Via Nigorimasen comes the news of another bulk streaming shutdown, this time at Netflix. I never used the service, because it required Windows-specific software, but others did (I recall that Nick Istre watched Kurau that way).

We really need another DTO challenger like BOST (R.I.P.).

UPDATE: Nick elaborates, including this:

In truth, I had never used my computer to watch Netflix streaming video, but I have a Samsung Blu-ray player that can also do the Netflix streaming straight to my main A/V stack.

Behold the awesome power of this fully armed and operational market incumbent. The sort of deal-making between A/V equipment makers and the content distributors in the "consumer" space is largely ignored by forward-looking anime fan crowd, but every time I'm reminded that exists, I'm impressed that it's even possible. If only this power were a force of good.