Mike Cooper

Netflix's Roku is Doomed to Fail

Do you have cable Steve? What is 90% of cable? Old movies and TV shows. Netflix is offering the same for 1/4th the price of a cable subscription, with one upfront charge of $99.00.

And your belief that customers will pass on Roku when they can simply (theoretically?) stream PC content to their Xbox 360 game console just as soon as they figure out how to hack the Netflix/Microsoft DRM...what the hell was that?? How much money have you got invested in the belief that ANYONE is going to do that??

And your reasoning about "people not wanting more boxes in their living room", stumbles on your strange definition of "people". Maybe the kind of advice your making here actually earns you enough to own a satelitte dish or digital cable (at least you didn't say both!), an Xbox 360, full home theater, TiVo, AppleTV and a stereo system along have a "Media Center PC" doing nothing in an attic (or was it in your home office? I forget...). Unfortunately most "people" don't have the problem of too many $1000.00 + toys cluttering up their living rooms.