Netflix is targeting a new outlet for its streaming video
service: cable TV boxes.  Netflix is in talks with cable TV
companies, including Comcast and Suddenlink Communications, to
get its streaming app on their set-top boxes, according to a
person familiar with the situation.  If the deals happen, that
would represent a major thawing in the historically frosty
relationship between Netflix and the traditional TV industry.
Netflix lets subscribers watch movies and TV programs through
their existing Internet connections, or through smartphones and
other wireless devices. The service's increasing popularity has
raised concern that consumers may switch off cable or satellite
TV services.  However, Netflix has started producing its own
content, such as House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, and
is increasingly thought of more like an HBO for the Internet,
rather than a provider of all programming. That shift makes
Netflix less of a threat to traditional cable TV companies.
Netflix has already cut similar de