Netflix and Samsung Blu-Ray Team Up

Netflix and Samsung recently announced that two of Samsung’s Blu-Ray players (the BD-P2550 and BD-P2500) now have the ability to stream the Netflix service. Samsung and Netflix also plan to bring the movie/tv subscription service to more of Samsung’s consumer electronics in the future.

To make it happen, the Samsung Blu-ray player communicates with Netflix via its internet connection, then a Netflix interface appears onscreen. You sign into your account, enter an activation code, and you’ll then be able to stream “dvd picture quality movies and TV episodes”. According to their marketing material, there are currently over 12,000 movies and TV episodes to choose from on Netflix.

It remains to be seen how many people own an HD/Blu-Ray setup that would be in the market for streaming DVD-quality movies through a subscription based model like NetFlix. One might wonder if a consumer already has a Blu-Ray player, and an internet connection (and
computer), they might already be getting their DVD content from, ummm… “other” sources.

[Link to Press Release]

Ryan started his working days at Electronic Arts Canada in the QA department, testing enough games so that now, whenever he picks up a game controller, the dark urge to rip the game’s design apart and critique almost every element never really subsides, ever… More recently, Ryan worked on the 200 episodes of the TV show “The Lab with Leo” where he presented “Yewell’s Jewels”, demo-ing a free file in (almost) every episode. Ryan has also been a writer/editor for a weekly 5-7 minute online video called “GameTap News”, before gametap.com closed its doors on its editorial division, and he now works for Greedy Productions as the news editor of EP Daily. Ryan also writes a monthly article for a PC Update, a magazine based out of Melbourne, Australia.