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Netflix in Canada fall 2010

When it comes to digital content distribution, the United States has had a huge jump on other countries, largely because most of the big distributors have all been US companies.  When Netflix first started out, it was a DVD subscription service, but they quickly embraced the digital distribution via subscription model.  This has made the company the go-to service for not only movies but television distributed online. After years of expecting a Canadian company would pick up the ball, it appears that Netflix itself has managed to wrangle a deal…

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Will Zip.ca be Netflix For Canada?

When it comes to digital film and TV distribution, one of the most popular services out there is the US Netflix.com rental site.  Netflix started as a DVD rental company, allowing monthly subscribers to rent as many via mail as they could handle.  More recently, Netflix added digital ‘rentals’, so that current subscribers could instantly watch any movie available online using a variety of methods, from the desktop computer to embedded players found in a multitude of devices. In Canada, Zip.ca has been operating under the Netflix DVD model for…

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