Netflix And Bravia Form Possibly Unholy Alliance
I say possibly, of course, because it isn’t like this is the first time Netflix managed to link up with a device provider to make their streaming video a bit easier to deal with. Samsung, a host of Blu-ray players, lots more. So now Sony’s Bravia television becomes one more brick in Netflix’s wall of streaming video.
All you’ll need is an internet capable Bravia, and the latest software upgrades, and you’ll be able to stream from Netflix’s pretty well massive library of at last count over a thousand titles.
This is, of course, awesome. But as far as I can see it’s like polishing the brass on the Titanic. There’s still a huge portion of the populace that can’t use this service, or can only use it in vastly reduced quantities because they plain old don’t have the bandwidth. It’s great that the number of devices that can access this service increases almost with every passing week, but until that basic hurdle is overcome, there’s just no way it’ll get as far as it can.