In Monday's post-earnings analyst and media conference call, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said that Netflix users can expect a "modest monthly premium" if they want to rent Blu-ray Discs. Formerly the rental of high-definition discs was bundled into their normal fee.

People have been reporting today on March 24, 2008 that the Netflix web site has been down already for more than five hours. Perhaps an outage or anything else has caused the Netfli site being down, but we know that the technicians are working hard to end the Netflix outage.