Netflix offers unrestricted downloads

6,000 movies plus TV shows available on monthly subscription

Big companies are adapting their market strategies more frequently to boost their sales. A great example is Netflix Inc., U.S. main mail-order movie-rental service. The corporate initiated such a strategy by providing unlimited downloads including movies and television programs over the Internet to the majority of its clients based on a monthly subscription choice.

Those who choose to subscribe discover there are 6,000 movies and TV shows available for downloading for which they won’t be extra charged. Among the movies available there are Letters from Iwo Jima a 2007 release, The Core, a 2003 release, Cops and Robbersons (1994) etc.

Coincidentally or not, Netflix’s statement preceded by only one day Apple Inc.'s predictable strategy to give iTunes users to possibility to rent and buy films. Raising the steaks to Netflix's service Apple come with an extra iTunes users new DVD releases for rent.

Subscribing to Netflix's unlimited rental plans comes with a downloading time limit depending on the “packet” you buy. The monthly rental plan starts from $8.99. Paying $16.99 per month allows you a downloading time of 17 hours.

Netflix dropped 64 cents ( 2.7 percent), to $22.77 on Monday. Apple grows by $6.09 (3.5 percent), to $178.78. Blockbuster dropped 20 cents (5.8 percent) to $3.23.

However, Netflix tries to keep up with the offering and its 7 million customers have been promised a set-top box that Netflix plans to create in partnership with South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. this means that subscribers will be able to watch Internet films and shows on a TV screen.

In 2007, Apple released its $299 tool that lets customers play digital TV shows and movies they have bought from iTunes on widescreen TVs.

Netflix’s $4.99 worth offer allows two movie rentals and also a downloading time of two hours each month without additional charge.