YouTube Takes Direct Aim At Netflix By Adding 3,000 New Movies To Rental Service

COMMENTS (6)

• I have no reason to ever rent anything from YouTube. YouTube is not to pay for junk, it’s to watch things for free. If that’s the direction it plans to go in, Napster is saving a seat for them at the loser’s table.

  Comment by Sorry — Monday May 9, 2011 @ 2:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Will they be cheaper then Netflix? If so then maybe they could make a dent.

  Comment by Don — Monday May 9, 2011 @ 4:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Thank god the behemoth’s are all killing each other over the wrong model. Hilarious.

  Comment by Mark Vega — Monday May 9, 2011 @ 4:26pm PDT  Reply to this post

• How is this going after Netflix? It sounds like they are competing with Amazon’s VOD business which is also available on most of the Netflix TV devices, not Netflix itself. Most people get Netflix because they can watch whatever junk they want, whenever they want, as many times as they want without paying individual rental fees. They accept that the trade-off is not getting the latest stuff. Any model that’s going to charge a per-movie fee and limit the viewing duration or frequency is not competing with Netflix.

  Comment by J — Monday May 9, 2011 @ 5:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• You Tube only posts videos from past daytime soaps.

  Comment by Joe — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 5:45am PDT  Reply to this post

• When a critical mass of people connect the internet to the TVs this will be relevant and by then Comcast will probably own Google.

  Comment by Joe — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 6:53am PDT  Reply to this post