Monday night, Netflix released an update to their iOS video streaming app – consisting of some bug fixes and iPhone video out capabilities. Basically, items so minor that I didn’t even bother taking a screengrab. Fast forward about half a day and the blogosphere has written off all set-top boxes and pay TV:
This update now positions Netflix as somewhat of a competitor to Apple’s newly refreshed Apple TV platform, Google’s upcoming Google TV service, media center boxes like Boxee and Roku and even some cable company DVRs like those provided to Verizon FiOS customers, for example, which already offer an assortment of popular TV shows and movies for free streaming.
I can’t even bring myself to reiterate all the ways in which video out is a poor solution, unless you live in a dorm room or travel for work. But here’s what we collectively had to say on Twitter yesterday, in reverse chronological order (as in: start at the bottom and read up).