Netflix Instant isn’t offering anything that NBC hasn’t been offering for years, according to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts – but that isn’t the reason why Comcast won’t be going to go down a similar route, as it turns out.
Roberts seemed impressively calm about online video streaming in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, …
Ah, streaming media. Your promise is so elusive. The technology is here and robust enough to shoulder the burden, but the content companies have insisted that you be viewable first and foremost on big boy computers, with set-top boxes and mobile devices granted access on a case by case basis.
If this sounds like a conversation you’ve …
If you do a lot of shopping on Amazon.com, you’ve no doubt come across the site’s $79 per year “Prime” membership option.
The basic idea is that for $79, you get free two-day shipping on just about everything sold directly by Amazon—not its third-party sellers, mind you—or $4-per-item overnight shipping.
The company has now …
Redbox isn’t just content with fighting with Netflix over DVD rentals – now it wants to have it out with digital distribution, as well. The company announced yesterday that it will launch a monthly subscription-based service that will allow users to watch Video-on-Demand movies on multiple devices as well as granting them disc access …
In a major play to unseat the powerhouse Netflix from the legal streaming movie market, Hulu has gained the rights to stream the Criterion Collection films.
Criterion Collection announced on Tuesday that they will cease to be a partner with Netflix’s instant streaming feature, instead starting a partnership with their competitor Hulu …
It’s taken a few months longer than expected – not to mention a couple of missed deadlines – but Netflix has finally made it to Boxee. Yesterday, the New York-based start-up added its much-anticipated, long-delayed Netflix app to the Boxee Box, with CEO Avner Ronen making the official announcement on the company blog:
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If you’ve noticed recently that YouTube videos seem to be uploading faster, and without as much buffer-stutter, then perhaps you should be thanking the Hydra. That’s the name of an internal project within YouTube to speed up video loading times, and in the process, lower both user frustration and operating costs. The key? Google …
After seven months of retooling following reporting glitches, Nielsen has released online video metrics that show just how big Netflix has become online, with the site not only becoming the only paid product to appear on the top 10 of both total video streams and unique viewers, but also winning users in terms of time spent on the …
This seems a little too good to be true but rumor has it that Amazon may be getting into the unlimited video streaming game a la Netflix.
That in and of itself isn’t all that unbelievable, but there seems to be some indication that the unlimited streaming deal may be tied into Amazon’s expedited shipping program, called Amazon Prime …
After a failed attempt at social networking in September, Netflix announced yesterday in a quarterly earnings report that it will once again try going social.
The report stated that the company is working on an “extensive Facebook integration.” While Netflix won’t say exactly what that means, we’re guessing it will allow users to do …
For Netflix instant streaming customers, good news: Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos said that the company will make a big push to try and buy HBO’s pay TV output deal with Warner Bros. before it expires in 2014. It’s not that they’re against the premium cable channel: He added that the company also has plans to try and woo …
Amazon is fighting back against the growing dominance of Netflix by purchasing British movie rental company Lovefilm. Amazon has owned a significant stake in the company since 2008, when Lovefilm bought Amazon’s DVD service, but today’s news brings the company entirely under Amazon control.
Lovefilm, which offers DVD rental through …