pay extra to download I wouldn't do it.

[Duality]

I, too, am curious how this would work.

They could make this viable with limited filesizes if the TiVo units had the ability to use some sort of OGM/MKV container derivative -- these file formats can contain a compressed video (usually DivX/XviD), and multiple audio tracks and subtitles. This means you could potentially include most film content in under 2GB or so -- compared to the 4-9GB a full DVDR image is.

[Ziggler]

I, too, am curious how this would work.

They could make this viable with limited filesizes if the TiVo units had the ability to use some sort of OGM/MKV container derivative -- these file formats can contain a compressed video (usually DivX/XviD), and multiple audio tracks and subtitles. This means you could potentially include most film content in under 2GB or so -- compared to the 4-9GB a full DVDR image is.


:smt064 what he said^^