Coalition calls on CRTC to examine Internet services like Netflix

No, not that coalition...



They should get with the program. On-demand programming beats scheduled programming any day. I pay for cable TV, but I'm increasingly wondering why. When I can pay $8/month to watch whatever movie I want, whenever I want. Why pay $50/month to watch commercials, when the only thing I watch on cable TV is the news. I could get that free over-the-air.

Netflix isn't that great, it's ok but most of the shows are pretty dated. And don't you watch the History channel, man get with it. I love that channel.

Netflix and other web content has replaced cable/dish TV in our household.

I'm no longer lining the pockets of Bell and Shaw by paying for overpriced TV packages.

I just think the broadcast industry's old model is going to die. Same with the music industry's recorded media. The CRTC has no business propping up an obsolete business model.

It's a tough call, netflix is pretty dated, good if you want movies out lats year or old SNL re-runs. I see it as the first step towards bigger and better online programing though. Sites like Veetle ect are broadcasting a wide range of on demand programming too so...

Please Mr. CRTC, uphold our outdated business models! We can't make 80% profit based on the Netflix model! Make them go away! Waaaaaaaaaa!

They want netflicks to be outlawed and failing that make it so expensive to access that they have no selection and what they can get they can use until everyone else has made as much money as they can out of it and then they still have to wait 6 months.

Netflicks could be amazing and force the industry to modernize or it could be forced to be marginalized from the market. Should be interesting to see ho the CRTC handles this. I bet they will force netflicks to become candianized much like they did with satellite radio. Some sort of middle ground that makes no one happy.

If you don't mind watching old movies, than yea, it's the perfect fit.

I'd just get a HD antenna and get the regular over the air channels as most of them carry the decent programming anyways.

What else do I get with my basic cable package? Really old movies, with commercials. I could watch Goonies on Netflix or watch it on TBS when they show it. For anything current, I'd probably go with Usenet.

The "old model" doesn't ask someone else to deliver their product for free. Nor does it have millions of out-of-touch so-cheap-they-squeak-if-they-walk customers demanding someone else deliver the product free.

I see Sony is advertising internet TV. That's the way things will go. Download your programs and channels and watch what you want, when you want it.

What else do I get with my basic cable package? Really old movies, with commercials. I could watch Goonies on Netflix or watch it on TBS when they show it. For anything current, I'd probably go with Usenet.

Netflix is doing their own original weekly series, and signed with Paramount for their new same-day-as-DVD releases. The problem with myths is they go *pop* when confronted with reality. And there's no 'I didn't pay my way' guilt.

I love my Boxee Box. It's my new entertainment friend.

What are you talking about? Seriously.

Do you work for an ISP or something? I assume your little rant is complaining that users have the audacity to actually use their internet connections? Last time I checked you needed to pay the ISP to get on the internet, so who is asking who to deliver what for free?

The second half of your rant is about a company that has managed to drive prices lower for consumers, you are seriously complaining about that? Lower prices are a bad thing, paying those lower prices makes you cheap? I guess I should just pay more for cable because that's how its always been done damnit?

Haha, your comment is so clueless its amazing.

I'm not who you were responding to, but certainly you see that something has got to give eventually as people cancel their cable packages and go online for movies/tv.. Netflix doesn't give me the most recent episode of the shows I watch, but its about the closest thing to a model that might work to replace cable tv. I don't think anybody will ever convince people to watch commercial breaks in the online world, when they can get the shows without them on bittorrent or usenet either.

None of the money you give to your ISP for Internet service goes to Hollywood if that's what you think.