Netflix plays it safe taking its first steps outside of the United States, bringing streaming television shows and movies to our neighbours to the north later this year. Will Canadian console owners get the streaming service as well?
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So maybe I was a little hard on the loading times for streaming Netflix movies on the Wii yesterday. It could be worse; it could be the same service on a PS3.
Netflix completes its console triple play, as discs begin to ship for the Wii version of the US streaming video service.
How likely would someone in your household be to stream TV and movies from Netflix to a Nintendo DS, should such functionality be made available? That’s the question Netflix is seeking an answer to via an online survey. Would you watch?
Movie-hungry PlayStation 3 owners in the US are flooding our tips email with notifications that Netflix is now shipping out the Instant Streaming discs for the PS3 version of the streaming video service.
A study conducted by market research firm In-Stat indicates that video game consoles are the preeminent device for delivering web video to televisions in the U.S., generating $US2.9 billion in revenue by 2013.
