Netflix links online DVD service to Facebook

March 25, 2009 Netflix workers sort DVDs at the company's Piscataway, New Jersey, distribution center

Netflix workers sort DVDs at the company's Piscataway, New Jersey, distribution center on March 10, 2009. Netflix has linked to Facebook, and Blockbuster is making films available on-demand to users of TiVo digital recorder devices as the US DVD rental giants continue an Internet-age duel.

Netflix has linked to Facebook, and Blockbuster is making films available on-demand to users of TiVo digital recorder devices as the US DVD rental giants continue an Internet-age duel.

Netflix members that belong to Facebook can connect to the online DVD rental service from the social-networking community website to rate films, write reviews, or recommend movies to friends.

"We believe the movies make for great conversations," Netflix vice president of product management Gibson Biddle wrote in a Facebook blog post on Tuesday.

"With Facebook Connect, we hope it will be easier for you to share the movies you love with all your friends."

Blockbuster and TiVo on Tuesday unveiled an alliance to make Blockbuster's library of premium digital movies available on-demand through TiVo digital video recorders (DVRs) that connect to television sets.

Blockbuster said that it will sell the TiVo DVR models at its US stores and at its website.

Rate this story - not rated yet

rank
1
2
3
4
5

view popular

Other News

Software takes a hard look at traffic fatalities

Technology / Software

57 minutes ago | not rated yet | 0

Bergen County Police and a Hackensack, N.J., drug treatment center are among a growing number of agencies using a software program to identify dangerous intersections, spot teen driving trends and reduce accident fatalities.

Facebook creates dual-class structure, but no IPO

Technology / Business

5 hours ago | 1 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure designed to give founder Mark Zuckerberg and other existing shareholders control over the company.

Selling chip makers on optical computing

Technology / Semiconductors

9 hours ago | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chips that transmit data with light instead of electricity consume much less power than conventional chips, but so far, they've remained laboratory curiosities. Professors Vladimir ...

Taking the drudgery out of software development

Technology / Software

5 hours ago | 3 / 5 (2) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Software developers will no longer have to reinvent the wheel when writing new programs and applications thanks to a clever new set of tools and a central repository of 'building blocks'.

Senators press EU to speed its Oracle-Sun probe

Technology / Business

3 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- U.S. senators are pressuring European antitrust regulators to hurry their investigation of Oracle Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing Sun's "precarious" financial condition and fears about ...