NETFLIX Inc said it has reached a deal with TiVo Inc to further deliver on its goal of offering Netflix's Web streaming service directly to televisions through many devices. The deal calls for Netflix to provide subscribers of its online DVD rental service and many of the 800,000 broadband-connected Tivo subscribers with the ability to stream movies and TV episodes from Netflix's “Watch Instantly” service to TVs free of charge. TiVo, maker of the popular digital video recorder, and Netflix said they were initiating a test of the new capability in several thousand U.S. households and expect it will be broadly available in early December. Netflix's “Watch Instantly” Web streaming service, with a library of more than 12,000 movies and TV episodes, is offered free to its more than 8 million subscribers.
