Now, however, Blockbuster, hurt by the emergence of the home delivered rental and the pay-per-view movie, is more than a billion dollars in debt.NetFlix pioneered the home delivered movie rental, an offshoot of the movie rental business, in 1999. NetFlix now offers more than 100,000 TV show and movie titles from their library. Vudu, TiVo, Apple's iTunes, NetFlix, and Amazon.com currently offer video content via a broadband Internet connection. However, the number of movies in the download libraries is a bit less than the DVD libraries, with about 10,000 movies now available for download on NetFlix.Most of the services are either offering movies in HDTV format, or planning to do so soon. Video quality is difficult to compare between the different services. The video compression algorithm, called a Codec, plays a significant role. The best objective method to compare signal quality is bit-rate. A comparison of bit-rate for some of the current online video alternatives:Servic e..... Bit-Rate (mbps)Vudu HDX.......... 9-20 Vudu HD................ 4 Xbox..................... 7 iTunes................... 4 Cable TV......... 10-15 Satellite.............. 6-8 Blu-Ray................ 40Prices are coming down for the equipment needed for these services. Vudu slashed the price of their set-top box to $99 for the 2008 Christmas season (from about $300), but $50 of movie credits needed to be purchased with the hardware.Kudos to Vudu for their online service. The interface has been compared to IMDB.com (a movie-buff website). You see an actor, select the resume, and you can see what other movies they've been in, and easily find your selection. It's makes the process absolutely pleasant.A significant downside of video downloads in the unavailability of recent releases. Movies are generally unavailable for at least a month after release, in order to protect the brick and mortar movie theater market. This is unlikely to change, at least in the near-term.Accordin g to Joshua Danovitz (TiVo), the issue of download limits differs in each country. In the United States and parts of Asia, bandwidth capacity is still available and Internet users have fewer constraints, while other countries, including Canada, the ISPs are starting to restrict users bandwidth consumption. The problem will only get worse with the increased popularity of video downloads. Today, more than half of Internet bandwidth utilization in the United States is peer-to-peer, and most of that is video download. Peer-to-peer traffic is notoriously hard to control.It is likely that the movie distribution business will follow the path blazed by the audio distribution business. The only reason for the time lag is that video files are much larger, and the Online capability was not yet ready.Google's Chrome browser is in news again. After the daily updates and improvements in the rival browsers, Google seems to have fastened improvements on its side. Microsoft's Silver-light so ftware is weary now, as it requires users to download and install it onto their computers. You guessed it right; the news is around about Netflix joining the Chrome plugin development category. It works with any AJAX-based website. While, you find out more on this OS, we will catch up with you offering details of the OS in our next.Back to PluginStories of Google Chrome plugin development is scattered in various areas.
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