While its longtime DVD-rental rival, Netflix has signaled its eventual retreat from the disc business, kiosk operator Redbox seems more than happy to take on any physical-media customers Netflix wants to cut loose. Read more »
It’s doubtful that the U.S. Supreme Court will ever hear digital movie server maker Kaleidescape’s case against the studio backers of DVD’s… Read more »
“Our industries do something that no one else can do,” the Motion Picture Association of America’s Fritz Attaway said at the Association of… Read more »
Don’t worry, we’ll work this out in time for the big dance. That is the essential message from top home entertainment officials who are stil… Read more »
We told you it was coming — and it did. Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) has formally announced its support for Hollywood’s struggling UltraViolet movi… Read more »
Yesterday, we suggested that video-rental chain Redbox might have to cave on its demand for 28-day release window with Universal, and wind u… Read more »
The last year has been pretty good to Redbox. The rental kiosk chain is about to embark on a new streaming venture with Verizon, and has bee… Read more »
The Blockbuster brand emerged from the ashes of bankruptcy to have an impact on the bottom line of its new owner, Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH).… Read more »
Investors have filed to settle a lawsuit that claims Coinstar wrongfully juiced its share price by failing to disclose that some studios had… Read more »
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) is rolling out a new streaming on-demand offering called Xfinity Streampix, which will bring more library content to s… Read more »
Universal Pictures put a lot of palms on foreheads this week when it announced that its summer comedy hit Bridesmaids has taken in $40 milli… Read more »
Delaying DVD and Blu-ray rental releases to outlets including Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Redbox made the magic of Harry Potter even more poten… Read more »
Offering perhaps the most defined threat to streaming movie leader Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) so far, Verizon and Redbox parent company Cointstar… Read more »
In the mid-2000s, a technology called Kaleidescape was all the rage among the Hollywood intelligensia. Fillmakers like Brett Ratner and high… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) fancies bidding against News Corp-controlled BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) for Hollywood movies and TV shows, even though internati… Read more »
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 »
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 »
Verizon is getting its full turn in the rumor mill. Last week, word had it that Verizon is looking to launch an OTT subscription service. Ne… Read more »
When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library last month, it contained around 5,000 traditionally published titles. J… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Lovefilm and even Sky Movies, be afraid. Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is reeling off its second exclusive studio deal as it prepares to launch in th… Read more »
It’s no secret that consumer electronics makers have long relied on content to help sell their devices. After all, people buy devices becaus… Read more »
As the bloodbath for Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) (NFLX) investors carries on, perhaps the CEO could boost a little confidence in the company if he… Read more »
Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) has refused to give DVD rentals chain Blockbuster (NSDQ: DISH) its latest films, including The Hangover Part II and… Read more »
Investors have continued to punish Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) for failing to meet expectations with yesterday’s disappointing Q3 earnings report,… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is on the road to profitability in Canada, but costs for its global roll-out are set to turn the company loss-making ne… Read more »
Following the disappointing Q3 results, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings dispensed with the usual earnings report overview that accomp… Read more »
Although Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has recently tried to make up for the PR disaster it fell into when it announced a major price hike for its DV… Read more »
After the market closes today Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) will release its highly anticipated Q3 results, which will lay bare the full consequences… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), which was already known to be planning a UK launch in its global expansion, has press-released an “early 2012″ launch… Read more »
Ahead of the coming connected TV opportunity, availability of movies through UK online services is still poor – and Lovefilm has amongst the… Read more »
Join us for paidContent Entertainment: Everything Everywhere event on November 3rd in West Hollywood, our one-day, fast-paced conference tha… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has locked in a full slate of teen angst from now through the 2014-15 season. The four-year pact covers full past seaso… Read more »
This category changes as fast we update charts. The latest shift: Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has abandoned plans to spin off its DVD-by-mail busin… Read more »
