In addition to exploring a Netflix enabled set-top box with LG, Netflix is also exploring a partnership with Microsoft and their X-box to deliver streamed movies to user’s TVs.

Steve Swasey, a company spokesperson, said Netflix was interested in getting its movies to consumers’ TVs “in as many ways as possible.” And this certainly seems to be a much smarter way that getting users to buy an additional box to sit….where, exactly? With LCD and Plasma screens taking up less and less space in the livingroom, the once ubiquitous, ominous entertainment center is going the way of the dodo. Where are we to keep our cable boxes, tivo boxes, x-boxes, and sling boxes among all the other old-school media boxes like CD and DVD players, receivers, and - gasp - VCR?

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