Here at ITK we’re huge fans of Netflix.  Partly because it’s a great deal for basically anyone who likes to rent a movie or two a month, but even more so because of the growth its bringing to video streaming.  We’ve always thought that streaming content was the future, and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has confirmed for us now that he agrees.  When announcing their third quarter financial results, Hastings stated that Netflix is “now primarily a streaming company that also offers DVD-by-mail” and that while Canada already has a less expensive, streaming-only subscription available, the US could see the same offering sometime this quarter. Read on for pricing details and more!

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Just a heads up for those of you planning your blog reading for the next few weeks…Looks like our friends over at Looxcie are hooking us up with a brand spankin’ new Looxcie unit to review for you guys.  This means not only will we get to give you guys our impressions of a product which has just hit the shelves, but we’ll also be able to give you guys a great gallery of shots, as well as, of course, video of the Looxcie in action.  We’ll be sure to provide video and our impressions of it in use, as well as the video we took with it, so you can really get a feel for how it performs.

For those of you who may not have heard of Looxcie, it’s basically billed as a super awesome life caster.  Life casting means showing people, on video, life from your perspective.  Whether your doing extreme sports, reviewing a unit that you’re holding in front of you, or having a conversation; if you record it and post it from your perspective, that’s basically the essence of life casting.  Looxcie aims to make these types of activities super easy, and most importantly, far more natural than it used to be.  (I honestly just can’t wait to do video reviews with the thing, as they dealing with cameras while playing with a new gadget can get super annoying.  And don’t worry, Steve’s new Droid 2 will definitely be getting the Looxcie treatment ASAP!)

For more info, check out Looxcie’s site here, and be sure to check back in a couple of weeks for the full review!  What would you use the Looxsie for?  Think its something you’d be interested in getting?  What about for its list price of $199?  Let us hear it in the comments!

As promised, we’ve got a short video walkthrough of Google Instant Search for you.  As one of our YouTube commenters pointed out, don’t forget that if you don’t like Instant, you can always turn it off in Google Settings.

The minute I heard about Hulu Plus, I signed up for an invite, super stoked at the potential of the idea.  To begin with, I’m not a cable subscriber.  I get over-the-air channels with an antenna, and I use the heck out of my Netflix subscription, as well as Amazon streaming and, for super new releases, my Xbox 360‘s built in Zune rentals.  On top of that though, the idea of having all my favorite shows from Hulu streaming to not only my Mac and PC, but also to my Xbox 360 and iPad excited the heck out of me.  What I pictured was Hulu, but on all my devices, with a cost of around 10 bucks a month, and no ads.  What we got with Hulu Plus though, varies from that dream of mine pretty greatly.  Continue reading for how and why.

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