The best way to combat piracy isn’t legislatively or criminally, but by coming up with an alternative that makes it easy to consume the content at a fair price. That according to Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos, who says…
Posted April 30, 2013, 2:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Hulu recently announced they have doubled the number of paid subscribers over the course of the last year despite the fact that founding chief executive Jason Kilar stepped down last month. Reaching four million paid subscribers is a noteworthy milestone…
Posted April 26, 2013, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
YouTube is planning their first ever Comedy Week set to kick off on May 19. The event will run through May 25 and feature performances from Michael Cera, Rainn Wilson, Sarah Silverman, Seth Rogen and Vince Vaughn as well as…
Posted April 25, 2013, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Netflix recently outlined their vision for the future which, surprising to nobody, will see online streams completely replace traditional means of watching television. The company makes some compelling arguments in the 11-page document titled “Netflix Long Term View”, highlighting a…
Posted April 24, 2013, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
Amazon has a team of engineers working on a "television set-top box", anonymous sources in contact with Bloomberg claim. Of course, a TV-based device would be a seemingly natural extension to Amazon Instant Video as it continues to produce its…
Posted April 23, 2013, 7:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Netflix recently announced some new family-oriented changes to the streaming service. In a quarterly letter to shareholders, CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells noted the company intended to launch a new family plan that would allow up to four…
Posted April 17, 2013, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Industry News
Netflix has been working toward transitioning away from Silverlight to HTML5, it recently indicated on its technology blog. With Silverlight's biggest customer fleeing the web-based video plug-in scene, the imminent demise of browser plug-ins like Adobe Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight…
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings noted on Facebook that his company served up some four billion hours of streaming video in 2013 -- and we're not even done with April. He also plugged an upcoming Netflix original series named Hemlock Grove,…
Posted April 3, 2013, 2:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Software
Following a few short months in private beta and over a year in development, Vdio, the video streaming counterpart of music service Rdio is making its first public appearance. Initially, only Rdio Unlimited subscribers in the U.K. and the U.S.…
Posted March 14, 2013, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Netflix is giving away $100,000 in prizes as part of a just-launched competition designed to make cloud computing better for everyone. The company is asking developers around the world to help improve the features, usability, reliability, quality and security of…
Posted March 12, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
There’s no doubt that cord cutting is on the rise as services like Netflix and Hulu continue to cut into the revenue stream once dominated by cable and satellite television providers. The majority of Americans, a full 95 percent according…
Posted March 11, 2013, 6:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Netflix recently announced plans to shutter their public API program. The streaming media company’s director of engineering Daniel Jacobson said in a blog post that the changes are designed to allow them to focus their API efforts on supporting products…
Posted March 4, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
News Corp. and Walt Disney Co. are reportedly in discussion with one another that could ultimately lead to one company buying out the other’s interest in video streaming service Hulu. At present, each entity owns about a third of Hulu…
Posted February 22, 2013, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
Nielsen will soon expand its TV ratings system to include online viewers, it told clients yesterday. Armed with its broadened definition of what constitutes a "TV household", Nielsen hopes to more accurately reflect modern day media consumption and advancements in technology…
Posted February 6, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Microsoft has reached an agreement with Redbox to become the exclusive console launch partner for Redbox Instant, the upcoming Netflix competitor. Verizon will be in charge of the video on-demand streaming service while Redbox will provide members with a monthly…
Posted January 30, 2013, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Netflix is hoping that 2013 will be a breakout year for the company with regards to how people think about the service. The company that was once known for offering DVDs by mail before providing streaming video is now getting…
Airplay is arguably one of the single coolest new features of Apple’s iDevices and its open alternative Miracast could be a real boon to the Android ecosystem once more devices start supporting it. But Netflix and YouTube believe they can…
Posted January 18, 2013, 8:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web
Time Warner Cable has accused Netflix of discriminating against users who access the video streaming service through a TWC Internet connection. Last week, Netflix started providing streams in Super HD and 3D qualities, which delivers better-looking video at the expense…
Posted January 15, 2013, 5:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Netflix has signed new licensing deals with Turner Broadcasting and Warner Bros. Television Group that will provide the streaming video service with a wealth of new content for its paid subscribers. New programming is schedule to arrive on March 30…
Posted January 7, 2013, 1:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
Perhaps the most interesting product from HP at this year’s CES isn’t a notebook or an all-in-one PC, but this: the HP Pocket Playlist. This pint-sized gadget promises to record and store media from a number of different sources then…
Posted December 17, 2012, 7:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
The Nasdaq, a group of the top 100 non-financial companies that trade on the stock exchange, recently updated their index last week to include Facebook. But Facebook and other additions meant that some will have to be bumped from the…
Posted December 11, 2012, 4:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
Netflix has published a list of the top Internet service providers in the US based on streaming performance. This is the first time that Netflix has released data of this nature but according to Netflix vice president of content delivery…
Posted December 5, 2012, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
Netflix and Disney struck a deal yesterday which will allow Netflix subscribers to enjoy content from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Marvel Studios, Pixar Animation Studios and DisneyNature. Unfortunately, the bulk of the Netflix-Disney deal won't take effect until 2016 but…
Posted December 4, 2012, 5:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam informed investors during the UBS Global Media and Communications conference that the company’s service with Redbox, dubbed Redbox Instant, wouldn’t launch commercially until sometime during the first quarter of 2013.
Posted November 21, 2012, 2:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, The Web
It’s been over a year since we last heard about Vdio, an upcoming online video service founded by Janus Friis, the same guy who co-created KaZaA, Skype, Rdio and Joost. But according to a report by GigaOm, things are moving…
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