Netflix’s Hastings: ‘We’re Done Promoting Our DVD Service’
It won’t happen as fast as you can say Qwikster, but Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) plans to slowly edge its way out of the DVD rental business. Read more at paidContent »
Why UltraViolet Produced More Questions Than Answers At CES
The UltraViolet initiative left the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week with an important new retail channel in Amazon (NSDQ: A… Read more at paidContent »
Hollywood Lambasts Sky Movies Ruling, But Open Access Gains Favour
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Six Hollywood studios have urged the UK’s competition watchdog to throw out its assertion their Sky Movies deals are anti-competitive. But s… Read more at paidContent »
After Starting Streaming Race, Starz Now Lags Behind HBO And Showtime
The evolution of premium cable TV beyond the living room took another step this week, with Showtime introducing a streaming app to rival HBO… Read more at paidContent »
What The Burst Of Hollywood A-Listers Will Mean For Online Video
Tom Hanks. Louis C.K. Lisa Kudrow. Kevin Spacey. David Fincher. Bill Maher. Jennifer Lopez. Judy Greer. Steven Van Zandt. Morgan Spurlock. E… Read more at paidContent »
Chinese Video Site Youku Makes Movie Deal With Twentieth Century Fox
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Chinese online video giant Youku (NYSE:YOKU) today announced that it has inked a deal with none other than Twentieth Century Fox (NSDQ: NWS)… Read more at paidContent »
Ultraviolet Movement Picks Up New Backer: Samsung
Samsung has rolled out a new line of Blu-ray players that support Ultraviolet, thus joining the ranks of entertainment brands that support t… Read more at paidContent »
The Bleeding In The Home Entertainment Business Slowed In 2011
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The home-entertainment business has been pummeled in recent years, with revenues falling for seven years in a row, in one year a full 8 perc… Read more at paidContent »
@CES: Samsung Hat-Tips Kinect On Smart TV Gesture Controls, Content Bonanza
Samsung, on a high after releasing some strong mobile numbers last week, today became the latest consumer electronics brand to hang its name… Read more at paidContent »
Can Tom Hanks Really Deliver The 'Comic-Con Crowd' For Yahoo?
Looking to ramp up star power for a push into original video content, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) formally announced Monday that it’s teaming with ac… Read more at paidContent »
Interview Part 2: Netflix's Hastings Hurt By Criticism But Over Transition
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings tells paidContent the company has emerged from the “pain” of a consumer and investor backlash, after… Read more at paidContent »
Interview Part 1: Netflix's Hastings Aims To Challenge BSkyB
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) fancies bidding against News Corp-controlled BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) for Hollywood movies and TV shows, even though internati… Read more at paidContent »
HMV Sees Physical Content Crash Slowing Down, Despite Christmas Crunch
HMV’s CEO says the slowdown in plastic music and movie sales is itself slowing down – even though its Christmas was nearly a tenth worse tha… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix Has Launched In UK, Price War With Amazon's Lovefilm
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) executives launched the service in the UK and Ireland on Monday morning with pricepoints of £5.99 ($7.79) and €6.99… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix Faces Higher Prices For HBO, Agrees To Doubled DVD Delays From WB
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is facing changes to its DVD business with two Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) programmers after months of CEO back-and-forth a… Read more at paidContent »
Disney-Comcast Strike Broad Cross-Platform Content Deal
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Xfinity TV subscribers stymied by the lack of access to iPad app WatchESPN have relief in sight: a new multi-year, cro… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix's 2 Billion Streaming Hours In Q4 Blows Away Competitors
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) subscribers appear to be spending far more time viewing the service’s streaming content than do users of any other onli… Read more at paidContent »
Online Video Sales Growing In China
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Online video is becoming a fast-growing business in China, as well as the west. Read more at paidContent »
Self-Published Authors Debate Amazon's KDP Select
When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library last month, it contained around 5,000 traditionally published titles. J… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook's Video Views Rising, But Mostly For Discovery
Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video – but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social netw… Read more at paidContent »
UltraViolet's First Web Channels Are Now Live, Now It's Going Global
The new technology allowing consumers who buy entertainment in physical formats to consume it online for no additional cost has gone live an… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix CEO Compares Company To Bank Of America And Oakland A's
Ouch. Reed Hastings addressed a room of investors and media experts today in a bid to reignite confidence in his company. After his curious… Read more at paidContent »
Report: Verizon Considering Web-Based Video Service Aimed At Netflix
Verizon plans to offer a Web-video streaming service in places where it doesn’t already operate its FIOS Internet TV service, according to a… Read more at paidContent »
BSkyB 'Perplexed' By On-Demand Movie Judgement
“We confess ourselves slightly perplexed,” BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) finance chief Andrew Griffith told Wall Street investors, when asked about the… Read more at paidContent »
BSkyB Could Be Forced To Host On-Demand Movie Rivals
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BSkyB’s set-top boxes may have to offer services like Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Lovefilm and Blinkbox alongside its own Sky Movies, under new pr… Read more at paidContent »
First Film Shot On A Smartphone Is About To Hit Movie Theaters
The first feature film shot entirely on a smartphone will have its theatrical premiere in Los Angeles on 16 December.
Olive, billed as a fi… Read more at paidContent »
Slideshow: The Future Of Movies According To Blinkbox And Tesco
Tesco will start retailing its own line of internet-enabled TV in stores under its Technika brand in the new year – amongst the many ways it… Read more at paidContent »
Tesco, Blinkbox Marry DVD, Online Movies Ahead Of Ultraviolet
When Tesco bought 80 percent of online PPV movie vendor Blinkbox in April, paidContent reported how the UK supermarket giant would give buy… Read more at paidContent »
Is The Feds' New PR Campaign Against Film Piracy Even Legal?
Federal law enforcement agents celebrated cyber-Monday in their own peculiar fashion by seizing 150 websites to go along with the 72 they ba… Read more at paidContent »
Interview: FilmFlex CEO To Netflix: Bring It On!
The UK PPV movie JV owned by Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Disney (NYSE: DIS) is on an aggressive expansion that will see it unleash up to 10 white l… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix's Global Funding Makes Sense — If It Can Rescue Domestic
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) shares opened four percent lower Tuesday after Monday’s after-market announcement that it is taking $400 million to fue… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix Will Rely On Rival Amazon's Cloud For Years To Come
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) may compete in online movie streaming – but the former plans to remain a customer of the latter… Read more at paidContent »
Twilight 'Breaking Dawn' Viewers Set Fandango Mobile Ticketing Record
The latest installment of the Twilight movies, Breaking Dawn, enjoyed one of the top-grossing opening weekends of all time (for some inexpli… Read more at paidContent »
