I came across a thought-provoking Reuters story on the Web at Designtechnica News, Critical Minds Weblog, SignOnSanDiego.com, and elsewhere about Netflix's plans to expand into downloading movies via the Internet in 2005.

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Netflix is thinking of using broadband Internet to download these movies to a television or a TiVo set-top box.

Currently, online movie download services include Movielink and CinemaNow.

What do you think? Would you prefer to watch movies downloaded via the Internet, wait for DVDs to arrive by mail, or get them at a brick-and-mortar store? Share your thoughts in the About Home Video/DVD Forum.