A New Day Dawns For Netflix Users

Beginning yesterday Netflix subscribers now have unlimited access to online movie viewing. Netflix, known primarily for their online DVD by mail service, officially announced the change Sunday evening. From the Netflix site:

Netflix membership plans that come with unlimited DVDs per month come with unlimited instant watching, regardless of the number of discs you may have at home at any given time. Plans with a cap on monthly total discs come with a specific number of instant watching hours per month.

So for subscribers at the lower limited use levels will only get to watch a hours of video equal to the dollar amount of their subscription, but everyone else will get unlimited viewing of all 6,000 movies and TV shows currently available. The impact of this service will only increase when Netflix and LG release their set-top box that will allow you to watch movies on your TV via Netflix streaming; the 'first of many' such devices reportedly in the works.

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