Netflix to offer the original Star Trek series for streaming

By George Wong on 02/23/2011, filed in Home > General

Netflix to offer the original Star Trek series for streaming Netflix has just finalized a 2-year non-exclusive deal with CBS television to bring a large selection of CBS shows over to Netflix users. This means that Trekkies who are subscribed to Netflix can satisfy their cravings for the original Star Trek series any time they want, with Netflix’s on-demand video streaming service. In addition to Star Trek, users will be able to watch hit series like Frasier, Cheers and The Andy Griffith Show. Looks like Netflix are stepping up their game after Amazon’s recent move that gave free video streaming services to their Prime Members yesterday. Look out for more similar deals happening for both companies in the coming months.

Netflix: Netflix Inc is an Internet company that distributes video on-demand. As of 2012, the company operated in the USA, but also in South America, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. Netflix was founded in 1997 in California and is still based in Los Gatos in the Silicon Valley. Of course, Netflix is also provides DVD rentals via regular mail, and that is actually how the company took off before becoming the entity that is said to account for 29% of USA download Internet traffic as of March 2011. Netflix is one of the largest customer of Amazon's AWS infrastructure business.

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