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Netflix Going After Original TV Series

Hopes to be the first to air new David Fincher/Kevin Spacey show

(Newser) - Is Netflix the next HBO? The company’s in talks to be the first to distribute a new original series directed by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey, sources tell the Wall Street Journal . Netflix is reportedly prepared to pay more than $100 million for 26 episodes of the series,...

Amazon Unveils Movie Streaming Service

Amazon Prime subscribers get Netflix-esque service

(Newser) - Amazon threw down the gauntlet against Netflix today, offering its own streaming movie service. From now on, subscribers to Amazon Prime—which offers customers free two-day shipping for $79 a year—will also get access to more than 5,000 movies and TV shows, CNET reports. You can see the...

Verizon Challenges New Network Neutrality Rules

Company thinks FCC overstepped its authority

(Newser) - Verizon has filed a court challenge to new federal regulations that prohibit broadband providers from interfering with Internet traffic flowing over their networks. In a filing in federal appeals court in the District of Columbia, Verizon argues that the FCC overstepped its authority in adopting the "network neutrality" rules...

Movie Rental Kiosks Beat Out Stores Last Year

But subscription services still reign

(Newser) - Movie rental kiosks' market share surpassed that of retail stores in 2010, a study finds: Kiosks such as Redbox hosted 31% of third-quarter rentals, while 27% were from actual stores. Subscription services had the biggest market share, with 41%. Kiosks' market share grew 10 percentage points year-over-year, while stores dropped...

Paul Allen Re-Sues Apple, Google, Facebook

Microsoft co-founder refiles suit after judge's dismissal

(Newser) - Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has re-filed his mammoth patent lawsuit targeting a host of major web companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, Netflix, eBay, Aol, and Yahoo. Allen’s original lawsuit, filed in August, was dismissed because it was too vague, failing to name specific products or services. The refiling, which...

Netflix Offers Streaming-Only Plan

Users already watch more content online than on DVD

(Newser) - Netflix has rolled out a subscription plan in which users can pay only for streaming video content, Mashable . The plan costs $7.99 a month—coincidentally, the same price as Hulu Plus. The rollout is significant because Netflix has declined to offer a DVD-only plan (the existing plans offers both...

Netflix Streamers Are Hogging Bandwidth
 Netflix Streamers 
 Are Hogging Bandwidth 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Nov 7, 2010 3:02 PM CST

Netflix Streamers Are Hogging Bandwidth

They eat up 20% in peak hours

(Newser) - People streaming movies from Netflix are eating up a ton of bandwidth, and it's only going to get worse, writes Farhad Manjoo in Slate . He notes the takeaway stat from from a new report : Netflix watching accounts for 20% of web traffic in North American homes during peak usage hours....

Content From Amazon, NBC to Power Google TV

Firm unveil new deals to populate its TV service

(Newser) - Google now has a series of deals to provide content for its new Google TV service, the Wall Street Journal reports, including with NBC Universal and Amazon. The latter will lend its Amazon Video on Demand library to Google TV users, giving them paid access to some 75,000 movies...

All Those Canadian Netflix Fans? Actors, Actually

Company 'embarrassed' by PR gaffe

(Newser) - Reporters at an event celebrating Netflix ’s arrival in Canada were surprised to discover that all the supposed “subscribers” milling about and talking about how awesome Netflix is were actually hired actors. Whoops! A spokesperson later said the company was “embarrassed” and never meant to trick reporters,...

Apple, Amazon Joining Battle for Your TV

Apple to announce revamped version of Apple TV with Netflix

(Newser) - Amazon and Apple are both planning major pushes into the online TV business, insiders say. Apple will announce today a new set-top box that will deliver TV to consumers and include movies from Netflix, reports Bloomberg . Apple will offer 99-cent rentals of TV shows through its revamped, $99 version of...

Microsoft Co-Founder Sues Tech Industry

Paul Allen targets Apple, Google, Yahoo

(Newser) - Paul Allen’s licensing company is suing a who’s who of the biggest forces in tech—including Apple, Google, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Yahoo, and Aol—over a handful of patents filed by a now-defunct startup he funded during the Internet bubble. The four patents in question seem to encompass...

Netflix Ramps Up Online Movies

It's going after HBO, Showtime for new titles

(Newser) - Netflix will make more new movies available for instant viewing online at it slowly goes after TV pay channels such as HBO and Showtime. Netflix signed a deal with Relativity Media, a small film production company to get exclusive access to its movies after the theater runs. Upcoming films in...

One Man's Plan to Save Blockbuster

It now has movies 28 days earlier—but must change pricing

(Newser) - A Blockbuster shareholder and former DVD kiosk owner—who tried to warn the company of the impending movie rental revolution back in 2005—says Blockbuster can be saved. Yes, it’s $1 billion in debt and looks doomed, but because Netflix and Redbox recently signed a deal delaying their access...

Most Promising iPad Apps
 Most Promising iPad Apps 
tech review
Apr 2, 2010 12:44 PM CDT

Most Promising iPad Apps

From Netflix to Scrabble, Gizmodo runs down the hot list

(Newser) - You don't have your iPad yet, but the App Store is already open and promising wonders—pricey wonders. Gizmodo takes a look at the applications you won't want to go without:
  • Netflix: The streaming video player is free, but you need to shell out a monthly fee.
  • Marvel: "The
...

3 Things That Killed Blockbuster
 3 Things That  
 Killed Blockbuster 
ANALYSIS
Mar 17, 2010 7:17 PM CDT

3 Things That Killed Blockbuster

Netflix takes leading role in company's imminent bankruptcy

(Newser) - With Blockbuster, once the dominant US video-rental chain, on the verge of bankruptcy, Daniel Indiviglio takes a look at three crucial factors in the demise of an outfit whose “fate was mostly sealed by its failure to embrace technology quickly enough.”
  • Netflix: “Its business model merged technology,
...

HBO Launches Streaming Service to Fight Netflix

HBO Go will be offered only to subscribers

(Newser) - HBO will launch a video-streaming service tomorrow in an attempt to keep customers who are increasingly choosing services like Netflix over premium cable. HBO Go will be available only to HBO and Cinemax subscribers, at no charge. "Expect to see more and more of these types of services from...

Wii Finally Gets Netflix
 Wii Finally Gets Netflix 
Jan 13, 2010 1:55 PM CST

Wii Finally Gets Netflix

Nintendo console catches up to the big boys

(Newser) - This Spring the Nintendo Wii will finally be able to stream Netflix movies like the Xbox 360 and the PS3, the companies announced today. Wii users, like their PS3 brethren, will have to pop in a special disc, which they can get free from Netflix (Xbox users don’t need...

Some Like it Haute— and Cheap

'Netflix rental scheme' delivers high-fashion frocks

(Newser) - Budget-minded entrepreneurs are utilizing the strategy of Netflix in high fashion. Now working girls can afford some of the priciest haute couture frocks by renting them on the Internet. The new mail-order service, Rent the Runway , allows shop-aholics to rent top designer fashions for a tenth of their retail cost....

Save Money: Join Cult of the Somewhat Delayed

Live two years in the past and watch your savings grow

(Newser) - Times are tough, and there's only one sure way to save money in the modern world: Live 2 years in the past. So says Lore Sjoberg, who's starting his very own Cult of the Somewhat Delayed. "If you subsist entirely on 2-year-old entertainment, and the corresponding 2-year-old technology used...

Netflix Comes to PlayStation 3
 Netflix Comes to PlayStation 3 
Oct 26, 2009 9:49 AM CDT

Netflix Comes to PlayStation 3

Sony console can finally stream like Xbox

(Newser) - At long last, PlayStation 3 owners will be able to stream Netflix movies to their TVs, the companies announced today. Xbox users have been able to do the same thing for a year, but an exclusive deal with Microsoft kept the service off the PS3 until now. But PS3 users...

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