Netflix Readying Internet Film Delivery Service
Dust off the top of your TV, because you might just be sitting a Netflix set-top box there in the near future. The DVD rental company has filed a trademark application to protect its name in the realm of media delivery hardware that squirts you films over your broadband connection.
Netflix apparently demonstrated a number of low-cost boxes earlier this year to a focus group in the US (one member of whom promptly told Engadget all about it), with specs including component and HDMI on a $100 model and composite and S-video on a bargain $50 model. No HD content was seen.
The trademark description typically attempts to cover all the bases:
"Computer hardware, set top boxes and computer software, namely audio and video receivers and transmitters and computer software programs enabling receipt, download, playing, viewing, and rental of audio and video programming through the use of internet connections to computer hardware and receiver and transmitter apparatuses that connect to a television set or monitor"
Of course, there's no indication of when such a box might make it to market. We'll have to wait for it to be leaked via the FCC for that!