TED Talks joins Netflix's stable of streaming content

This is a great offering for people like my dad: he’s a smart guy who would love TED talks, and he uses Netflix daily. But he would never go out of his way to discover content such as this on his own, in part because it’s not centralised, but mostly because he really dislikes using computers. Getting this kind of stuff on Netflix is a huge boost to discoverability, and I look forward to seeing what else they will offer next—online learning, perhaps?

Wonder what makes Netflix more desirable with this partnership. TED content is free AFAIK. Some benefits I can think of:<p>- Making TED content more accessible across devices/platforms? (Netflix has better device reach)<p>- Applying Netflix's categorization and recommendation algorithm to TED's vast content.<p>- As the article said, grouping related videos for longer viewing, but I am not sure how good it would be.<p>I think this is just a value add to existing customer, but I want them to figure out a way to add more movies.

Really, I'm not this positive in my outlook. But I find it ironic -- if perhaps a bit naive -- to think that Hollywood's rampant, myopic self-interest might end up "forcing" the public into the arms of better quality content.<p>All those "History" and "How Things Work" and the like shows on cable have proven quite popular. (And "Mythbusters", with its enhanced entertainment factor.) Maybe not just Netflix, but aggregate culture, is onto something, here.

This is great. I've seen nearly all of them already but it should widen it up to a lot of people. It's really interesting to see what was exclusively web based content moving onto Netflix. Also netflix seems like the one of the least evil content delivery companies out there right now and I'm glad to see TED endorse them.

Word on if this is American netflix only? This interests me a lot but I'm a foreign subscriber

<i>SQUEE</i> I've been watching the TED Talks that are available via YouTube on my Xbox 360 lately. I could watch them all day long :)

It is funny that Netflix doesn't seem to be serving up relevant content to me. Discovery is just not that good yet. Everytime I visit the site, I have to go digging. Maybe (and I'm hoping) its just this selection problem. I hope they add more (good) titles to streaming, and fix this discovery issue.<p>I wonder how much licensing fees factor into them hiding good content vs. playing it up to show that they are still relevant.

I don't get it...can't pretty much any device capable of running Netflix also run Youtube?

I really, really want Netflix in Germany. What politician do I have to bribe?

Been watching them for months on Roku... No subscription fee required.

The whole talks, or the 10-minute dinguses they have on ted.com?