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Netflix wants to know if you’d like HBO streamed through its service
Netflix is poking around again to see what its subscribers are willing to pony up for. This time it’s asking about HBO, and if you want the ability to stream the premium station’s movies and original series through Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” service—possibly at an additional cost, of course.
Netflix is sending around a survey that tells subscribers to “Imagine Netflix gave you a way to instantly watch HBO original series and movies streamed from the Internet to your computer or TV,” according to the site Hacking NetFlix.
In the next breath, the movie rental giant wants to know if, on top of your regular subscription amount, would you pay $9.99 more per month. Everything else with your account wouldn’t be affected, but now you’d get the likes of “Big Love,” “Flight of the Conchords,” “Meet the Spartans,” “Smokin’ Aces” and such at your fingertips.
You’d be able to stream them the same way you can with the other 12,000-plus mainly-catalog selections from the “Watch Instantly” service—to your computer, Roku box, Xbox 360, TiVo, or Blu-ray player (LG BD 300 or Samsung BD-P2500 and BD-P2550 at the moment).
So, since the knock on Netflix’s steaming service seems to be the selections, does the addition of HBO make the service more tasty? And would you shell out $9.99 more per month just for HBO? Who knows what else might be added down the road, as there seems to be plenty of possibilities. But, heck, you’re already doing a buck more per month for Blu-ray disc access. We’d hope the HBO stuff is at least in HD where available.
Whaddaya say, Netflix subscribers?
i use netflix to stream to my 360. they do have hd movies and shows. i watch the seasons of the office in hd. the overall selection of the hd leave alot(and i mean ALOT!!) to be desired but it is there. but for hbo in hd. i would be willing to pay. for those people that don’t want to pay 15 a month for a movie package that they’ll probably only watch a few times. this could work out. some people are also turning to internet tv. which from what i’ve used a few times isn’t bad if you can remember the websites.
Please, let’s don’t let happen to video what happened to music with the advent of mp3. The mindless masses have chosen such a lossy format as mp3 over HD formats like DVD Audio and SACD. I use Netflix’s watch instantly service all the time and have no complaints because I understand the limitations of streaming video over the internet. I would be willing to pay at most $3 a month more for unlimited HBO streaming, but still it’s a waste of a perfectly good HDTV. Internet video streaming is still not quite ready for prime time, so why should I pay a prime price for it? My vote: bring it on, but not at $10/month.
so for $13 per month I can get HBO, with HBO Video On Demand that allows me to watch whatever movie is playing this month “on demand” and original series AND HD, or for $3 less, get not quite all that in questionable (yet still watchable) quality? no thank you. HD streaming should come first.
I’ve had Netflix for the past few years…
DVD’s in mail are great. But streaming quality is awful. Where’s the HD???
We’ve been actually been using the networks online archives lately. They seem current enough & quality is great. HBO? $10? Ha! - not interested. I want HD.
It would be nice if all the networks could bring all their content together under a service like Netflix. I’d pay for that.
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They should organize it so that HBO customers DO NOT have to pay anything extra. If you already pay for HBO via cable/sat, you get a verification code and can stream it via Netflix for no additional cost!