Reed Hastings Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Internet TV is replacing linear TV.

Television has always been something you watch; now, increasingly, it is also something you do.

I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.

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.'

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?

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

I think Netflix is responsible for what will become how we view television.

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

This is the evolution of television. It just keeps evolving from three networks, four cable networks, satellite. Now there's Internet channels and the phone.

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

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

In the 2015 time frame, you'll probably see more mainstream adoption of set-top box technology using UltraHD. We'll start shipping it in 2014, but the volume will take off in probably 2015.

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

Think of Internet on the TV like the Web browser. The amount of time you spend on the PC in the browser is just going to grow continuously.

WorldGate offers interactive set-top-box applications. Its customers want to interact with the Web as an adjunct to other things they can do, and WorldGate allows that through the layout engine in Mozilla, called Gecko.

Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!

I want to make smart television.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

I honestly think that in five years time, television will be watched on computer screens anyway and you'll be doing multiple things. You'll be 'IMing' while you're watching a show and checking the news.

All TV is now digital. It's a platform ripe for innovation; we just haven't seen any beyond picture quality changes. That's a secular problem.

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