Netflix sour on video downloads

Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings thinks video-on-demand won’t develop into a major market for several years.

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Jesse Kopelman says:

November 10, 2005 at 3:00 pm

He’s right, but can he afford to not to be the first serious player in that market?

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Dave McClure says:

November 11, 2005 at 12:56 am

yeah, and Steve Jobs said video-based PDAs didn’t make much sense… about 9 months before the video iPod shipped.

the CEO ‘vision’ has a lot to do with what product pipeline looks like, and how close the company is to shipping the next Insanely Great Thing.

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