• Wired, Friday, January 6, 2012 3:55 PM

Why should it matter that, as reported today, Netflix has to pay full (no longer discounted) price for the HBO DVDs it ships to customers?

Because HBO and Netflix are now competitors, and HBO and Time Warner want to "push Netflix to its breaking point, where it can no longer bid on first-rate content and price itself competetively for customers’ last $10. Or relegate Netflix to the subordinate role of a digital syndication channel aggregating the old, the weird, and the unprofitable," writes Tim Carmody

"In another assault on Netflix's library, Warner Bros. [also owned by Time Warner] announced it will double the viewing window for new releases, meaning viewers will now have to wait 56 days for A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas and other Warner releases to show up at Netflix," writes Rebecca Greenfield on The Atlantic Wire.

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