To everyone worried that Netflix is spending too much money on bandwidth for Netflix Instant, calm down: Turns out that they spend 20 times more on postage for their DVDs.
It costs the company $1 to mail each DVD, compared with 5 cents per streamed movie (on average), but that price difference is one of the few reasons that studios …
Bored of Netflix constantly asking if you want to add things to your DVD queue instead of just knowing that, as a citizen of the 21st Century, you want to stream it instantly? Well, bore no more: Netflix is removing the “Add to DVD Queue” option from streaming devices.
According to director of product management Jamie Odell, the …
Ask anyone who covered last year’s Consumer Electronics Show what its overarching theme was and most will tell you that 3D TV stole the spotlight.
A year later, and consumers have been slow to adopt 3D TV. There was plenty of 3D technology on display at this year’s show, ranging from TVs to computers to handheld devices, but most
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The television industry may have finally worked out a way to get around concerns about viewers “cord-cutting” and dropping their cable boxes in favor of Video on Demand: Stop releasing their show to VoD companies.
Turner Broadcasting CEO Phil Kent, talking at the Citigroup Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference …
Wal-Mart may be denying that its not-so-secret 2005 pact with Netflix was a way to illegally divide up the DVD market, but someone should tell the retailer that agreeing to pay anywhere between $29 million and $40 million to make the accusations go away isn’t the best way to convince people of innocence.
Wal-Mart will offer either …
Gone are the days when being a Netflix subscriber meant leaving your house to check the mail for the latest DVD. Late last year Netflix decided they would start offering a streaming-only plan with a lower monthly rate. Now, the company plans to introduce a one-click Netflix remote button, making it even easier for subscribers to search …
The argument between Netflix partner Level 3 and Comcast over carriage fees looks set to get a lot uglier with the news that Level 3 has asked the FCC to step in and put conditions on Comcast’s merger with NBC Universal. The company is asking the FCC to enforce on Comcast a five year period where interconnection agreements would be made …
Google is in the midst of pushing out the first major software update for its Google TV service.
Along with some bug fixes, Google TV users now have access to an updated Netflix app that allows direct streaming of any available movie or show, along with the ability to add disc-based movies directly to your queue if you subscribe to …
What’s the point of Hulu? That’s the question being asked by some in the wake of the news that Disney – one of the three co-owners in the online VoD service – has licensed hit shows like Lost, Ugly Betty and Grey’s Anatomy to competitor Netflix Instant (which itself came two months after NBC Universal, another Hulu parent, licensed 35 …
Is Amazon planning on taking on Netflix? The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that the online giant is developing its own version of Netflix’s streaming video-on-demand service, with a plan to augment the existing Amazon Prime program by adding the ability for subscribers to stream movie and television.
If true, Amazon would …
Though some are concerned that Netflix, online streaming, Google TV and other similar services might become the death knell for cable television, a new study conducted by ESPN says that not that many people are getting rid of their paid channels. A survey conducted from the same pool of people who Nielsen uses for their television show …
The addition of Netflix’s streaming only plan has had many people excited. With a good portion of their movie and TV catalogue online, paying $7.99 for immediate unlimited legal, crystal clear video is barely nothing compared to cable plans and buying a television. The anticipated increase of Netflix online subscribers has some people …