November 14th, 2011
An excerpt from an article by
Brooks Barnes for The New York Times
Hollywood has had enough of the sharp consumer shift toward renting movies through Netflix. Desperate to raise home entertainment profits, studios want people to start buying movies outright again, either digitally or on little silver discs.
A Flixster iPhone app. Flixster is the home of the new movie storage service UltraViolet.
But what’s the best way to force that pendulum to swing?
Every studio is grappling with that question, but one of the more aggressive and risky bets is being made ...
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October 28th, 2011
By Veena Bissram for
Mashable.com
On Monday, Netflix reported losing more than 800,000 subscribers since the company announced a 60% price increase, which went into effect in September. If you’re one of these Netflix customers who couldn’t seem to rationalize the hike, you’re probably exploring other options.
A few years ago, our only option was to drive to the nearest Blockbuster or Hollywood Video, only to be subjected to ironclad late fees and out-of-stock titles. Now, with a multitude of popular online streaming services, our favorite movies and TV shows are just one click away. From Amazon ...
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October 5th, 2011
From CBC News
Canada's telecommunications regulator has rebuffed calls from broadcasters to regulate online video services such as Netflix.
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications released a report Wednesday detailing the results of fact-finding launched in May about mobile and internet media services, also known as "over-the-top" (OTT) services.
"Stakeholders calling for the imposition of regulatory obligations on OTT providers demonstrated that consumer adoption of OTT services is real and growing," the CRTC said.
The report noted that Netflix, which streams movies and TV episodes over the internet to TVs and other devices for a ...
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September 1st, 2011
By Christophor Rick for ReelSEO.com
Yahoo! was in online video, then they were out, then they were in and then out…and now, starting in about a month’s time, they’re all in again? It would seem so. Aside from being named in the Hulu bidding of late, they are also apparently shopping around a whole set of original online video content (
says Variety). So it seems that the zig-zaggy path of Yahoo! and online video is once again on a positive vector.
Wow, I just totally had some deja vu, like ...
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August 29th, 2011
By Christina Warren for Mashable
Apple has axed its TV rental program within iTunes.
The company introduced the ability to rent certain episodes of television programs for $0.99 each last September, in conjunction with the rejiggered Apple TV.
AllThingsD quotes an Apple spokesman as saying, “iTunes customers have shown they overwhelmingly prefer buying TV shows.”
Earlier this month, Apple added TV shows to its iCloud for iTunes offering. This gives users the ability to re-download purchased TV content on their iOS devices, Mac and PC computers and to stream via the Apple TV. This ends up negating the need for rentals in the ...
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