As Netflix’s price rise continues to cause grumbling amongst subscribers, is Amazon about to try and become the new hub for Video on Demand content? The online giant today announced a new deal with CBS Corp. that makes 2,000 episodes of 18 different series – including Star Trek, Cheers and The Tudors – freely available to Amazon Prime …
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BBC’s ‘Doctor Who’ Becomes First Facebook TV Rental
With Netflix’s subscription cost increases apparently pricing it outside of some people’s budget, the BBC must be hoping that more audiences plan to move their online viewing to Facebook.
Following Warner Bros.’ trials with renting movies through the social network, BBC Worldwide today begins offering episodes of Doctor Who for 48 …
Mad About Netflix Prices? Here Are Some Alternative Services
Mad at Netflix over the recently-announced price hike? You’re not alone. To recap, here’s what’s happening:
On September 1, Netflix will do away with its combination DVD-by-mail and instant streaming offering, currently available for as low as $10 per month which includes one DVD out at a time and unlimited streaming.
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ABC’s Canceled Soaps Move Online: Welcome to the Future of Web TV?
I know, I know: You’re still upset about ABC canceling All My Children and One Life To Live in favor of cheaper daytime talk shows. But here’s the thing: The shows aren’t really going away – they’re just going online.
News is breaking that both shows will continue as web series, with Disney licensing the shows to online production …
Netflix Expanding into Latin America and the Caribbean
Netflix has gotten too big for North America.
The online movie service will launch a modified streaming service available in three languages – English, Spanish and Portuguese – in 43 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean later this year, according to GigaOM.
The company will soon be available to subscribers in …
Why Did Sony Pull Movies from Netflix Instant?
Hope you weren’t hoping to watch any recent Sony movies on Netflix Instant anytime soon. The studio has pulled its movies from Starz’ VoD service, which supplies Netflix Instant with recent releases, as the result of being too popular for everyone’s own good.
Netflix notified subscribers of the removal of Sony’s StarzPlay movies on …
Study: 32% of Netflix Customers Plan to Cut Their Cable Costs
Apparently, cord-cutting may be real after all, according to a new study released by The Diffusion Group.
Despite countless real-world examples showing that television doesn’t seem to be negatively affected by online VoD services, Diffusion’s new study apparently finds 32% of Netflix users plan to cut down on – or cut out entirely – …
Warner Announces China’s First Video on Demand Service, but Is It Legal?
Warner Bros. has signed what could be a historic deal to make its movies available to homes throughout China on Video on Demand… as long as it turns out to actually be legit.
Warner Bros. Entertainment has announced a partnership with YOU On Demand Media to provide China’s “first national Pay-Per-View and Video On Demand platform,” …
Are Theaters the Real Winners in the VoD/DVD War?
The unlikely winner in the battle between DVDs and Video On Demand? According to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, the answer is movie theaters – and it’s all because they remain the most reliable source of income for movie studios.
Talking at this weekend’s “Produced By Conference,” an annual conference put on by the Producer’s Guild of …
Blip.tv Launches Hulu-Like Offering for Web-Only Series
Want to watch more web series but don’t know where to find the good ones? Join the club… but help is here in the form of a site described as a cross between Hulu and iTunes, giving original web content the promotion it deserves.
Blip.tv, which has previously worked behind the scenes to help promote original web creators distribute …
Miramax Inks Deal with Netflix Streaming: Who’s Up for a Tarantino Marathon?
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 …
Does ‘Place Shifting’ Make Movie Watching Public or Private?
When is streaming movies online not streaming movies online? That’s not the set-up for some existential movie piracy joke, but the question at the heart of a lawsuit between the Motion Picture Association of America and a company called Zediva.
Zediva offers a video-on-demand service that it believes avoids the problems that have …