The history
of Netflix (www.netflix.com) is certainly curious and fascinating at the same
time. Born in 1997 in Californian. One of its founders, Reed Hastings, returned
late the film Apollo 13 to the video store, and you will be charged a fine
amounting to $41 million.
Then, he
realized that what bothered moviegoers was having to return the movie in 24
hours and having to then go to the video store to do so. For this reason,
decided to start a business in which the client could ask or return the DVD
whenever they wanted, directly by mail.
In 2005 he
and a catalog of 30,000 titles and sent a million DVD per day. Thus, in 2007
there were mailed 1,000 million DVD. Netflix and raged in the United States,
but its unique business system could not be exported to other countries for
their limited postal services, so began offering streaming movies over the
Internet. It was introduced in South America and in a dozen European countries.
Thus, it is distributed in almost all SmartTV TVs in the Wii-U, PS3 and Xbox
360 consoles, and online services such as Amazon, Google Play and App Store.
Netflix has 50 million subscribers, over 100,000 movies and TV streaming, 2,000
employees. and revenues of more than 4,000 million dollars a year.
Netflix had
grown into such a large empire which, in 2011, decided to also create their own
series.
The
significance of this announcement is not the creation of original content. but
do it with the same means that televisions. "House of Cards", his
most successful series, costing $ 50 million per season. It is directed by
David Fincher, director of The Social Network ", starring Kevin Spacey and
Robin Wright.
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