ISP slow down your connection? Dude, stop with the Mad Men and Quentin Tarintino. A report conducted by Sandvine, a networking company, found that Netflix is the single largest source of Internet traffic in North America. Wait – are there even cat videos on Netflix?
Netflix accounts for nearly 30 percent of all downstream traffic, up …
Miramax has signed a multi-year agreement granting Netflix streaming access to its library of movies, including Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, The English Patient and the Scream franchise. The agreement, the first of its kind for the studio, will allow Netflix access to “several hundred” movies beginning next month, although it’s believed the …
Unless you own one of the five phones that support Netflix’s new Android app, Thursday’s announcement was worthless.
But thanks to some clever folks on Reddit, Netflix’s petty device restrictions needn’t apply. With a rooted Android smartphone, you can trick Netflix into thinking your device is approved for streaming video. It’s not a …
People have been throwing the F-word around with reckless abandon concerning the sudden appearance of the ability to stream movies and TV shows with the official Netflix app for Android phones.
Not so fast, though. The streaming feature is only available for the following handsets: HTC Incredible, HTC Nexus One, HTC Evo 4G, HTC G2 and …
If you thought it was impossible for entertainment juggernaut Warner Bros. to have even more under its belt beyond the WB Network and – of course – the Harry Potter films, then a little announcement today might persuade you otherwise.
With ambitions to expand its digital rollout, the company has agreed to purchase popular …
Down, down, to obsolescence town–that might just be the broad-view takeaway from Los Angeles-based Digital Entertainment Group’s recent sales report (via Financial Times), which suggests new DVD sales in the U.S. plunged 20% over the past 12 months.
It wasn’t just customers fleeing a sinking ship: DEG notes the drop was in part due …
Sounds like DirecTV has a bit of Netflix envy.
In a recent web survey, revealed by Zatz Not Funny, DirecTV asks customers how they’d feel about “a streaming-only Netflix-like service for a flat fee per month, which would appear as a line item on your monthly bill.”
The service would offer thousands of movies and TV shows for …
For the first time in the Los Gatos-based company’s history, Netflix is reporting that their quarterly DVD shipments will be down from the same period the year prior. This is in spite of a massive quarterly jump in profits, in which the company is up 86%.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the record growth can be attributed to …
Chances are, you’re paying for both cable and Netflix but recent data suggests that more people are doing the latter than the former. Per the Hollywood Reporter, Netflix’s paid subscriber base should surpass 23 million, besting the 22.8 million of leading cable provider Comcast. Sirius XM’s also up there with 20 million subscribers loyal …
DishOnline, Dish Network’s subscriber-only streaming video service, may not have the success or scale of Netflix’s Watch Instantly, but it does have something that the VoD giant doesn’t: Exclusive HBO and Cinemax programming.
Dish’s online service will add 1,800 titles from the premium cable networks in a deal announced today giving …
Netflix may have ignored advice to start selling movies in the past – perhaps because of a rumored agreement with WalMart that prohibits such a move – but that doesn’t mean the company won’t push you in the direction of others who’ll sell you the goods.
The Hacking Netflix blog noticed that a small “Buy Now” link appears on Netflix’s …
Time to put your squabbles aside. Netflix posted online that they may start offering options where it would be possible for you to watch “Mad Men” while your better half gleeks out next to you in bed.
Currently, Netflix streaming-only accounts can only get one stream at any point in time. In the future, that may change with some …
