By adding a wealth of childrens’ programming to its instant streaming service, Netflix is focused on the next generation of online video viewers today. In its bid to win younger audiences, the company has added new streaming titles from Nickelodeon, PBS and Disney. Read more »
Netflix is finally making some of its streaming titles available in HD on the PC, a full 18 months after the subscription rental service first announced support for HD on the Xbox 360, Blu-ray players and other connected devices. Read more »
Netflix has enabled closed captions on a limited number of titles available through its Watch Instantly service, the company’s chief product officer, Neil Hunt, wrote in a blog post this morning. Closed captioning has long been one of the most requested features for the streaming service. […] Read more »
Nearly two-thirds of Netflix users that subscribe to broadband are now viewing the ‘Watch Instantly’ streaming video service and 8 percent view content exclusively on their TVs. I am among them and am convinced that Netflix has streaming video’s future figured out. Read more »
Netflix has been busy boosting the amount of content available through its Watch Instantly streaming service, adding 300 new titles from independent distributors The Criterion Collection, Gravitas Ventures, Kino Lorber, Music Box Films, Oscilloscope Laboratories and Regent Releasing. Adding just 300 titles may not sound like […] Read more »
It took Netflix four years — from 1999 to 2003 — to sign up its first million subscribers. But a continued push into streaming video online and the addition of multiple connected devices helped the subscription video rental company add a million new subscribers in the […] Read more »
Netflix’s access to streaming video content from Disney and might be limited come 2012, unless Starz can negotiate a deal that will keep the studio’s new release titles online, according to Bloomberg. That would comes as a huge blow to Netflix, which depends on Starz for […] Read more »
Netflix subscribers, after months of rumors, will soon be able to view its “Watch Instantly” streaming service on the Wii gaming console, the NY Times is reporting. But while the deal will open up the service to a whole new group of potential subscribers, there are […] Read more »
It seems Netflix has already reached a tipping point in the consumer electronics market, as it signed up five more CE manufacturers to enable its streaming services on their devices. Panasonic, Sanyo, Sharp, Toshiba and Funai (the CE maker behind the Philips, Magnavox, Sylvania and Emerson […] Read more »
Notice anything different when you went to Netflix today? If you logged on and were greeted with titles available through its “Watch Instantly” streaming video service, you weren’t alone — the company just switched up the order of its tabs to point users to its streaming […] Read more »
