DVD rental company Netflix said it plans to start an online movie download service next year. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings also said that the multibillion-dollar video game market is another related field that Netflix may or may not enter in the future. “We’re playing it a little defensively, because if we lose the digital download market, you’ll soon be hearing about the rise and fall of Netflix,” Hastings told Variety. Read More
Cricket Media today released Netflix Fanatic 1.1, an update to its US$10 application that allows you to easily manage your Netflix DVD rental queue. The software lets you drag-and-drop DVD titles to rearrange your Netflix queue, select two items in your queue and swap them, shuffle your queue for a better variety of movies, and more. Version 1.1 lets you search the Netflix DVD catalog by title, actor or director directly from the application.
Read MoreNetflix Fanatic 1.0 is a new application that allows you to easily manage your Netflix (a MacMinute advertiser) DVD rental queue. The software lets you drag-and-drop DVD titles to rearrange your Netflix queue, select two items in your queue and swap them, shuffle your queue for a better variety of movies, and more. Netflix Fanatic is US$10 shareware. Read More
