I am wondering when the other movie rental companies will wake up and get on the ball.  At this time, it looks like a Netflix world. 

LG and Netflix announced they are working together to bring new HDTVs from LG which you simply hookup to your Internet and you have streaming HD movies.  It is all built in, no boxes to handle the streaming!

With all the rush that is going on with set top boxes for VOD (video-on-demand), I would if there will be a standard coming out any time soon that will allow these devices to work with all VOD providers that would support the standard.  Sure would be a pain to buy an HDTV which supports Netflix and then decide later you want Blockbuster’s services.  I imagine, in time…

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/05/technology/netflix_lg_electronics/?postversion=2009010512