Reed Hastings Quotes

Netflix and Hulu are just extensions of television that live on the Web.

So many people are are using the Internet now to watch movies and TV shows online.

I remember one of my writers on 'Weeds' got a new apartment and didn't get cable or a dish. He just hooked his computer up to the TV. I was like, 'This is it. This is how it's happening.'

A lot of credit goes to Google TV for helping that process get started and helping to build something like Chromecast.

People think about the world of TV and the world of online video as being different ways to distribute video. But what happens when every TV is connected to wi-fi with a browser?

We firmly believe the future of television is online, and Hulu has recognized the value of quality long-form series.

I don't think films and television can be killed by the web. They shall always remain but as time passes we shall see that they give us a very different kind of entertainment.

Television is dead. And television will not be reborn. It will not come back.

Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.

When we launched Hulu, everybody was saying, 'Oh, this is going to be a substitute for pay TV in the living room.'

What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future.

The future of the television industry is changing at an unstoppable rate, and it is exciting to share my experience and thoughts on how this will change the value of content in the digital space.

For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.

I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.

Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.

We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand.

We all know that technology has advanced to the point of watching TV online.

Video is moving online in a big way. It's proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as a pure Internet company such as Joost.

Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.

My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except, 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.' So it's harder to get a show on the air, but at the same time, there are a lot of terrific shows.

Before the Netflixs and the Amazons and the Hulus, there was nothing. TV came to a standstill. Movie actors were taking TV parts, and it was just nuts.

My children do not know what it's like to flip around channels. They either go to Netflix, Apple TV, or they pull up YouTube, and they can watch their shows.

The future of TV is not on TV. It's on the smaller screens we are all using in front of the television set.