Netflix costs 3 GB/Hr for HD[1]. Considering a movie is about 2 hrs, thats 6 GB/Movie. Say they have a "limited" library of 300 movies thats 1800 GB. Consider

Netflix costs 3 GB/Hr for HD[1]. Considering a movie is about 2 hrs, thats 6 GB/Movie. Say they have a "limited" library of 300 movies thats 1800 GB. Considering a short tv show is about 20 mins, thats 1GB/ Episode. Say they have the latest 1000 episodes of all the latest shows, thats 1000 GB. Considering a long tb show is about 40 mins, thats 2Gb/Episode. Say they have the latest 1000 episodes of all the latest shows thats 2000 GB. This brings the total to 4800 GB, rounded up to about 5 TB. If they have complete copy of everything that's 10TB. 4 TB costs about $200 [2]. If you got 3, you spend $800. Even if you triple capacity, you're only spending $1800. Obviously there are other costs involved but I think it's definitely plausible and affordable. Probably also much cheaper to negotiate with Netflix on a per seat basis rather than content distributors separately. Only disadvantage is that you wont get "currently in theaters" movies which a lot of international airlines have. [1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87 [2] http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007603%20600003489%20600217643&IsNodeId=1&name=4TB http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=...